Vehicle Recognition

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Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank

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120mm L30 CHARM Rifled main armament
1x 7.62 Coaxial Machine Gun
1x 7.62 General Purpose Machine Gun mounted on the loaders cupola (Not modelled in DCS)
10x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers (5 each side of the main armament)

Very easy to recognise by:
The thermal imager sat just above the barrel
6x Road Wheels per track, drive sprocket at the rear and idler wheel under the front mudguard.
The distinctive "British" round headlights used by most British army AFV's

M1A2 Abrams

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120mm Main Armament
1x 7.62 Coaxial Machine Gun
1x 12.7mm Commanders Machine Gun
10x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers (5 each side of the main armament)

Very easy to recognise by:
7x Road wheels per track smaller in comparison with Challenger 2
Frontal sloped armour is "Clean" either side of the Main armament
Has outside "bar armour" style storage around the sides and rear of the turret.

Leopard 2

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120mm Main Armament
7.62 MG3 Coaxial Machine Gun
7.62 MG3 Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
8x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
8x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers either side at the rear of the turret
7x Road wheels evenly spaced per track
Very distinctive V-shaped front turret armour (Mostly seen on Russian T-series tanks and the Israeli Merkava)
The rear of the vehicle is very short in comparison to other NATO tanks

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Merkava Mk IV

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120mm Main Armament (ATGM capability)
2x 7.62mm Machine Guns
1x 12.7mm Machine Gun
1x 60mm Internal Mortar
12x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers (6 each side of the turret roof)

Very easy to recognise by:
"V-Shaped" Turret
12x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers (6 each side, high on the turret roof)
Short barrel with the fume extractor at the rear
Overall very short vehicle length

Leopard 1A3

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105mm Royal Ordinance L7A3 L/52 Rifled Gun
7.62 MG3 Coaxial Machine Gun
7.62 MG3 Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
8x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
Quite a high and squared turret shape
4x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers mid way along the turret sides
Big and rectangular exhausts at the rear of the vehicle

T-55

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100mm D-10T Rifled Main Armament
1x 7.62mm SGMT Coaxial Machine Gun
1x 12.7mm DShK Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun

Very easy to recognise by:
Rounded Turret seen on a lot of Russian MBT's up to the T80U
Fume extractor at the very front of the barrel
5x Road wheels, drive sprocket at the real with a front idler - prominent gap between front pair of road wheels.

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T-72B

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125mm 2A46M Main Armament
1x 7.62mm PKT Coaxial Machine Gun
1x 12.7mm NSVT Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
8x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
Fume Extractor mid way down the barrel
"Frying pan" style turret shape
8x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers all on left hand side of the turret
Reactive armour blocks all over the vehicle body

T-80U

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125mm 2A46M Main Armament
1x 7.62mm PKT Coaxial Machine Gun
8x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
Drivers has 3x periscopes, mounted slightly high and central between the headlights
4x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers either side of the turret facing forward
"Frying pan" style turret shape
Snorkel mounted to the rear of the turret for storage

T-90

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125mm 2A46M Smootbore Main Armament
1x 7.62mm PKT Coaxial Machine Gun
1x 12.7mm NSVT Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
1x 9K119M "Reflex-M" ATGM
10x Multi barrel smoke grenade dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
"SHTORA" defense system mouthed either side of the Main armament (the two black "eyes" either side of the gun) this is to disrupt incoming lasers and rangefinders.
"V-Shaped Turret" now introduced to this era of Russian T-series MBT
Still has the snorkel mount at the rear of the tanks turret
very low profile in comparison to other Russian MBT's

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MCV-80 Warrior

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30mm L21A1 Cannon
1x 7.62mm L94A1 Coaxial Machine Gun
8x Multi Barrel Smoke Grenade Dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
Kit racks around the rear of the turret, and running mid to rear along both sides of the hull
Very distinct engine compartment door to the right of the drivers hatch
2x "box" shaped sights on top of the turret

BMP 2

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30mm 2A42 Cannon
1x 7.62mm PKT Coaxial Machine gun
AT-5 Konkurs ATGM launcher
6x Multi Barrel Smoke Grenade Dischargers

Very easy to recognise by:
The "Frying pan" shaped turret
The AT-5 Konkurs ATGM launcher is very prominent on the top center of the turret roof
Very wide and "clean" profile of the front of the hull around the drivers compartment

BRDM-2

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14.5mm KPVT Machine Gun
1x 7.62mm PKT Coaxial Machine Gun

Very easy to recognise by:
One of very few four wheeled armoured fighting vehicles
Small "frying pan" turret
Sloped rear of the vehicle
Double "windscreen" below the main armament

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Reserved for IFV's

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Reserved for IFV's

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Reserved for SAMS

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Reserved for SAMS

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Reserved for SAMS