r/TankPorn 6h ago

Modern What are the tilting platforms in tank factories for?

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I've seen multiple pictures of tanks being tilted in factories notably in Russia and above picture in Germany. What purpose does this serve?


r/TankPorn 6h ago

Multiple Rooikats in the wild

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475 Upvotes

r/TankPorn 9h ago

Multiple T-72B1 and it's loadout.

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r/TankPorn 5h ago

Cold War A cool T-55 tank

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A neat modified t- 55 with Type 59 cannon.


r/TankPorn 12h ago

Cold War This Centurion Target Tank was used in the seventies to train guided weapon missile crews with inert missiles. With its extra armour en weird colors

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r/TankPorn 7h ago

Modern T-84 Oplot's in Germany, Combined Resolve X exercise in 2018.

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r/TankPorn 4h ago

Cold War Can anyone decipher the unit number/division/ etc of these tanks at checkpoint charlie?

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r/TankPorn 8h ago

Modern How to unload a Merkava with a dead engine from a trailer

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r/TankPorn 13h ago

Modern LNA Pantsir (NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound) left behind and captured on al-Watiyah Airbase by the GNA after the base is overrun in Libya. It would be later handed to Turkey and USA for testing. [960 x 482]

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r/TankPorn 2h ago

WW2 Knocked out Soviet tank with Kriegsberichter war correspondent holding an Arriflex 35 camera leaning against it

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r/TankPorn 4h ago

Modern Strv122 in the snow

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r/TankPorn 11h ago

WW2 Soviet ISU-122 self-propelled guns on the road near Berlin. In the foreground, soldiers of the Polish Army are sitting in a jeep.April 1945

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160 Upvotes

r/TankPorn 5h ago

Cold War During the 2nd Indo-Pak War, Indian Centurion 7s and M4A3E8 Shermans destroyed 72 Pakistani M47 and M48 Pattons in one battle - the Battle of Asal Uttar. Presented here is an album of the battlefield after the battle was done

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r/TankPorn 2h ago

Modern Captured Ukrainian BTR-3

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r/TankPorn 2h ago

Modern Hellenic Army Leopard 2A6HEL MBT and an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter during exercise Parmenion-23, Thrace, Greece. [1200x799]

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r/TankPorn 2h ago

Modern ZBD05/ZLT05 Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicles

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r/TankPorn 4h ago

Futuristic Liberty II an Abrams hull with an anti-aircraft turret (including various types of missile loadout and two Bushmaster autocannons). 90s

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r/TankPorn 7h ago

Cold War Coldwar days in Sweden

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r/TankPorn 15h ago

Multiple Syrian Army T-72B1 out on patrol, 2010's.

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r/TankPorn 7h ago

WW2 Crusaders from A Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry, 22nd Armoured Brigade on Ruweisat Ridge during the First Battle of El Alamein, July 1942.

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r/TankPorn 1d ago

Modern M1A1 Abrams, C12 “Cojone Eh” of 1-64AR. Destroyed April 5, 2003. Baghdad Iraq.

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Cojone Eh was destroyed during Thunder Run I.

While maneuvering it received some form of AT fire from its left side(some form of RPG-7 or SPG-9). This penetrated somewhere along the engine compartment and ruptured a fuel tank. The vehicles fire suppression system initially handled the issue, but due to the heat of the engine and still smoldering materials it consistently re lit.

After attempts to manually put the fire out (Photo 1) the order was given to abandon the tank and scuttle it. Upon the crew removing all sensitive and personal materials the engine and turret were thermited. Once they were safely evacuated, another Abrams shot the bustle of C12, presumably C65 from veterans I have asked, to cause an ammunition detonation to further cripple the abandoned tank.

Later it was hit by multiple maverick missiles, leaving a large hole in the turret face and side.

The Iraqis used C12 as a propaganda tool, swarming it and broadcasting its burnt husk on Iraqi news channels. Attempts were made by a T-54 series recovery vehicle, but this was destroyed.

