tejas warrior
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How did you got these pictured on google Earth ? Interested to see what's on other side.TWO TANK REGIMENTS RIGHT ON LAC.View attachment 13072 View attachment 13073
How did you got these pictured on google Earth ? Interested to see what's on other side.TWO TANK REGIMENTS RIGHT ON LAC.View attachment 13072 View attachment 13073
Wrong place!!The lone Soviet tank
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KV-1 or KV-2 tank (accounts vary) advanced far behind the German lines after attacking a column of German trucks. The tank stopped on a road across soft ground and was engaged by four 50 mm anti-tank guns of the 6th Panzer Division's anti-tank battalion. The tank was hit multiple times by these guns but fired back, disabling all four guns. A heavy 88 mm gun of the division's anti-aircraft battalion was moved about 730 metres (800 yd) behind the tank but was knocked out by the tank before it could score a hit.
During the night, German combat engineers attempted to destroy the tank with satchel charges, but were unable to, despite possibly damaging the tracks. Early on the morning of 25 June, German tanks fired on the KV from the woodland while an 88 mm targeted the tank from its rear. Of several shots fired, only two penetrated the tank. German infantry then advanced, with the KV opening machine-gun fire against them.
The tank's resistance was finally ended by grenades thrown into the tank's hatches. According to some accounts, the crew was buried by the German soldiers with full military honors.
General Erhard Raus was Commander of the 6th Panzer Division's Kampfgruppe,[f] the unit delayed by the lone vehicle. He described it as a KV-1, which was damaged by several 88anti-tank gun shots fired from behind the vehicle while it was distracted by Panzer 35(t) tanks from Panzer Battalion 65, and the KV-1 crew were killed by pioneer engineer unit who pushed grenades through two holes made by the gun while the turret began moving again, the other five or six shots having not fully penetrated. Apparently, the KV-1 crew had remarkably only been stunned by the shots which had entered the turret. Afterwards, they were buried nearby with military honors by the German unit
All open source information, recently media persons were also taken to these places by Indian Army.How did you got these pictured on google Earth ? Interested to see what's on other side.
Are tanks even relevant in mordern warfare. I mean heavy use of rocket artillery in battlefield will make any area a graveyard of tanks. Rather than wasting money on russian tanks, we should go for HIMARS type light rockets which can be towed in pickup trucks to destroy huge areas. Pinaka itself can be converted to HIMARS type system . I read a report by a western battlefield expert commenting on NATO Russian battlefield who concluded that tanks are useless and rocket artillery is the way forward.
Western think tanks at a time had emphasized on fighters without canon and only with BVR missiles. This backfired so much that till date they are developing stealth fighter with powerful internal canon along with improved ammo.There are several reasons why missiles cannot replace rockets . I do not want to go into those but I am telling you the the thinking in Western defence think tanks which is that tanks are now obsolete in modern battlefield like cavalry of yore.
On one hand you are talking about an invasion on China and Pak and on other hand you are talking about tank battle in Syria. Why only Syria, US tanks got hit even in Iraq. But had this been case in Afghanistan?The recent experience of Turkey with ISIS wherein Turks have lost dozens of Leopard 2 tanks to light rockets to my mind is a smoking gun that tanks indeed are on way out of modern battlefield. If we develop cheap truck mounted MBRLs, we can build thousands upon thousands of those for price of an armored corps. The shock and awe it will have on paki and chinese armored force will be enormous. Instead we are spending 3 billion on more useless russian tanks.
a weapon is as good as the user , without proper doctrines, tactics and training even the most powerful tank will end up getting blown up.The recent experience of Turkey with ISIS wherein Turks have lost dozens of Leopard 2 tanks to light rockets to my mind is a smoking gun that tanks indeed are on way out of modern battlefield. If we develop cheap truck mounted MBRLs, we can build thousands upon thousands of those for price of an armored corps. The shock and awe it will have on paki and chinese armored force will be enormous. Instead we are spending 3 billion on more useless russian tanks.
Shtora (Pak VATRA) was discarded for Indian T 90S because its not effective in protecting sides/ Rear and newer ATGM such as TOW 2A version which emits coded signal.
Pak Army has Tow 2A, also Tow 2B (top attack variant) and possibly the RF variants.
So, Instead of Shtora there is additional ERA penal on latest version T 90MS
OTOH Russian Arena E, LEDS 150 and Israeli Trophy are too costly. DRDO own APS might be 5000 years away so possibly they will go for "co develop" with any foreign firm.
Whereas, Paki VARTA APS on their Al khalids, although obsolete and nothing but big IR searchlights are good enough for our older Milans, Fagot and Konkurs ATGM
Such type of APS were tested but failed in Indian Trials. Instead we have additional ERA penal on our Tanks as in the above Russian T 90MS
Sorry i wanted to say that it was never ordered by IndiaIt was never discarded but never added on first place