The network discusses a photo of a Russian tank in the USA: versions of its appearance

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An extremely interesting photograph appeared on foreign military forums. It captures a technique similar to the Russian T-90 tank on a trailer. At the same time, it is noted that transportation is carried out throughout the United States.

Naturally, such a photo cannot but cause questions from both foreign and Russian audiences. After all, the T-90 is the main model tankscurrently used in the Ground Forces of the RF Armed Forces. And even more interesting is how a combat vehicle could get into the USA.



A photo of the tank that entered service with the Russian army in 1993, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was published, among others, by the thematic Defense Blog. But the authors could not answer the question about the origin of the photo. However, a hunch is voiced that this may be a model of a tank for more effective preparation of American soldiers for a possible meeting with this combat vehicle in an armed conflict.

According to one version, a mock-up made on the basis of the T-72 and used in the American army during military exercises to personify tanks of a potential enemy could be transported by truck. Americans widely use such models in their maneuvers to make them more realistic.

The network discusses a photo of a Russian tank in the USA: versions of its appearance

According to a number of commentators, the version of the layout is in favor of the fact that the visible elements of the Blind optical-electronic counteraction complex are not like the real ones. On the command tower there are no visible elements of the closed anti-aircraft machine-gun mount and the monitoring device TKN-4C.

As you know, the T-90 tank is produced by Uralvagonzavod. In addition to the Russian ground forces, the tank is in service with the armies of Algeria, Vietnam, India, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Uganda and Iraq. The largest number of combat vehicles, in addition to Russia, is operated by India, which still continues to order these tanks from Russia. By the way, deliveries of T-90 to Egypt are also expected.

Given the extensive list of countries in whose armies the T-90 is armed, it is possible that the American side could acquire this tank from any of the third countries. For example, in the same Iraq, American troops have been hosting for almost two decades. On the other hand, the tank was actively used during the civil war in Syria, where also one of the vehicles could fall into the hands of the Americans.

However, there are more skeptical versions. According to one of them, a tank transported on a trailer may be the props of one of the new feature films and have nothing to do with real combat vehicles. Moreover, in many American films, older Russian tanks more than once played the role of modern ones. The directors of action-packed action films in Hollywood usually do not follow the reliability and compliance with real prototypes.

It is also possible that photography may turn out to be a photo fake at all, editing in order to create a sensation. In the "society of the play" such a version also has every right to exist.

In any case, regardless of what the subject was captured by an unknown photographer, there is no doubt that the US military is showing increased interest in modern Russian weapons and military equipment. For many secrets at the Pentagon would be willing to pay a lot of money. Indeed, it is Russia that is today considered by the United States as the most likely adversary, along with China, and in the field of development and production of military equipment, our country is still a key competitor to the United States.
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  1. +7
    11 February 2020 19: 29
    We bought Aboriginal coins from weak for ringing from .... Algeria, Vietnam, India, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Uganda, Iraq and India .... But one of them sold muddy mud ...
    1. +11
      11 February 2020 19: 30
      Based on the old T-72, they wrapped plywood and painted it.
      1. -2
        11 February 2020 19: 45
        Yes, probably. The department of decorations and commercials works best in their defense industry wink To the detriment of everything else
    2. +2
      11 February 2020 19: 41
      It’s more interesting if trophies with BV were taken out by us from Abrams, leopards and others .. There a lot of this stuff was tampered with ..
    3. +16
      11 February 2020 19: 43
      Quote: 30 vis
      We bought Aboriginal coins from weak for ringing from .... Algeria, Vietnam, India, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Uganda, Iraq and India .... But one of them sold muddy mud ...

      I don’t know what they were selling, but what the US bought was NOT T-90 .... !!!
      1. +5
        11 February 2020 19: 52
        hi The tower does not match the epaulette. wink
        1. +11
          11 February 2020 20: 09
          Quote: Tank jacket
          The tower does not match the epaulette.

          I don’t know, there are many other things, which shows that this is a rough alteration or a Slovak or Polish T-72, under "anyhow it looks like a T-90"
          1. +4
            11 February 2020 20: 15
            I also think that this is 72.
            1. +5
              11 February 2020 20: 17
              Quote: Tank jacket
              I also think that this is 72.

              Yes, there "do not go to the fortuneteller," the commander's cupola, sights, tracks are all T-72.
              1. 0
                11 February 2020 20: 24
                Chuyka tells me that this particular tank is also wrecked. Or a mine was blown up.
              2. +1
                11 February 2020 20: 27
                They shot it around with T-72 plywood, and there were no comic debates on the VO. The bone is thrown and then it began ... something unimaginable.
          2. +11
            11 February 2020 20: 28
            Quote: svp67
            Slovak or Polish T-72, under "anyhow it looks like T-90"

