AFV Recognition

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From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:17:57 GMT

Subject: Re: AFV Recognition

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> BTW, there's a set of vehicle recognition tests on-line at

There was one I could have sworn was an IKV-91 (wasn't, was some type of
T-some
thing
I imagine), but otherwise 29/30, allowing max of 1 sec to answer each.

Of course the days when you could say Western=Friend, Eastern=Foe are long
gone
.
Kuwaitis use T-72s not Vickers MBTs, There's a whole load of BTRs in
various
marks in NATO now, and the Mi-8 is becoming quite ubiquitous. So the
Friend/Foe
bit just tests my Cold War Reflexes *shrug*.

> but only 33 of 40 in the naming tests.

32 for me.

> My chronic inability to tell the difference between the various

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:33:28 -0400

Subject: Re: AFV Recognition

> >BTW, there's a set of vehicle recognition tests on-line at
Oerjan said:
> >FWIW, when I first tried them I had one error (of 30 possible <g>) in

AEBrain replied:
> There was one I could have sworn was an IKV-91 (wasn't, was some type

Piffle. I went through Jane's this evening, looking at over 100 ships, and got
100% of them right.
...
...
...
"That's an aircraft carrier. Submarine. Carrier. Some kind of escort. Cruiser.
Another sub."
<g>

From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>

Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:36:46 +0100

Subject: Re: AFV Recognition

> Alan Brain wrote:

> Probably the M-84 (picture taken directly from the side, and with not

You don't? <g> That's OK; I won't either in a few years... not sure if it'll
be replaced at all, but if so the CV90120 is the main contender.

> Nor M-84s for that matter.

> Now Type 59s, 69-Is, 69-IIs etc are a different matter.

> Yep. The page recognises that too (fortunately <g>)... I suspect that

The Black Eagle is rumoured to be out of favour with the Russian army.. has
anyone actually deployed it yet?

OTOH, NATO's various new allies from the former Warsaw Pact all operate
various T-somethings, so nowaday's it's "square turret = ours, round
turret = probably ours"...

> Yes... he didn't give any NATO designations exept for the HIND-D, did

<g>

> One thing that's almost vaguely on-topic: the design for the Combine

Yep. I suspect it's easier to aim with a grav tank, though :-/

Later,