All of the group races at the tank biathlon at the army games have now finished, so here’s a thread of all the best videos from this years races. Starting with the Venezuelan commanders reaction to his crew missing all their targets with the main gun. The Iranian crew crashing into the Zimbabwe crew and forcing them off the track

Sudanese tank crew at the tank biathlon had a disaster on the tank trap obstacle throughout the race, their last attempt resulted in destroying the side skirt and getting stuck. On their first attempt on the first lap, one of the tank traps wasn’t on the ramp resulting in a significant drop into the tank trap.

Another crash at the tank biathlon this morning as the Iranian crew crashed into the Zimbabwe crewed tank, forcing them off the track.
#Zimbabwe #Iran It was another bad performance from Zimbabwe, their main gun target shooting was very poor. (They’re trying to hit the red targets)

A complete disaster for the Armenian crew at the army games in Russia as they crashed into the Laos teams tank on the final lap where everything went wrong for the Armenian team.
#Armenia #Russia The Armenian driver then took a wrong turn onto a penalty lap despite not being given a penalty. The tank then went off the track and stopped where the driver and commander got out to clean the drivers viewing block.

Venezuelan 3rd tank crew took part in the tank biathlon at the army games in Russia this morning, it was Venezuelas best performance so far but they still finished last. Almost 11 minutes behind 3rd place and 16 minutes behind the leader of their race,Kazakhstan
#Venezuela The first main gun target shooting only had 1 target hit with 2 of the shots being very short.

A complete disaster for the Sudanese tank crew at the army games in Russia. The tank driver got incredibly confused and drove into a field and kept driving, even driving over part of the track to continue into the next field.
#Russia #Sudan From the start of the lap it was clear that the Sudanese tank driver was going to be interesting to watch, he wasn’t slowing down for any obstacles.

A serious technical malfunction of a T-72B3 at the army games in Russia this morning. South Ossetia after loading ammunition and approaching the firing range had an out of control turret where the gun was pointed at the Zimbabwean crewed tank and back towards the stands.
#Russia The Zimbabwean teams tank was also stuck on the target range after its main gun became jammed, Russian mechanics and technicians had to drive out to the tank and clear the malfunction

Venezuelas crew 2 participated at the tank biathlon at the army games in Russia today. They finished last again but with a time 5 minutes quicker than Crew 1s time a few days ago. Videos of the performance in the thread below.
#Venezuela Venezuelas tank crew 2 had a much better time on the main gun targets and they got 3 hits, however only 1 counted as the 1st shot exceeded the 20 second time limit, the 2nd shot was good but the 3rd shot missed, they reloaded and took a 4th shot but they hit the wrong target.

The army games are underway and the main event of the tank biathlon went very badly for Venezuela who finished 12 minutes behind 3rd place and 22 minutes behind first place, this is supposed to be a challenge for the best tank crews, below are the videos of Venezuelas performance Firstly they failed their first attempt at the Main gun target fire, missing all 3 shots.

The Trinidad Minister of Energy says a technical team sent by Trinidad & Tobago confirmed that the FSO Nabarima is no longer tilting and there is no water ingress into the vessel and its condition is safe, he confirms the tanker is currently being offloaded by PDVSA
#Venezuela He says the Venezuelans admitted to 2 problems onboard in recent months. There was a failure of the ballast system valves which caused a 7 degree tilt of the vessel, but this has since been repaired.

https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1317455408882135042

A huge explosion has occurred in Beirut
#Lebanon The explosion very close up from a boat

Venezuelan military identification guide. Here’s some identification tips for frequently seen Venezuelan military equipment and how to spot it when it’s being transported. As well as some identifying information on other Venezuelan military vehicles/aircraft.
#Venezuela First is the S-125 Air Defence system which are commonly moved around.
The below video is an example of what a full S-125 convoy looks like when being transported

Reports tonight that an Iranian Navy Moudge Class Frigate has opened fire on an Iranian Navy vessel called “Konarak” in a friendly fire incident near Jask. Reports of at least 20 dead.
#Iran An anti ship missile was reportedly fired from the frigate at the Konarak in a friendly fire incident.

The first thing to know about April 30 is that it was never meant to happen on that day. The uprising was planned for May 1st, when Guaido had called for protests. They had to move a day early because they were scared that there was a leak of information.

https://twitter.com/conflictsw/status/1255796007998275584

The plan was kept secret from a lot of people to try and ensure no one would leak the plans, not even Guaidos team knew about it. The whole thing was planned by Leopoldo Lopez who was able to contact people such as Maikel Moreno and Cristopher Figuera to plan the uprising.

Video released by the Venezuelan Navy shows them shooting at the RCGS Resolute cruise ship then it shows the Resolute impacting the side of the GC-23 Naiguata and it shows severe damage to the Naiguata
#Venezuela The video is very heavily edited and only shows less than a minute of footage from the incident

The Venezuelan navy OPV vessel the GC-23 Naiguata was sunk early yesterday morning after it collided with the Resolute, Passenger ship registered in Portugal. The Resolute continued to sale to Curaçao without rescuing the Venezuelan crew of the sinking vessel.
#Venezuela $325 million naval vessel sunk after somehow colliding with the passenger ship so badly that it sunk the ship and yet the Resolute was able to continue on to Curaçao. An expensive loss

2 days ago on the Ciénaga-Barranquilla highway in Colombia a van was stopped by police and the driver was arrested. In the back of the van was dozens of weapons and hundreds of accessories, it was reportedly heading to Venezuela
#Venezuela #Colombia Jorge Rodríguez says that they were going to be used in high profile assassinations including trying to assassinate Maduro. This could be correct at the weaponry and accessories are advanced and include night vision equipment.

A Thread of Italians responding in a positive way to the complete lockdown due to the Coronavirus.
Starting with a DJ set on a balcony
#Italy #Coronavirus More music from the balconies

Thread: A geolocation challenge for anyone interested. Venezuelan JY-11 Radar. They tried to hide the location of the deployment. But then Uploaded a video where we can get some location data
#Venezuela On the radar screen the outline of the Venezuelan coast is shown which matches up to the coastline between la Guaira and carenero. They previously tried to hide this

THREAD - This is the start of a thread on military movements in Venezuela ahead of this weekends mass military exercises.

If you see any videos of Venezuelan military please either send them to me or tag me in them :)
#Venezuela Starting with the BUK missiles currently deployed in Caracas. 1 BUK radar deployed at La Carlota airbase and 1 launcher with 3 missiles on it deployed with a loader on the La Guaira - Caracas Highway next to Maiquetia airport

Thread:
Below is all the information collected on 3 mysterious identical white trucks seen on the 23/02/2019 in Santa Elena de Uairén. All 3 were chased by the GNB and the fate of the drivers is unknown. This is one of the biggest unanswered questions of the day
#Venezuela All the videos of a white truck being chased through the streets of Santa Elena de Uairén are of the same truck (Truck 1) being chased by 3 GNB armoured vehicles. Heavy gunfire is heard throughout all the videos as its believed that the GNB were shooting at the truck.