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SYSOP
5/22/2015 6:04:55 AM
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Crims
5/22/2015 9:12:05 AM
Did anyone see the video showing the T-14 breaking down during the Victory Parade? There are some things in Russia new designs can't fix.
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trenchsol
5/22/2015 9:50:44 AM
Russians will fix the problems, eventually. I mean, those are not such big technological innovation that they can't be fixed. Obviously, designers were pressed to make it work before they were ready for it. For political reasons, most likely.
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keffler25
5/22/2015 12:54:17 PM
Video 1.
Video 2
. This is what caught fire. It is one of the better Russian SAM systems, so take that indicator for what it is worth.
Video 3.
Color me not impressed. Loud, tall, aspparently very HOT with poor elevate and slue arcs for the gun. The engine looks like a shoot me here spot. Did notice that the Russians put the autoloader ON TOP OF THE HULL in the 'turret' while they parked the crew in a cockpit type arrangement in front of it. So that thing will blow up without the crew sitting on top of the ammunition. The ammunition will sit on top of them instead. Ammunition explodes down as well as up, so I'm not sure that this is much of an improvement. No blow out panels evident.
The infantry carrier looks a lot like the FCS in concept which makes me wonder why the Russians imitated the American mistake. A lot of explosive reactive armor blocks shows me that their active defense measures and assive armor still lags. Narrow tracks, again noisy and you can see a visible thermal bloom that means a shoot me here spot for IR missiles.
As a final note, those were not IR headlights on the T-14, but spotlights. Interesting.
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Sty0pa
5/27/2015 9:08:13 PM
Anyone notice the giant shot trap on the T14 turret glacis? (How could you not?)
WTF, I thought armor designers had figured out how bad an idea that was since, oh, the StuG IIIB?
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joe6pack
5/29/2015 11:02:55 PM
>Color me not impressed
I second that.
The IFV version.. looked particularly dubious to me.
Turret way back.. poor depression in the frontal arc.. amongst other things..
The pictures of the sides.. without the bolt on armor.. looks like anyone with a light anti armor weapon of any sort.. would be easy pickings...
From the back.. it doesn't look like the ramp / door for the dismounts is particularly big / wide.. so I wonder about the loading.. and far more important.. the speed of dismounting the infantry....
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