friendship ended with T-14 armata. turtle tank is new best tank now.

@Blackcain

Ай бұрын

🐢

@Nottotti-eg9nf

Ай бұрын

Tortil 😁👍🐢

@domokun845

Ай бұрын

Back to the roots, Mother Nature's first tank.

@S1lverarrow

Ай бұрын

Yeaaa

@comradeblin256

Ай бұрын

YAY TUTEL ENJOYER 🐢

The Turtle Tank is the future of tanks.

@kxng_k0Ng_

Ай бұрын

It’s for fpvs there’s vids of some taking 3 hits and kept going also they did a reconnaissance in force to find Ukraine positions in the vid it kept going and u see a grenade launcher being shot at it it did nothing it kept going and there was 1 with mine clearing equipment and it got tracked the Russians got it and repaired it.

@kxng_k0Ng_

Ай бұрын

There all different some look bad ass with chains and fat ammo boxes and so on. The vid is nasty the Ukraines kept trying to hit em and it kept going large scale combined arms positional warfare in Europe and its 30% modern footholds strongholds defensive belts military fortifications all types of trenches dougouts fox holes high ground low ground Russia hits concentration of forces and temporary positions in the front and rear all the time Ukraine only gets lil pricks Yk Ukraine doesn’t have fabs aviation bombs they don’t even have military kamikaze drones with war heads just military reconnaissance drones all regular drones fpvs drones boats and so on.

@kxng_k0Ng_

Ай бұрын

They Germans fought harder in ww2 they had the weaponry Ukraine doesn’t they got what they got and get what they get.☠️

@sirwhitemeat9785

Ай бұрын

@@kxng_k0Ng_ you love putin

@John_Brian-qu5eq

Ай бұрын

​​While i appreciate your support of russia, you are wrong about the level of tech that is available to the Ukrainians ​@@kxng_k0Ng_

A few years ago one of our senior military officials said that our stuff is obsolete because if the Chinese really wanted to, they could just swarm us with drones by the thousands. I think the Russians are learning that throwing your best tanks into a place where a cheap drone can take them out is not the best move. We have witnessed a shift in how wars are fought. Its crazy to think that armored soldiers were on the battlefield for thousands of years, even after gunpowder and the tank would be the ultimate version of that armor, but its barely lasted 100 years as an effective tool.

@Tonius126

Ай бұрын

There is no alternative to tanks as an mobile fire support plantform. Aardvark wipe out 80% of iraqs armor and tanks were never said to be obsolete then. Russia lacks the advanced EW system due to advance chips and semi cinducters sanctions to cover all their armor.

@currawong60911368

Ай бұрын

Every measure has a countermeasure. Things will remain largely the same. Tanks, aircraft, ships have all been considered obsolete and yet here we are. All have counter measures, and so measures to counter the countermeasures and so on.

@tomvlodek6377

28 күн бұрын

@@Tonius126 wrong, they have their own semiconductor industry and make some of the most advanced systems in the world with indigenously produced components, nice try at coping though 😂

@soloqueuepixy

27 күн бұрын

lol no. cheap and light drones are blind and weak drones. they're only prevalent because the frontlines are barely moving, and the frontlines are barely moving because neither side has a way to effectively bypass the world war 1 artillery contest. this is because the russian air force is limited to lobbing glide bombs at stationary targets from the safety of friendly airspace, and the ukrainian air force barely exists. this is not a problem faced by the US air force, which proved even thirty years ago that it could do much more than that.

@soloqueuepixy

27 күн бұрын

​@@tomvlodek6377 the country whose air force got caught upgrading their navigation to use basic civilian GPS lmao

Retooling factories currently producing T90's probably just isn't worth it.

@shuathe2nd

Ай бұрын

Is it a T-90 if it doesn't have night vision and thermal sights bought from western companies? Isn't it just a T-72 at that point?

@gobomanaga5615

Ай бұрын

@@shuathe2nd Russia produces its' own night vision both for tanks and infantry, Russians are second only to the US in night vision technology, and the US has explicitly banned selling any US night vision to foreign states.

@alexnderrrthewoke4479

Ай бұрын

@@shuathe2nd look nafo bot will you stop lying? Its getting old

@jonny2954

Ай бұрын

@@gobomanaga5615 Do you know the difference between image intensifier and thermal imager? Modern AFVs don't even have image intensifiers anymore, they run thermals only. Russia still can not mass produce thermal imagers, even the ones reverse engineered from western ones.

@shuathe2nd

Ай бұрын

@@alexnderrrthewoke4479 truth hurt snowflake? russia is taking a battering, and putin is turning it into north korea - if you like that then good for you, but clearly you don't like russian people if you want that fate for them.

it would be funny if the T-14 ends up being changed substantially and then like the ak-12, the only place the original design exists is in a Battlefield game

@Mwwwwwwwwe

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the new soviet union...Been watching a lot of"paper skies" chanel recently and a common soviet theme is if it doesn't work, fake test results or push it into serial production and fix it with hundreds of upgrades. Or arrest everyone involved in the project for treason. That's what happens when a government sets unreasonable goals and expects delivery on a certain day no matter what

@DaBestEmperor

Ай бұрын

I think that is likely going to be the case, tbh.

