T-14 Armata - new gen Russian tank

Ainen said:
Yes, though it's very long in this case.

Also - as far as I understand, illustration shows an early concept of autoloader, where shells are in carousel, and charges come exclusively from the bustle.
Real tank is simpler.
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Uh, no?
Bustle is for storing additional non-automated ammo outside of the hull. Like in T-90M. No loader.
Autoloader has it's own places for charges, look closely - each cassette consists of two cylinders. Like T-72 cassette, only turned 90 deg vertically.
 
Anduriel said:
Uh, no?
Bustle is for storing additional non-automated ammo outside of the hull. Like in T-90M. No loader.
Autoloader has it's own places for charges, look closely - each cassette consists of two cylinders. Like T-72 cassette, only turned 90 deg vertically.
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Exactly. And then use AI translation at illustration. :)
It's a different autoloader.
 
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Zvezda TV channel, owned by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, reports:
Rostec has modified the Russian T-14 Armata tank to the level of a short-range anti-aircraft missile system.

The Armata was equipped with the latest domestically produced electronic equipment, as well as a next-generation fire control system.

The 125-millimeter gun became a 152-millimeter smoothbore gun with a chrome-plated barrel, which will allow the T-14 to be armed with Kornet anti-tank guided missiles with a combat range of up to 10,000 meters.

The vehicle will also receive the latest artillery shell of the Krasnopol family with a bottom gas generator and a satellite navigation system. This will allow the T-14 to perform the functions of a short-range air defense system.

In addition to the Pterodactyl UAV, the vehicle will receive an additional type of onboard drone that will allow reconnaissance and targeting of precision-guided munitions at long distances.

The carried ammunition load is now designed for 40 shells, 24 of which will be in the autoloader.

The new version of the tank will have the ability to use modern ammunition longer than 1 meter. Among them are specially developed intelligent high-explosive fragmentation and thermobaric shells with remote detonation.

Rostec is also working on an unmanned version of the T-14.

Btvt.info: I thought it was another set of tall tales to go with vodka, but nevertheless this is being reported by the mouthpiece of the Russian defense industry. Are they really, after all this, trying to feed this rotten noodles on shit to the suckers? They want to carve up money on this rotten project for at least another century.
"Kornet," they probably mean this - t.me/btvt2019/16748 (Sprinter)
152 mm gun, some kind of meter-long munitions there - the old noodles on the ears from a bygone era, when they measured the length of APFSDS and gun calibers.
To the level of a short-range anti-aircraft missile system - some kind of clinic in the style of a radar on the Armata seeing satellites. I thought that in order to avoid being jailed for this pathetic disgrace and embezzlement, they would try to flash by and mention the Armata as little as possible, maybe people would forget, but no - they will carve up money all over again.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2105300727497097646
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Meter long munitions, larger main weapon & short range AAMs should not be discounted. Expensive propositions regardless.
 
A quarter of the Armata's were originally planned to have fairly capable radars, right? I always suspected that they might try to create a barrel launched anti-helicopter munition.

152mm gives enough volume to maintain terminal effects while having enough room for a guidance/control package... which allows it to be used in an indirect fire role... especially when paired with a drone - and thus keep its distance.

This move makes a lot of sense as an attempt to save the program.

You end up with a more mobile artillery piece that has more onboard sensors and armour than is typical. I'm still a bit sceptical about the price and the lack of drone defence though. But on face value, the moves would be logical if one wanted to save the platform.
 
ComradeVortex said:
The 125-millimeter gun became a 152-millimeter smoothbore gun with a chrome-plated barrel, which will allow the T-14 to be armed with Kornet anti-tank guided missiles with a combat range of up to 10,000 meters.

The vehicle will also receive the latest artillery shell of the Krasnopol family with a bottom gas generator and a satellite navigation system. This will allow the T-14 to perform the functions of a short-range air defense system.
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It would make it more suited for the modern battlefield to be honest, where the main purpose of a tank is assault and besieging dug in and otherwise fortified positions while providing cover, protection and binding response fire.

152mm would lend itself perfectly for that role. This and the unmanned/optionally manned proposition (which has been mentioned since it's inception) are certainly reminiscent of the Shturm concept.

It's also along the lines what many, myself included, suspected. That the T-14 is going through a major overhaul in order to better meet the realities of modern warfare, something legacy tanks like the T-72, Leopard 2, M1 or Challenger fail to acknowledge entirely due to being designed around outdated doctrine from decades ago.

Fill that unmanned turret up with HE, Canister, smoke and incendiary rounds and we got something that's suited for what a tank in Europe is supposed to do, which isn't anti-tank related whatsoever (I don't see much of a future for long, high caliber AT guns on AFVs tbh).
 
Change of caliber tho means new turret and that can also means new tank. Which kinda make it hard to believe.
 
Armata. Soon on frontline since 2022 (TM)
 

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