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This tank is highly automated - the Russian military says it could be the basis for a fully robotic tank in future.
It has a remote-control gun turret with a 125mm smooth-bore cannon that can fire guided missiles
as well as shells.
The crew of three is housed in a reinforced capsule
at the front, away from the firing systems.
The Armata's chassis is adaptable - it can also serve as the platform for a heavy infantry fighting vehicle, an engineering vehicle, a multiple rocket launcher and some other variants.
Russia plans to bring in about 2,300 Armatas, starting in 2020, to replace Soviet-era tanks. They are built by UralVagonZavod.
Jane's Defence Weekly says the T-14 and Russia's other new armoured systems are "principally clean-slate designs" that "represent the biggest change in Russia's armoured fighting vehicle families since the 1960s and 1970s".
That 125mm main gun, presumably the same as on the T-64/T-80/T-90 family, looks pretty puny in that big boxy turret compared to the Soviet legacy design tanks... Interesting...
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That's the very first thing that
struck me about that image also.
Traditionally, the russian military
has been known to be bluff and
devious in it's public presentations.
Leaves me to wonder if the U.S. has any kind
of robotic systems in store for our present or
future variants.
What on earth can the imagine they'll do with this besides defend their own borders. For years they've led the way with agile fighting vehicles, and designed pretty cruddy heavy tanks.
As for US robotics, I'd take an airborne Hellfire platform in a heartbeat.
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Very cool looking AFV! Don't know how well all those automated systems are going to work out. I've read about some Middle Eastern clients ripping out the auto-loaders on current model Soviet/Russian tanks and adding a fourth guy to manually load the main gun.
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Gamera I've read about some Middle Eastern clients ripping out the auto-loaders on current model Soviet/Russian tanks and adding a fourth guy to manually load the main gun.
I've read about some Middle Eastern clients ripping out the auto-loaders on current model Soviet/Russian tanks and adding a fourth guy to manually load the main gun.
I suspect that the TC will be at a serious disadvantage in actual combat with his head down there buttoned up in this tank. I am not aware of the Russians being digitally integrated like our current AFVs are, so his situational awareness will be curtailed bigtime.
GMorrison Gamera I've read about some Middle Eastern clients ripping out the auto-loaders on current model Soviet/Russian tanks and adding a fourth guy to manually load the main gun. Seems to be working out for them, LOLs.
Lol, so they still can't hit the broad side of a barn door...
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That's strange looking Karl.........
Looks like a different profile with a bigger gun on the older chassis. .
Very cool Karl but a little out of my price range. I'd pay it for a 1/35th kit but 1/72nd no thanks!
I read someplace else that they brought out an Armata in the MayDay parade - and it broke down during the parade when the transmission let go. Apparently they left it where it was until the parade was over. Funny if this is true.
Yup, I just read that... but it was during a parade rehearsal yesterday, not the actual parade. Oh Stalin would have had them shot!
Kind of creepy, those throwback insignias.
Chuckle though as they drive by that Citibank branch...
I don't dig it. It doesn't look "tanky" enough, if that makes any sense?:
that's the same reason our M1A2s don't have autoloaders. When designing the M1, the Army determined that a properly trained human loader can ram shells much faster and more reliably then an autoloader.
Nice...but...I think tanks are in extinction...with so many "shoulder" anti tank weapons and drones that can fire misiles...it is now useless. Except if you use them for controlling riots...
Should be interesting..........
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Yeah, very interesting.
After five days I actually realized I posted this to the wrong thread.
at least it can't eat the gunner like the auto loaders on the other russian tanks.
lets start a pool on what company puts out the first 1/35 and when i'll \go with MENG in November.
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I thought they kind of look like an insignia on a GI Joe toy.
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tellis I thought they kind of look like an insignia on a GI Joe toy. T. Ellis
I think that's where they get a lot of their ideas...........
Bwa ha ha !!!!!
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Yep, but as someone mentioned, everything is going drone with missiles. I guess this are really to supress any civil uprising. Sincerely I think tanks are no longer very useful in big country encounters. Iraq had 100's of tanks anihilated in what....2 days...and this was in 1990!
Yeah, that ride is quite spiffy looking but for some reason modern tanks (with a couple of exceptions) just don't give me the spark I get from the WWII and Korean era stuff.
Anyhow.....I've been having enough trouble just staying interested in anything at all for quite some time now.
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