@rfak7696

Ай бұрын

​@@Mwwwwwwwwe So, running a nation like a tech company?

@mitchconner403

29 күн бұрын

Nah, they would probably just put a tool shed on top of the tank, and call it a day.

@02suraditpengsaeng41

15 күн бұрын

Can't wait in WarT hunder with magic no spall armor and no exploded ammo (spall liner isn't bad enough)

Retooling the UVZ factory for full-scale T-14 production would mean stopping it for a year or more. This is unacceptable during wartime. The Armed Forces need continuous inflow of new/modernised/reactivated tanks to compensate for losses and to equip new units, which means that production of currently ready model (i.e. T-90M) must be ramped up. Meanwhile, the design of object 148 can be updated or possibly reworked, accounting for the experience gained during the combat operations of the current war.

@Legion617

Ай бұрын

They literally had nearly a decade to completely overhaul UVZ for the production of T-14s, without ANY war, and STILL haven't set up production. It's a dead end.

Turtle tank > t14

If Ukraine is the problem, then T14 is NOT the answer. Think this war will change a lot of views on what defines good equipment in a real war.

@user-kc9nf5yq8n

Ай бұрын

вот верный взгляд, и сейчас рулят Цари-Мангалы

@thomashaapalainen4108

Ай бұрын

​@@user-kc9nf5yq8naudible fart noise .

@greenling.

Ай бұрын

If one believes that wars between major countries will be fought with either almost no airforce and fleet or with incapable ones and Artillery-shelling as method of advancement then... well maybe...

@anthonykaiser974

Ай бұрын

​@@greenling.True, but ubiquitous drone surveillance and attacks have definitely changed how the game has to be played. Any major tactical level mistakes can be detected and taken advantage of so much more easily, for example, at least without good deception and EW plans.

@gamingrex2930

Ай бұрын

This war will change a lot of views on what defines good equipment FOR this type of war. You're suggesting every new battle field will be another ukraine, lowlands interspersed with urban centres and a single branching highway. Or the fact that tanks will even be used in their current roles for future war.

Jeez the amount of bots in this comment section is insane

@aurex8937

Ай бұрын

Weird, I only saw bots from one side, and it's probably not the one you're referring to.

@tetispinkman9135

Ай бұрын

That's why I don't really read comment any more.

@madbean3532

Ай бұрын

Well, afterall, the nature of the internet - it has also bring all those conflicts in reality to zero distance. There's no Eden in the present day internet anymore, tainted by the nature of mankind. Ahh yes, don't mind my weird talk. It's just everything has been a bit too depressing....

@yarnickgoovaerts

Ай бұрын

@@aurex8937 what side do you think I’m referring to?

@plebius

Ай бұрын

Beep boop beep

For the same reason the US hasn't bought half the weapons systems its developed over the decades. The new stuff usually doesn't do anything the old one can't do for less money and in the mean time some of the stuff on the new one gets put on the old one as upgrades. In the case of a tank a hull doesn't go obsolete, its just a hull. Put a new turret on it or an upgraded turret on and its technically a brand new tank. Just looks at the turkish M60's.

@SiyasiMunafucksavar

Ай бұрын

Katılıyorum. Günümüzde tank fiyatları uçmuş durumda. (3×Tank = 1×F16) Bu resmen çılgınlık. En iyisi eldeki tankları modernize etmek.

@honkhonk8009

29 күн бұрын

@@SiyasiMunafucksavar Not really. Tank prices have gotten pretty cheap relative to aircraft costs. Especially the Abrams considering how old/mature the design is. They play on this alot considering how NATO switched from expensive MBT's to faster/cheaper LAVs and Strykers.

@Zack_Wester

29 күн бұрын

@@honkhonk8009 plus the us is only building new M1 tanks at the lowest number to keep the factory and staff in support. had the US sensed a war soon and gov been United on that US could easily ramp upp production and lower the cost of per tank. would the cost per year be more or less or equal I dont remember.

A good weapon need to be cost effective. If the cost of one latest tank = 10 older tanks. It is difficult to replace the losses in the battle field.

Its really simple. 10 Million dollars tanks get blown up same as 1 Million dollars tanks with drones and land mines. There is no point in making 10 Mill dollars tank when u can get 10 others easier and faster for same price.

@kyb5203

Ай бұрын

I think that is a very one dimensional way to think of equipment design. The cheaper tank may be a cheaper loss, but it will inevitably be lost at a higher rate. Secondly, a cheaper tank would not be able perform well under ideal conditions, as in a cheap tank that breaks through a defensive line wouldn’t be able to take as much ground as a high quality tank if it broke through defensive lines.

@Thanatos833

Ай бұрын

Sounds like a classically Russian approach, quantity > quality, which can be useful at time, as it was vs the Germans in WW2

Cheap drones are so OP it makes sense just to spam buy them and artillery

Because a T90M reinforced with a turtle shell paired with an RC drone easily beats T14, and costs a lot less.