            They try, before that it was funnier.
    4. +1
      11 February 2020 21: 42
      Bought ?! traded for beads.
    5. -2
      11 February 2020 21: 54
      Chubaty forgot
    6. +1
      12 February 2020 01: 59
      They bought, well, let them admire, they heaped green paper. While these candy wrappers are in demand, the United States can buy a lot of people and tanks.
  2. -4
    11 February 2020 19: 31
    traitors everywhere! sad angry
  3. +1
    11 February 2020 19: 47
    Hack, the tower protrudes high from the hull.
  4. -4
    11 February 2020 19: 48
    The story went almost smoothly and calmly. But in the last paragraphs, the author did not change himself and made a profound conclusion about "the society of the performance" and "no doubt." In the morning Polonsky knocks down Tomahawks with Prometheus in the Mediterranean, and in the evening he exposes fake photos from unknown resources. Mnogostanochnik, in one word)
    1. +1
      12 February 2020 07: 55
      And yesterday, Polonsky was a historian.
  5. -1
    11 February 2020 19: 57
    yes layout. Americans have repeatedly made models of our technology
  6. +2
    11 February 2020 19: 59
    Most likely T-72 with body kit, IMHO.
    1. +4
      11 February 2020 21: 07
      Not with a body kit, but with a buckthorn. Shorter stucco molding from foam.
      1. +1
        12 February 2020 02: 09
        It is enough to recall our films about the Second World War, where the Tiger body kit was molded on our equipment, and it was visible on the rinks. But for the audience it’s going to be who will watch there in the battle scene, what rinks the Tygr has)))
  7. -3
    11 February 2020 20: 25
    Most likely a movie. The Americans don't bother too much with equipment for their ground "aggressors" - this tank is too good (only the person who chops in the BTT will see the difference).
  8. +11
    11 February 2020 20: 26
    But what exactly is the impossibility of the appearance of the T-90 tank in the USA?
    More than fifty T-90S / SK delivered by us to Iraq. I think about the presence of Americans in this country is not worth recalling.

    1. +3
      11 February 2020 21: 04
      Does anyone who categorically minuses, truly believes that thanks to his efforts here, the tank will magically leave forever the territory of our American partners?
      1. +1
        11 February 2020 21: 10
        Minusory, they are. Peremptory and most likely brainless. Evidence of this minus without comment. And the comment most likely the pan interferes, sinks into the eyes.
        1. -5
          11 February 2020 21: 47
          Dasha, you were subjected to a backing track for canstation of an obvious fact;)
  9. +3
    11 February 2020 20: 31
    I admit that the photo is real.
    Because the rules for the transportation of overweights and oversize require a certain entourage - it is fully observed!
    clearance flags, flashing yellow flashing lights - there are strobe lights, a special yellow "oversized load" strip is present, although it is wrapped up - but it is visible.

    About the weight.
    47 tons is a permissible weight on common roads of the USA with a previously issued permit - i.e. resolution.
    3 axles on the "low" trailer plus three rear axles on the tractor and everything is permitted.

    tanks in the usa are fumbling on such trailers.
    And yes. the shape of the lowboy trailer just conceals from 30 to 50 cm in height.


    1. -1
      11 February 2020 21: 17
      In vain you so confidently insist on a real presence in the frame of the T-90 tank.
      Please read the comments above, it is also clearly said that this is a plywood model based on the T-72 tank and even with incorrectly reproduced proportions, components and assemblies. laughing
    2. 0
      12 February 2020 02: 14
      Entourage, as you said, is applicable to all oversized cargo, whether it is a tank or a model of a tank!
  10. -1
    11 February 2020 20: 42
    Or maybe they ... are interested in tank biathlon?
  11. +3
    11 February 2020 21: 32
    Everything is for sale. In the morning - money, for lunch - chairs.
  12. +1
    12 February 2020 05: 30
    I do not understand the subject of controversy! After all the presence of a new Soviet tank in the United States would be a sensation in Soviet times, and after the Yeltsinoids, at the very beginning of their "holy 90s", easily sold the Americans a secret T-80 (just for an attempt to photograph which in Germany, a too zealous German journalist was shot by our Soviet watch-warrior GSVG!) and other armored vehicles-this is NOT a sensation! request
    Closed ZPU (finally, less than 50 years later, disputed by the Urals on their improved T-72-Russian T-90, similar to that in the Soviet T-64 tank of the 60-70s!) And the commander's TKN are blocked on one turret the commander’s hatch of the T-90 tower and are dismantled even in the field, there’s nothing complicated (our Soviet tanks were distinguished by increased maintainability even by the crew!). Apparently the protruding ZPU interfered with transportation, so the Yankees removed it so that it would not cling, and maybe then they would install it again ?!
    And to buy or seize this Russian tank, which is in service with many amerodollar-dependent countries and is fighting against pro-American terrorists, is not a problem for monopoly issuers of green cut paper! They could easily afford to transport an entire column of "non-fancy" T-90s, but they are taking only one somewhere, and this is such a surprise ?!
  13. +2
    12 February 2020 06: 49
    The directors of action-packed action films in Hollywood usually do not follow the reliability and compliance with real prototypes.
    Just the opposite. The weapons in the films are very well represented, time does not matter. A very large number of real, restored equipment in private collections, from small arms to
    aircraft in working condition.
  14. 0
    12 February 2020 07: 41
    Syrian moderates shared with the "owners".
  15. +2
    12 February 2020 08: 34
    Interestingly, and in the vastness of Russia you can see the American "Abrasha"?
    It would be useful to shoot at it at some training ground with existing and promising ammunition.
    See how he will feel ...
    One thing is theory, and here is a gobbling practice! love
    1. 0
      12 February 2020 13: 08
      Quote: Paul Siebert
      It would be useful to shoot at it at some training ground with existing and promising ammunition.

      What for? They shoot at ours - it’s cheaper and then recycling will be easier.
      Quote: Paul Siebert
      See how he will feel ...

      It will feel the same way as our wrecked tank, only ours has more chances to survive due to the fact that we overtook them in tank building.
      Quote: Paul Siebert
      One thing is theory, and here is a gobbling practice!

      One transportation will cost a pretty penny, so this is an empty undertaking, if only because there are means of hitting tanks in the stern from above, and this is the weak point of all tanks.
  16. 0
    16 February 2020 16: 34
    Russian tanks arrived in America to maintain democracy in their country!

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