PART IV redux after losing first @ 0400.
News first than we'll take a
journey into the OOB.
FYI HEADLINE/CROATIA/M-84A4 SNIPER and M-84D TO BE UPGRADED TO THE M-95 DEGMAN LEVEL//TRACKING/GUESS/SHOULD HAVE UNITS UPGRADED AND IN THE FIELD BY 10/2020/IF THIS HOLDS TRUE, THAT WOULD MARK THE END DATES FOR THOSE TWO M-84 VARIENTS// Budget was approved in
02/2018. Assume work has begun if budget is on the
Calendar year, if not and they are on a standard
Fiscal year, work should have started around
10/2018 or 11/2018.
FYI/HEADLINE/CROATIA/M-95 DEGMAN/APPARENTLY THEY SEEK TO UPGRADE IT TO MEET NATO STANAG REQUIRMENTS. THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN COLLABRATING WITH SWISS RUAG TO DEVELOP A SMALL CALIBAR (L44?) 120mm MG TO ALSO MEET NATO REQUIRMENTS/TRACKING/THEY ARE ON A UNKNOWN TIMELINE TO GET THIS DONE FROM NATO/GUESS/06/2021//
I'm to do this in as close to the listing in the OOB as possible.
First
CROATIAN M-84 progression/hierarchy:
M-84, M-84A (Both Out of Service.),
M-84A4 SNIPER, M-84D and M-95 DEGMAN.
YUGOSLOVIA (Built in the State of CROATIA) developed the
M-84 as an improved version of the
SOVIET era T-72M1M export version. This build issue will cause a start date change for one tank, but, if not you at least know what I was thinking at the time.
Alright here we go...
CROATIA/CHANGE/M-95 DEGMAN/UNIT 008/TI/GSR 40 VICE VISION 35/DELETE LAHAT/DELETE 12.7mm M87 AAMG/ADD Samson RWS 12.7mm HMG//Based on the refs to be provided with the builder one provided directly below, the argument can be made that this tank has a DETECTION RNG. OF >4000m/
RECOGNITION RNG. >2000m it is considered an advanced 2nd GEN System.
LAHAT was never exported to CROATIA and no site I've come across (And I don't use WIKI anything.) mentions any
CROATIAN tank being armed with the
LAHAT. Further ref. is also directly below the first one as they are exclusive to this tank. Dates covered
1990 - 2017 for
SIPRI search.
Finally I chose this tank because the ERA is where it should be.
http://ddsv.hr/download/Tenk_Degman_engleski.pdf
All optional equipment was acted upon to include FCS & 1200HP German engine etc.
http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade...e_register.php
Israel "Delivered" "Weapon" "Order" "Delivered"
R: Croatia 2 Hermes-450 UAV 2006 2007 2
8 UT-25/UT-30 IFV turret 2017 HRK94 m ($14.8 m) deal;
UT-30MK2 version for 6 AMV IFV; delivery planned 2018
UT-30MK2 as highlighted should be delivered by now.
Reporting to
SIPRI is governed by Treaties and International Law among the factors they use.
CROATIA/CHANGE/M-84 & M-84A/UNITS 012 & 013/END DATE 12/2007 VICE 12/2025//All previous active T-84 mods were upgraded to the
M-84A4 SNIPER standard by
2008.
CROATIA/DELETE/M-95 DEGMAN/UNIT O15//If anything these might have represented the
two prototype tanks that were produced and not put into service.
CROATIA/CHANGE/M-84D/UNIT 020/DELETE 12.7 M2 (SLAP)/ADD 12.7mm M2 CROWS RWS//
CROATIA/DELETE/M-84D/UNIT 021/REDUNDANT TO UNIT 020/AGAIN NO LAHAT//
CROATIA/CHANGE/M-95 DEGMAN/UNIT 023/USE MODIFIED UNIT 008 IF ADAPTED AS BASE/DELETE 12.7mm M87 AAMG/ADD Samson RWS 40mm AGL//
CROATIA/DELETE/M-94 DEGMAN/UNIT 024/REDUNDANT//
I can find no evidence that any of these tanks had a "
mid-life" upgrade of any kind. Besides other factors, this drove some of the above.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/febr...nks_fleet.html
https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/33033
http://tanknutdave.com/the-yugoslavi...r-m-84-series/
https://www.militaryfactory.com/armo...p?armor_id=629
Ref. 3 does a nice job of breaking these tanks down but more importantly along with Ref. 4 to a lesser degree, discuss the various mods across the countries that operated the
M-84.
Doing the best I can.
Regards,
Pat