@macmcleod1188

18 күн бұрын

The turtle shells were a stopgap measure which doesn't work against artillery they were only good During the period that Republicans denied Ukraine artillery shells.

The comment section here: All wars are fought exactly the same and so the only tank that is any good is XYZ. I know this because I''m a youtube commentor.

@MisterFoxton

Ай бұрын

Objectivity and nuance? No no no. Outrage and negativity? Yes please.

@abas656thegodemperor9

Ай бұрын

exactly lol

Long story short, turning T72 to become a mobile shed gave better and more reliable (and MUCH cheaper) protection against drones and artillery compared to any "Active Protection System" available in existence.

Ай бұрын

Really? They go pop just like all the others...

@comradeblin256

Ай бұрын

The tutel does not go pop, it just burn like leopard and abrams do. Its funny considering making a tank to a mobile shed increase its survivability.

@nikolaideianov5092

Ай бұрын

​​@@comradeblin256when even buildings are running awey from russia

@LunaticTheCat

Ай бұрын

Available in Russia, not "existence." You have no clue what type of classified systems the US and/or allies may be working on right now.

@tomvlodek6377

28 күн бұрын

@@LunaticTheCat and you have no idea what they are working on either

I agree. Cost per loss makes ground war prohibitive for tanks. Any infantry soldier can carry a shoulder mounted missile that will destroy any tank. Those missiles cost far less than tanks, and any vehicle can carry several of those missiles. Tanks are slow and consume huge quantities of fuel making supply chains more difficult to fulfill. Tanks are huge, easy targets making their crews sitting ducks. Mine fields are effective in preventing the movement of tanks. Missiles will continue to get cheaper and better where tanks have reached their performative threshold. Baring the ability to make tanks fly and use nuclear fuel, tanks are a dead end. Robot tanks won't cost crews, but they will still be susceptible to mines and missiles and aircraft, and they will be expensive for the foreseeable future. Robot tanks will have vulnerabilities because they won't have environmental awareness that a present human will have. When a mag-mine attaches to the bottom of the robot tank, it won't hesitate to bring that mine with it to the refueling depot or the remote operator's location.

being deployed to two war zones with plenty of footage pouring out without a single sighting. now that some stealth

Without a major international buyer like Turkey, India, or Egypt I can't see Russia ever mass producing the T-14.

@alexnderrrthewoke4479

Ай бұрын

Low iq comment but somehow it produces tanks in mass for all other models. Make that make sense 😂😂

@avarion9538

Ай бұрын

They can't massproduce it, because the engine is terrible. It fails all the time, and they constructed and developed the tank around the engine, so they can't just use another engine. That means, the whole program failed. In average, the tank has problems every 40km or 25 miles, and needs specialists to fix it, so the thing is useless.

@sH-ed5yf

Ай бұрын

​​@@alexnderrrthewoke4479we talk about the t14. And in fact it is not mass produced. He is right about that...

@ailinofaolin8897

Ай бұрын

@avarion9538 So you watched lazerpigs shitpost video on the T14 and now you're an expert on that tank and how often it breaks down, in Ireland we call this shitetalk of the highest order.

@alexnderrrthewoke4479

Ай бұрын

@@sH-ed5yf not yet and again if you use laserpig as your source then you need to go to a therapy session. Seriously

The t14 relied on Western components. Sanctions ended that. The same thing applies to the Moscow. That flagship had a hundred million dollars worth of western electronics in it. There would have been more, however the sanctions from the 2014 Crimean Invasion blocked purchases during the 2019 refit.

@Wlad-nc9ys

Ай бұрын

Сколько вы ребята будите еще смешить со своими промытыми мозгами. Ваша пропаганда делает же вам плохо . В Т-14 нет и не было ни одного западного комплектующего. Тепловизоры свои , вся электроника своя у нас. Мы восстановили лучшую в мире советскую электронику. Санкции только делают сильнее нас и развивают нашу экономику. Не смешите нас вашей пропагандой, потому что вас уже жалко становится. 😂

@user-bk6gx7sg3j

Ай бұрын

That is a lie

@Devil_Dog_98

Ай бұрын

@@Wlad-nc9ysJoin the army, Ivan. Your country needs you.

@Wlad-nc9ys

Ай бұрын

@@Devil_Dog_98 не переживай , у нас достаточно армии на фронте, чтобы выкинуть нато из украины навсегда. Ждем тебя в наёмниках. И да, наемников в плен мы не берем. 😉

@Devil_Dog_98

Ай бұрын

@@Wlad-nc9ys Oh no, but that don’t matter Ivan! Mother Russia is calling! You need to get back and answer the call!😉

we kinda do this too. generally no one makes their entire fleet the most modern tank. it's just so expensive.

