Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "British Army Challenger 2 tanks to join Polish battlegroup" video.

pretty easy to tell Russian tanks from Western/Nato ones by the sheer size difference, these Challenger 2's are about a third again the size of a T-72, and of course they have big angular turrets rather than small round ones (due to their keeping the ammo in the turret bustle rather than the hull and said turrets being far more heavily armoured as a consequence)
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@viuvenitlalumina Well so far as I know the only tanks to have actually seen any action on either side so far have all been Russian or Soviet origin designs of one sort or another (the Western powers are still trying to stop things escalating further so won't directly send tanks like these yet, plus they don't want them falling into Russian hands and the Ukrainians aren't trained on them); so for identification the Russians put various big white letters on their tanks like "O" and "Z" and the Ukrainians paint blue and yellow on theirs, and both sides often fly their respective flags from them too; not very visible from the air or from a long way off though of course so I bet there has indeed been some friendly-fire incidents there unfortunately. Can't be helped. Could try big reflective orange panels, that's what the British tanks you see here had in Iraq to stop the American A10 Warthogs blasting them, MOST of the time it worked
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