AFV Recognition

Challenger 1’s and CVRT’s of the 17th/21st Lancers in an aerial photograph with the tanks forming the shape of the ‘motto’ of the regiment, see image 2 for reference. Challenger 1’s form the outlines of the skull and crossbones, the eyes of the skull formed by the regimental 2iC (Second in Command) and one of the Squadron Leaders. The nose of the skull is formed by the CO’s tank with 2x CVRT Sultan command vehicles on the flanks. The teeth of the skull being formed by the REME LAD (light aid detachment) with Chieftain ARV’s (armoured recovery vehicles), finally with Recce Troop’s CVRT’s forming the majority of the motto banner. Unlike other armies, the British Army utilises regiment/squadron/troop nomenclature for tank/cavalry units, as do many other commonwealth nations, rather than the usual battalion/company/platoon terms used by other countries.

T-80UD/T-80BV/T-80B and more at the 206th Armored Repair Plant in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, Far East Russia, 2006. This Armored Plant would go bankrupt just 6 years later.

@RobCharltir5 @agbdrilling No problem, thanks for the info. I’ve sent you a private message

@AFVRec_ @agbdrilling Soltau in the Summer was like a mud desert at times. I just cant remember exactly where the brick was taken though, sorry.

British Army🇬🇧 Tank Regiment, Cold War

@RobCharltir5 @agbdrilling Ah, colours looked very BATUS-esque. I’m assuming the ‘nose’ of the skull here is the CO’s tac group given the tank is flanked by 2x Sultans, which C/S’s formed the skulls eyes?

@AFVRec_ @agbdrilling No, in West Germany

@RobCharltir5 @agbdrilling Is this in BATUS?

@agbdrilling My Regiment 1980s

A Ukrainian 🙂T-64BV. Taken during the ATO phase in 2014.

Pictured: Alvis Streaker, based on the CVR(T), a lightweight tracked load carrier. Do we need something like this now, a modern day universal carrier?

Chieftain Mk.10 of the Berlin Armoured Squadron that had an accident with a car in Smuts Barracks, Spandau District, West Berlin.

@thinkdefence How else would the humble command troop justify its existence other than mass clusters of tents, camouflage nets and 432’s?

Think small command posts based on tentage and trailers need to be confined to the history books

@T_90AK Good spot

Original T-72 Ural in Service with DPR troops in October of 2015. Interestingly it's had the original TPN-1-49-23 night sight replaced with the newer TPN-3-49 seen on T-72A/B1.

Images of Not a common vehicle, the British Army M270 repair and recovery variant

@T_90AK Beautiful

@AFVRec_ Check this out.

LPR "T-64AV" and T-64BV's being withdrawn to Luhansk, October 2015. (Ive removed all the nonsense, so it's just tank footage and that glorious lawnmower engine sound).

@rhwtac Sent you a DM of one that’s for sale

Has anyone encountered these camouflage suits?

Captured T-64's of the 36th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade before being transferred back to Ukraine from Crimea, 2014.

Russian May 9th Rehearsal and Parade Thread - March to May 2026 1) Two T-72B3 Obr.2025 at a Yekaterinburg Parade Rehearsal.

@AMK_Mapping_ Surely they’d have dug in MG positions like that by now and made it somewhat more defendable

Visual evidence of a continued Ukrainian presence on Snake Island in the Black Sea. These are soldiers of the volunteer Karelian Group "Nord".

@Daidalos2047 I’m not sure on ZBD-04A control panels, but in my experience the driver controls the exhaust smoke from his control panel whereas the commander and/or gunner control the smoke grenade dischargers from their respective control panels.

@AFVRec_ Something I want to note here: Heavy white smoke means it was already doing exhaust-fuel injection as a functional demonstration. Either the mechanics did something wrong when wiring that smoke wall button with smoke grenades or the control panel of both sits on the same tableu

Chinese ZBD-04A IFV on a demonstration exercise accidentally discharges a smoke grenade into a mound full of observers, likely officers and politicians.

@TongLianheng I think it was a malfunction given that only a single grenade fired, generally smoke grenades are fired in banks (left or right) at the commanders discretion. At least in my experience anyway.

@AFVRec_ Looks AI, that looks nothing like how smoke grenades explode. Smoke grenades are designed to shoot into the air and explode in air to create a smoke curtain. That footage looks like a simulation of a mortar round.