Why buy T-14 when you can buy more Blyatmobile?🤣

@AnmolX-jw8jr

Ай бұрын

True

T14 was only ever a parade tank. Tested in Syria and no one saw it. Sounds like another joke

@messier8379

26 күн бұрын

just like your Overhyped Challegner2 that got its Turret Tossed in Robotyne by a single Krasnopol hit

@arghost9798

25 күн бұрын

​@messier8379 and afraid to appear in the frontline again ever since

What some commenter overlook is that retooling factories for mass production also drives up initial cost and hampers logistics

@Gorillafishing

Ай бұрын

Da komradski

The new T-90 breakthrough tank Russia developed costs them between $1.5-2.5m, considering Russia has bolstered their own factories for mass production, we can assume it's under $2m per unit. That's 4 T-90 breakthrough tanks for every T-14, not to mention it takes much longer to produce the T-14 armata even if it enters mass production. So yeah it makes zero sense for Russia to go with the armata platform, ESPECIALLY in the type of modern conflict we have witnessed taking place in Ukraine. Remember, the armata platform was planned and design way before this war even started.. it would work amazing in small proxy wars around Africa and the Middle East, but in Ukraine where both sides has all kinds top-tier anti-tank options? Hell no.

@mspicer3262

Ай бұрын

the T-90M runs about $4.5mil per unit, half the expected initial unit cost of $9mil per unit for the T-14.

@Chris-zr3to

Ай бұрын

Except you lose the crew when a T90 gets hit. In theory the T14 crew would survive. Easier to replace tanks then it is experienced crews

@irrelevantchannel200

Ай бұрын

BMPT terminator preformed better than the older BMP models with higher survivability it uses same Armata platform I think so idk

@mspicer3262

Ай бұрын

@@Chris-zr3to it definitely costs less than $4.5 million to replace the 3-man crew. russian crews don't get much training, so it makes no sense to ensure their survival. that still makes the T-90 the better option, economically.

@Chris-zr3to

Ай бұрын

@@mspicer3262 maybe but it is hard to put a price on battlefield experience

Drones changed warfare. What's the point of making a super expensive tank when a Drone can destroy it in one shot?

@azieldaly2965

2 күн бұрын

Tanks can be upgraded with anti drone systems.

Because almost every tank since the T-72...has been a T-72 with DLC.

@DollyRanch

Ай бұрын

But the t-80 exists?

@zlamas997

Ай бұрын

@@DollyRanchoveral design principle is the same with t-80, there are major differences with autolader and engine but overall it’s t-72 on steroids.

@DollyRanch

Ай бұрын

@@zlamas997 the hull is also different

@vp5209

Ай бұрын

T-90 is an upgrade of T-72, T-80 is an upgrade of T-64, while T-72 is an upgrade of T-64

@eminence_

Ай бұрын

@@vp5209 T-72 is in many ways worse than modernized T-64. Get your facts straight. Reason why all countries are modifying T-72 is that because it sucks.

Turtle tank is the new meta! 😂 T14 is already obsolescent! ❤

@ataksnajpera

Ай бұрын

From modern T14 to Mad MaX style shack.

@tomvlodek6377

Ай бұрын

And so is the challenger, panther and overhyped abrams

@ataksnajpera

Ай бұрын

@@tomvlodek6377 Ukraine got the oldest Abrams available M1A1 from 80s. USA is not stupid to send the best ones to some random country.

@user-ru6yl9zr2z

29 күн бұрын

​@ataksnajpera main difference of old and new abrams is secret armor. But side strikes with drones and artillery will still destroy both

@ataksnajpera

29 күн бұрын

@@user-ru6yl9zr2z most likely you will be able to only destroy tracks. Latest version of Abrams are much more difficult to destroy. One Abrams in Irak got hit 7 times by RPG and was still working.

Lots of tanks that are "good enough" are better than one "super tank". Hopefully the UK's MOD get the message also.

I don’t think Russia will be in any financial position after this war to think about expensive advancements in weapons technologies. War is an exhaustively expensive undertaking regardless of the country and Russia was not in particularly strong economic shape before the war. They are on track to allot 35% of all government spending toward the war in 2024. That’s a lot of domestic services and infrastructure that won’t be addressed.

@vp5209

Ай бұрын

@@Simeon301091and here come long-range Ukrainian drones. How many Russian oil refineries dis they hit last month?

@user-ru6yl9zr2z

29 күн бұрын

​@vp5209 and what it do to the front? Nothing.

@tomvlodek6377

26 күн бұрын

@@vp5209 who cares, ukraine won’t exist in 2025 😂

@tomvlodek6377

26 күн бұрын

@@user-ru6yl9zr2z nothing 😂

@tomvlodek6377

26 күн бұрын

@@user-ru6yl9zr2z it’ll help him cope 😂

In a war economy prices do not matter much, unless you can´t get hands on the ressources. And there we are: Russia does not get the high tech needed for such a tank and therefore simply can´t produce this tank. Also: this tank is pure crap and they know it. So they use other excusses for not producing it.

@Australiaisupsidedown

Ай бұрын

Yep!

@jade7631

Ай бұрын

That is suggesting tanks like the Abrams X is bad because they aren’t producing it. It could just mean it is to expensive, unnecessary, or simply takes to long to build. It was originally a technology demonstrator.

