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michaelmaltby said:
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Since not everyone is aware, let me explain. That IS-3 was a WWII monument in Ukraine (village Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Donetsk Region), stolen by separatists in July 2014 who tried to use it in combat. The main gun was unusable but a new machine gun was installed on the top. Abandoned and found by government forces in town Konstantinovka. One fuel tank had an "On to the Kyiv" sign, another one "On to the Lviv(Lvov)". Repainted, repaired, and after several exhibitions in Kyiv and elsewhere moved to the permanent exhibition in a military museum in Mykolaiv Region.
The tank became a "hero" of propaganda in another country. Up to the point that Moscow Mint has produced the series of coins devoted to "two wars of IS-3". Moscow Mint made a mistake there: this type did not serve in 1944 and its first combat use was in 1956 in Budapest.
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AFT: Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and two Dassault Rafales assigned to Saint-Dizier-Robinson Air Base, France, break formation during flight May 18 over France. The flight was a part of exercise Atlantic Trident 21, a joint, multinational exercise involving service members from the U.S., France and the United Kingdom. (Staff Sgt. Alexander Cook/Air Force)
 

Daily Military News: U.S. Army M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles sit next to Bulgarian T72 tanks after a rehearsal for an upcoming live fire exercise at Novo Selo Training Range, Bulgaria, May 27, 2021, in support of Saber Guardian 21. Saber Guardian 21 is a linked exercise of DEFENDER-Europe 21. DEFENDER-Europe 21 is a large-scale U.S. Army-led exercise designed to build readiness and interoperability between the U.S., NATO allies and partner militaries. More than 28,000 multi-national forces from 26 nations will conduct nearly simultaneous operations across more than 30 training areas in more than a dozen countries from the Baltics to the strategically important Balkans and Black Sea Region. (Jeff VanWey/U.S. Army)
 
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