NATO’s 2020 anti-Russia training was held in the eastern European country of Latvia (right on Russia’s border).
NATO promo-video, NATO’s Adazi Training Base, Latvia, 23JAN2020:
LECLERC, NATO-France:
U.S. Army (USA) video by Kevin S. Abel, May 2018, France ‘invades’ Germany for Strong Europe Tank Challenge:
The Leclerc does not have a bore evacuator (fume extractor) on its NATO compatible 120mm F1 smoothbore main-gun. It uses interior overpressure, or a compressed air system, for gun-tube fume extraction.
USA video by Matthias Fruth, Leclercs blasting away during NATO’s Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the 7th U.S. Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:
Leclerc has a single exhaust that looks like a giant water-pipe elbow pointing skyward. The ‘things’ on the back-end of the tank are racks for external fuel drums, à la Soviet style.
CHALLENGER: No, not my (snow)drifting Challenger!
NATO-United Kingdom:
This is the Challenger I’m talking about, the United Kingdom’s Challenger-2. The Challenger has a ‘coffee-can’ bore evacuator on its non-NATO compatible 120mm L30A1 rifled-bore main-gun.
It also has fuel drum racks on its butt. The exhaust ports are square looking boxes towards the rear on each side of the vehicle.
Video, shooting a pistol from the turret of a Challenger-2, Strong Europe Tank Challenge, Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:
Somebody lit a fire under this Challenger-2’s ass! I suspect that it is one of the smoke grenades used to simulate a CBRN attack.
USA silent video, by Elliott Banks, of Royal Red Coats uploading their unique three-part-ammo:
USA video of Challenger-2 blasting away (this time Elliott recorded the audio), 06JUN2018:
VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS
JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?
ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE! (and they keep coming back from the dead)