@elig3671

Ай бұрын

​@@jade7631Abrams x is on another level, pact with innovative tech like giving the crew the ability to see through and around the tank like an f35 pilot. While the t14 is just trying to be a regular modern abrams and failing.

@hermes667

Ай бұрын

@@jade7631 no. The Abrams is a fine tank, the T-14 is crap. But the Russians won´t get far with reverse engineering on captured Abrams tanks. They had good scientists and engineers, but their industry lacks the abilities. It is one thing to know how something works and another thing to produce it in a useable quality and quantity.

@jade7631

Ай бұрын

@@elig3671 Abrams X is a technology demonstrator. It will not be ready for at least half a decade. The T-14 was already in slow production. T-14 if matches what was speculated, out preforms the Abrams by a lot. We have already confirmed that a stripped down M1A2 can be killed with just a T-72B3M, and the T-14 was engineered to counter what the best the west has to offer. T-14 exist, while the Abrams X doesn’t.

tanks will not for long be so easy to kill. The drone problem will be solved soon. Active protection systems like iron first or Trophy will solve this. Artillery and mines will always remain a problem but thats the case for all

No army in their sensible mind will develop new tank before find a solution for the new threat. Ukrainian deployed some Abrams and it showed that even the Frontline western tanks facing big tactical issues with the new technology of drones and transparent battlefields

Turtle tanks are the future!!

Because the t14 is a good tank on paper only and it hasn't all the glorious capabilities that the sales pitch claim. And when in the real world of a real war, the sales pitch counts for nothing compared to the reality of high explosive anti tank weapons.

They never existed past the prototype rofl

@ACR909

Ай бұрын

I guess you've not seem them in parades?

@grovsmed4347

Ай бұрын

@@ACR909 weve seen the prototype yea. or would you send a extremly expensive tank to the front which even breaks down on a parade?

@bigmanrobert3610

21 күн бұрын

@@grovsmed4347 it didnt break down, can people stop repeating this lie its so stupid

Russia needs other countries to buy the T-14 to reduce the per unit costs through economy of scale before Russia they themselves can afford to buy them. Same with their fighter aircraft.

when flying stealth shovels and nuclear powered washing machine can do that work, why do Russian still need T14?

Its called the T-14 because it was supposed to come out in 2014

@bajorjor1

29 күн бұрын

There is always 2114

"Test Batch" ---> Testing whether the procedures for syphoning money into private overseas bank accounts are sufficiently robust. (The Test was Successful).

In general, during peace time it makes sense to produce your most advanced stuff. During war time it makes more sense to produce your simpler, more reliable equipment. Especially if your most modern equipment is shit.

Russia decides to cancel building the invincible T14 and concentrate on reintroducing T55's for year 3 of their 3 day SMO

@cruise_missile8387

Ай бұрын

When javelins will take out ANY of them equally well you use tanks primarily for things other than MBT on MMBT combat you might as well just slap some cheap upgrades on old ones and save money.

@Nottotti-eg9nf

Ай бұрын

3 day SMO? Said by who exactly? Cause I can't recall any Russian Officials saying such a line. It's almost as if that statement was made by an American General called General Milley. Cut it with the bs propaganda, it doesn't look good on you and plus it won't work on people who have 2 braincells that they can use to connect the dots.

In modern battlefield a TOP of line tank dies as easily as a T55. That mean it is nto worth to invest in expensive tanks.

@triage2962

24 күн бұрын

Yes and the T14 is literally the Russian version of a western Tank.

I think time has stopped for the production of new tanks for everyone until they find a way to protect the tank from drones.

@garethmartin6522

Ай бұрын

Yes exactly. Also the ubiquity of ATGM's. Heavy armour just doesn't work any more.

@LunaticTheCat

Ай бұрын

Although that may be true, that's not the reason Russia isn't procuring any T-14s

Well, yeah, it's kinda painful to manufacture a multi million dollar tank which can be destroyed by a 100$ drone.

The loitering/top-attack munitions problem needs to be mitigated before any more tanks are designed… 🙄

Tanks are a layer of weapon. Just like other weapons. No one weapon is the king of weapons. There is a counter weapon for every weapon.

Any question about the modern Russian military can usually be answered by "they can't afford it" or "they don't have the capacity to build enough"

@5gurus-bimiseveriz

14 күн бұрын

Yeah obviously lol, that’s what happens when you aren’t spending 800 billion dollars on “defense” (certified US of A moment) 😂😂😂

It needs to defend itself from drones, it makes no sense to build it otherwise

Not versed in this topic at all but having a hell of a time reading the comments.

It’s in a war. You have plants setup that can mass produce a tanks that’s 70% as good for 15% the price. Doesn’t need a video to explain this

@nightowl9519

Ай бұрын

Almost like any tank is better than no tank. Just waiting for a Stug 3 style vehicle to be introduced.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

Ай бұрын

The other way around. A manufacturer complained about the Russian government requiring an older BMP variant even though it was more expensive. Money is "cheap". It wouldn't matter if the Armata was the same cost, if the electronics required more lead time due to sanctions.