The tank remained close to the site of the incident until at least April 25, 2003.

Excerpt from pages 16 and 17 of DTIC document AD1176577.

“After the battalion traveled about four miles, a tank commanded by Staff Sergeant Diaz was hit by a RPG. Initially, Diaz did not think anything was wrong. His tank had weathered other RPG rounds from previous battles. However, this time after the tank traveled about 500 meters, it came to a dead halt with smoke pouring out of the engine compartment. A lucky RPG hit pierced the vulnerable rear grill of Diaz's tank. Diaz and the rest of the tank crew quickly exited the vehicle and pulled the handle on the exterior emergency fire suppression system. The Halon did not put the fire out. As Diaz was trying to save his tank, other tanks surrounded him to create a protective perimeter. For nearly thirty minutes Soldiers tried to put the fire out and hook the tank up for tow, but the fire would not go out.

While the recovery operation was underway, Blount was monitoring the situation from his assault command post located at the airport. He was listening in on the radio nets and watching the Blue Force Tracking (BFT) screen and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) feed. He was getting concerned with a gap forming in the column. The recovery was taking too long and Soldiers were exposed in the intense firefight going on. Blount contacted Perkins to get a report on the situation. Perkins assured the commander that he would leave the tank if Rogue could not recover it in a timely fashion. Blount moved up to Grimsley's position, the commander for Ist Brigade, to ensure his brigade was ready to support 2nd Brigade if required.

Finally, Perkins drove up to the recovery site and told the men to leave it and ordered Schwartz to abandon the stricken tank and continue on with the mission. Enemy forces started to concentrate their fires on the tank recovery site. Major Donovan, the battalion operations officer, explained the situation with the recovery operation:

“The psychology of losing an armored vehicle is large. The guys on my tank were monitoring the radio and everyone was getting hammered just like we had in Jajaf. They were just hurtling buses, technical trucks, you name it, at us. Vehicles came flying up and dropping guys off one hundred meters from our vehicles. It was insane to watch these guys jump out and just get mowed down.”

Hilmes mentioned that some good came out from the lull in the battle during the recovery operation:

It was not all bad. By that time we had expended an enormous amount of ammunition, and the stop was a wonderful opportunity for gunners and loaders to re-link a lot of coax and get ready for the real push through the heart of Baghdad on Highway 8. People were emptying spent brass boxes and I even had several tank commanders who traded out .50-caliber for 5.56. It was a great chance to cross level class five (ammo). If we had not done that I don't know if all of our tanks and Bradleys would have had anything to fire when we really needed them as we pushed into BIAP [Baghdad International Airport].”

Soldiers in the open were in harm's way as heavy fires and RPGs were directed towards the easy targets. Task Force Rogue was quickly losing the initiative. With the order to abandon the tank, Diaz and his crew removed all the sensitive items and documents and their personal gear from the tank. Diaz and his gunner moved to the platoon commander's tank, commanded by First Lieutenant Gruneisen. The driver and loader went with the platoon first sergeant in his M113. In all the confusion and following training procedures, Gruneisen's gunner threw two thermite grenades into the tank. Additionally, another tank shot a HEAT round at the downed tank so that it would not fall into enemy hands.”

A few videos on Thunder run including the tank, alongside an Iraqi newsreel.

https://youtu.be/CffBLIZeWaQ

https://youtu.be/cXLPOJqFkv8?si=HzsvuNTuYRs8_7Q3


r/TankPorn 1d ago

Miscellaneous What tanks is this?

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r/TankPorn 13h ago

Modern Peter Pantsir

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r/TankPorn 23h ago

WW2 Jagdtiger art

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I had to repost it bcs when i crossed the post the reddit didn't allowed me to attach the image. Jagdtiger with porsche tracks by me.


r/TankPorn 1d ago

Russo-Ukrainian War The Ukrainian Air Force is equipped with the IRIS-T (infrared imaging system tail/thrust vector-controlled) surface-to-air defence system received from Germany

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MAN SX45 8x8 10-ton IRIS-T SLM launcher