The current updated model is also being thrown out there is the
AMX-10RCR which should be in the
French OOB.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...ian_tanks.html
https://www.armyrecognition.com/fren...icle_data.html
Uses the 105mm F2 DU munition developed in the mid 90's and
supposedly there is a more
very recent HEAT round it now has either exclusively or in combination to the F2 round.
Is
NOT amphibious so they could mount the add on steel armor you see in the pictures for protection against RPG's and similar HEAT weapons.
Has an extended turret bustle which is plain to see for "storage" of some kind.
"Infra-Red Counter Measure System (
LIRE), mounted on the forward part of the left side of the turret that has been designed to decoy and confuses anti-tank guided missiles (ATGW) with semi-automatic command-to-line-of-sight guidance (
SACLOS) system."
"A bank of
four Gallix grenade launchers is mounted to each side of the main armament, in front of the turret. This can launch a wide range of series of grenades such as smoke,
anti-personnel, and decoy." (
I know I know but this is a newer ref. than when Gallix "bounced back into our universe a few years back again.)
There's more in the "
Tech Data" section certainly is better than the base
AMX-10RC.
Other tanks or if you will "I like it when I'm right once in a while."...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...o_ukraine.html
(Just read the last para.)
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...tle_tanks.html
(Para 5 covers BOTH of these issues.)
We're going to see much more of this "
stuff" for a long while.
For now,
I'm just happy I beat these guys by 2 or 3 days.
Maybe I should apply for a job as an Anal-list 
To the other thing, three of the last five tanks that Russia "
donated" (Articles are even using that term but I believe they're being
in doing so!?!) I came across a "
linkage issue" as all military equipment has a "
hierarchy"
I've been chasing a "
ghost tank" as it appears to be in the OOB but shown as a
T-72B1M.
That tank was the
T-72B2 you might remember as the
T-72 Rogatka which was how it was named I believe at the time when we rightly
DELETED it.
Sites show it "
now" as the
T-72B2 Rogatka. One of my sites says Russia has 300 of them. But
EVERYONE else is saying this tank was just
too expensive to build.
So, the Russians decided to come up with a new tank the
T-72B3.
This tank incorporated many subsystems of the
T-72B2 but on systems such as the
FCS especially it wasn't as good (
On B3).
Unless you still have that data for the
T-72 ROGATKA, my intention is now to rename the two
T-72B1M (Closest match from a couple of sites was the
T-72B1MS "White Eagle" export tank.) to the
T-72B3.
Currently on my screen I have the
OPLOT-M, T-90, T-90A, T-723(M), T-72BM, T-72B1M, T-80BV and T-80BVM up on it as I've had for 3 days now.
The
numbers and
hierarchy with a couple of minor tweaks just looks right to me now and the "mystery" is to my mind solved.
But this is where I was before myself and my partners, ME and I were before we together realized something wasn't making sense.
RUSSIA/CHANGE/T-72BM/UNIT 037/RENAME/T-72B3/START/JUN 2013 VICE JAN 1997/VISION 40 VICE 30/MG 125mm 2A46M-5 VICE 125mm GUN 91(?)//A very easy comparison against the current
Russian T-73B3 UNIT 697 should “
clear up” any doubts along with the below ref. of this change.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/russ...act_sheet.html
UKRAINE/ADD/T-72B3 (83) +/COPY/RUSSIAN REVISED UNIT 037/PVR MAR07-DEC01 2022/START AUG 2022/NEAR PEER/UKRAINIAN UNIT 042 & 043. //
How wrong "we" were. 
Half measures are
unacceptable to me.
If you need answers, look to what happened at
NAS Corpus Christi, Tx about 2-3 years ago.
https://news.usni.org/2020/05/21/sho...er-neutralized
But don't worry I have "
fun" at work though another guard on the shift has compared me to a "
CYLON CENTURIAN" from the original
Battlestar Galactica with the "
roving" red eyes constantly scanning. I think that's a compliment!?! Too bad we don't have one of those EM-ME-G-MOES out here.
Since I didn't get to bed until 0400 this morning after work and our grandson was with us for a couple days before starting his sophomore year at
SCAD I'll get back to it tomorrow now that the
path forward is clear.
Regards,
Pat