@aleksandarbogicevic5946

Ай бұрын

Im waiting for modernized t-34s just for the lols

@attilamarics3374

Ай бұрын

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Thats not exactly right, the exact interviews was that the government requested it, but they told them that it would be more expensive. Xou left out crucial parts of it.

@steezydan8543

Ай бұрын

Russia has been saying it's been producing T-14s for the past ten years now. They also initiated the Special Military Operation. The T-14 never existed, was never in production, and Russia started the war in Ukraine knowing full well the T-14 would never participate.

T-14 was also too big for existing facilities - just doesn't fit in storage and repair boxes built for Soviet tanks. So the saga ended by not choosing T-14, not even T-90, instead T-72B3 was picked as Russian standard MBT.

@eddgar-ce3md

29 күн бұрын

It was never meant for production anyway. They couldn't even make the X engine work, which is based on an old Austrian design, that no one used, because it doesn't work in a tank. While it looks great on paper, the engine is too complicated, requires a lot of maintenance and the cooling is a nightmare. They designed the hull around the engine. With a new engine, they have to redesign the hull. The tank is already too big, with a V engine, it will only get longer and heavier. And that's just one of the many issues the tank has.

remember when binkov got to talk about hypothetical war, rather than war? The days of affording at least 2 meals a day, even on a walmart salary, with manageable fuel prices? Yeah, me niether, thank you 2020s

@funkeyfreddy

Ай бұрын

Facts

Cost 5-20 million for one gen 5 tank just imagine how many 50$ drones u could buy with that kind of money… you could fill the sky with drones

@davout5775

Ай бұрын

The problem with that is $50 drones can easily be defeated by some more serious nation like the US that knows a thing or 2 about EW

@gaborrajnai6213

Ай бұрын

If that would be the case we would see it in Ukraine dont you think...@@davout5775

@someboi4535

Ай бұрын

​@@davout5775Russia literally has better EW than the US

@davout5775

Ай бұрын

@@someboi4535 Is that the reason why Russia is now making "tutel tanks"? Because they can't jam even basic, consumer-grade drones?

@GhostScout42

29 күн бұрын

@@davout5775 the turtle tanks have a drone jammer on it Ignoramous, and yes, Russia has always had better EW because that is how they decided to defend against US

Seems difficult to change lines of productions for a tank that still a new platform now that they're fighting a war. Plus tanks are at a dead end right now, as far as their combat role etc... So yeah modernizing relible current tanks seems to be more sensible

next gen tanks will need major anti-drone capabilities, significant top armor improvements, be unmanned or have a very snall crew, have hardened sensors that survive precision artillery and auto cannon fire, and have capabilities that allow them to spot for indirect fire rapidly and accurately in my very humble opinion we are about to see the most significant paradigm shift in tank design in 80-100 years

@wolven777

Ай бұрын

Spot on! There are two ways to go that I can think of, extreme mobility and camouflage or even more armoring, but tanks cannot remain unchanged.

@notaspy1227

Ай бұрын

Yeah, Russia can't afford the R&D for that and I don't think Iran and North Korea will be much help. At least Western designs are made around crew survival.

@JAy-dx1xb

Ай бұрын

​@@wolven777 ya and even with infinitry there gonna need anti drone capabilities to I've ben thinking shotguns and bird shot you don't have to destroy the Droid just down it

@wolven777

Ай бұрын

@@JAy-dx1xb I don't think armor can be reinforced without severe loss in mobility and a more difficult maintenance and logistic, unless they invent some ulra light extra hard armor. Russians are very good with low cost high practicality solutions, I bet we will soon see a turret with a shotgun that engages drones.

@JAy-dx1xb

Ай бұрын

@@wolven777 Russia built there military around that the Ukraine war just prove them right wars is not about technology its about how much you have and I believe most of there T model tanks use the same mechanism making logistics and field repairing easier I wish the usa would stop with there tech up multiple billion dollars tanks there good against goat farmers but a real army there are gonna have to be changes we haven't seen real large scale war from the usa since ww2

It’s clear to me that the T-14 is being cancelled in favor of the Blyatmobile.

@hectoraccented5312

Ай бұрын

That's the turtle tank first seen some weeks ago?

Ask not what you can do to the tank; ask what the tank can do to you.

Active defence systems and more top defence

Aslong an FPV Drone Costs like 200$ it doesnt matter how High Tech and expensive my Tank is aslong it isnt able to defend itself against these drones. I think, many countries currently overthink how they can counter the newly discovered threat. As for the Russians, currently, its smarter to buy/produce cheaper Tanks as they can do the same but for a smaller cost.

@user-lz1yb6qk3f

29 күн бұрын

Agreed. Old design concepts does not make sense on today battlefield. We need to return to the drawing board and come up with something that will penetrate modern defences.

@aynersolderingworks7009

28 күн бұрын

Tanks just need mounted AA guns, so the MGturrets will likely become autocannons turrets with a lot of automation to detect and shoot small drones

@PeterMuskrat6968

28 күн бұрын

Ahh, another person that doesnt understand the "race" part of an arms race. Electronic Warfare will get better, and already has, and those cheap drones will not be useful anymore. It's already starting, with drones being increasingly lost before they could be used because the EW jams them.

T14 tanks cost around $7M. For the same money, you could buy 20 -30 automated (crewless) Toyota pickups with bolted on light armour, mounted missiles, and 50cal machine guns. Given today's battlefield, I suspect the latter would be much more effective.

@bm952

Ай бұрын

Those are great mine removing vehicles

Ай бұрын

T14's don't exist, so no they don't.

@patrickdegenaar9495

Ай бұрын

I'm just going by the Wikipedia estimate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-14_Armata. But you are right. It is not in production. So the estimate is just that. Either way, my point was that a swarm of fast, cheap, automated, less-armored systems will as a whole survive longer and provide equal or greater firepower for the same amount of investment.

Ай бұрын

@@patrickdegenaar9495 Oh, like chinese golf carts? Now you are just makin' shit up...

@LunaticTheCat

Ай бұрын

You couldn't be more wrong

My thoughts are that the focus will be on modifying it to effectively counter drones, and, if that can be done, they then have a highly desirable product. If drones can be reliably countered, that is a major advantage.

@tiagodagostini

27 күн бұрын

They can. It is not so hard to make an automated small .50 scale turret that shot incomming drones. Problem is.. a constant radar emission would make it target of anti radiation missiles. Expensive tanks are not in a great position right now. Even the High end NATO tanks die as easily as the T72 (on side of ukraine) in this war.

@ic7481

27 күн бұрын

@tiagodagostini don't necessarily need radar - optical detection methods can be used. Anti-radar missiles seem overkill for a tank anyway.

@macfly6237

27 күн бұрын

@@tiagodagostiniThe Abrams still a wonderful tank and far surpasses anything Russia has in their armory and their production is so good that they can be made just as fast as the T-34

@tiagostein4057

27 күн бұрын

@@macfly6237 Way to miss the point. Ukraine losses of tanks be them T64 T72 LEopard , AMX or Abrams have been EXACTLY proportional to the quantity of these tanks they have. That measn that the amazing super advanced tanks die as easily as CRAP tanks in the modern battlefield.

@AMOUREDD

24 күн бұрын

The drones are a lot more movable than the gun, and the size of it🤏@@tiagodagostini

Thanks since their inception tanks have been imagined as some kind of invincible dominating power and tanks fighting other tanks. At the start they sure were a force to be reckoned with if they had adequate infantry support, but this has become less and less true. Intelligence is the true king of war and nowadays you have detection platforms (drones, satellites) that can detect pretty much anything and achieving surprise is almost impossible. Combined with the fact that if you can detect a threat you can most likely hit and disable it. Investing in big expensive tanks doesn't make that much sense when they can so easily be disabled.

@fuckoff4705

Ай бұрын

as opposed to any other war in history, in which knowing anything about your enemy wasn't valued????

There is another advantage to older and cheaper. Russia can no long produce some ofthe more advanced electro/optical components. I don't think the term "obsolete" is approriate. The tanks is presently less effective. Historically, being less effective does not make an item obsolete. Almost always, an item becomes obsolte when something(s) else can do the same job more effectively.

@Vlad_-_-_

Ай бұрын

Older and cheaper also means more crew that needs to be trained, more logistics involved for more vehicles, its not only advantages

@WRAAAMmh

Ай бұрын

Military tech might be an exemption to that rule. Advancements in firepower has made stuff like armor and fortifications (as they were) obsolete many times.

@Vlad_-_-_

Ай бұрын

@@WRAAAMmh Tech rules nowadays.

@HairLessBush

Ай бұрын

All the technology that Russia cannot produce now comes from china. That lack of technology talking point is old and debunked now. T14 just doesn't make strategic sense to mass produce when t90 is cheaper faster/easier to produce and is Battle tested and can do the job just as good if not better. Making a new tank puts strain on the logictis and production line because for menufacturing new tanks new supply chain / process's are needed to be established. So Russia just goes with t90 mass-producing since everything is already established and calibrated Russia just needs to ramp up production when russia needs more of it and looks like russia is doing just that.

Oh mah gaaaaaa. As if this opinion was already voiced 2 years ago but a random Scottish alcoholic.

Because it is a “prestige vehicle,” not a good one

Knowing how Russians do things to the letter of the law or contract, while killing the spirit of it, I'm willing to bet that those 20 original prototypes are the pre-production tanks also. I'm willing to bet that they only have 20 tanks, and those are the original prototypes, relabeled as pre-production pre-serial whatever. I'm also willing to bet, that they will send those pre-production tanks back to the factory and upgrade them and make into serial production number tanks, in addition to actually new production versions. The wording of all those contracts was just fudgy enough, to make me think that they're going to or have already massaged the meaning. The Kremlin is always about illusion, or grifting

@user-kc9nf5yq8n

Ай бұрын

поплачь в подушку, иллюзионист

@dominuslogik484

Ай бұрын

@@user-kc9nf5yq8n the real illusion is the 15 year old tank design still not put into actual production.

@user-kc9nf5yq8n

Ай бұрын

@@dominuslogik484 ты видимо просто тупой, в нем уже просто нет смысла, потому что сражения танк на танк редкость, а нужны Цари Мангалы для прорыва обороны и защиты от дронов + рабочие лошадки - Т-90, Т-72 б3 с мангалами и рэбами (которые у нас уже стоят, что там у вас по рэбам?) Но ты можешь сесть в свое высокотехнологичное гавно - Абрамс или Леопард, и сгореть там нахрен, не доехав даже до линии соприкосновения

@johnclay2716

Ай бұрын

@@dominuslogik484 15 year old design? You mean 35 year old design? T-14 is a late 80s Soviet design

@dominuslogik484

Ай бұрын

@@johnclay2716 when I say 15 years old im talking about the finalized design and not counting the time the Soviets did the heavy lifting then collapsed during the research stage.

Wonderwaffe failed to materialize in light of Blyat-Tank's introduction.

Everyone has already realized that the future belongs to “turtle tanks.”

@commissargeko4029

Ай бұрын

Reject modernity, return to StuG.

@ataksnajpera

Ай бұрын

No! It belongs to giant MECHs! Mechwarrior style!

Right now its all about how much it costs & how fast it can be produce.

The obvious answer is : Russia is not fighting a counter-insurgency warfare(For example Chenchen War and Battle of Marawi in Phillipines), instead they were waging attrition warfare(For example Second Sino Japanese War and the current War in Ukraine). T-14 wasn't adequate enough for the task, also you need to import military graded chips for the T-14 components as well.

So it’s exactly as everyone has been saying, they can’t afford it, just like the SU-57.

@ArmUkraine

Ай бұрын

Bro I’ve just argued with a rusky for 72 hours on the Su57. He tried to claim russia had 50 of them along with 20 Su75😂

@kiabtoomlauj6249

Ай бұрын

A nation with a GDP 50%, at the most optimistic estimate, of the GDP of the lazy, uneducated state of California can't afford to buy hundreds of high-end tanks, EVEN if it had the technologies & all components required, for mass production. And that's really the crux of the matter. While all these 6th-grade operated KZread channel trotted out this or that silly arguments, the fact of the matter is, Russia simply isn't capable of mass producing high-end military and consumer products. They could produce a few to a dozen or so, of these very sophisticated things (T-14, Su-57, etc).... very similar to what the US did with its SR-71 program back in the 1960s, when it didn't have enough high quality titanium. The US Pentagon/CIA used shell companies to import titanium from Russua/the USSR. But that kind of scheme, again, could only get you so far. Mass production is NEVER going to work. China is able to produce seemingly anything it needs, from a technology stand-point; but even China can't produce high-end semi-conductors/high-end chips (e.g., 5nm, 3nm, 2nm, and next generation kinds of chips that ALL AI COMPUTATION must have). China's scientists said, recently, they've been able to by-pass a certain man-made processes, when it comes to chip fabrication, etc. But, still, that's BARELY published in peer reviewed papers; that means the actual engineering part of such an approach is 10 or 15 years away.... assuming advances on THAT IDEA keep continuing.... In the mean time, China is stuck with largely 10nm & 7nm chips, the only ones she has the TOOLS to fabricate, with the most advanced laser tools and other essential electronic components from the US, Western Europe, etc. being restricted recently..... China likely has some reserves of 5nm for its own use; but Russia ian't getting none of it. BTW, Russia is a northern European country, just as highly literate and educated as its other northern European neighbors (Estonians, Fins, Swedes, Norwegians et al), and with 145M people, Russia has ZERO TECH COMPANY on the list of "The Top 100 biggest tech companies in the world." You simply can't mass produce high end products if you are THAT bad in the ENGENDERING and NURTURING of technologies and companies that deal with high-end tech. Russians are, again, IMMENSELY creative, due to their high education; but ZERO of them --- if they live in Russia ---- is going to come up with Google, IBM, Qualcomm, GoPro, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Toyota, Samsung, Apple, FB, KZread, TSMC, Intel, Nvidia, ASML, KlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Sanofi, Johnson-Johnson, Tesla, Merck, AstraZeneca, AbbVie, Roche, Novartis, Apple, Amazon, Broadcom, etc. 100% of the individual Russian Americans and Russians who've found giant tech companies like Google... they've gotten the phuc out of Russia. Or their parents did. Russia, as a society, is mired in primitive authoritarianism... from the Tsar to Stalin to Comrade GKB Col. Putin.... individuals inside Russia, again, simply can't fully express themselves and their ideas. There also is little to no finance. A dozen to a few hundred Oligarchs and Putin horded all the wealth dug up or sucked out of Russia's lands; and most of such wealth --- when they're converted to currencies ---- are stashed away in offshore accounts, invested in physical properties ("great arts," lands, super yachts, sporting teams, mansions & other real estates).... or buried back in the ground or kept in vaults.

@sujitbala1492

Ай бұрын

At least they are actually getting Su-57s, slow but steadily. 22 and counting, excluding prototypes. T-14 as far as I know isn't really ramping up production.

@sujitbala1492

Ай бұрын

​@@ArmUkraine Haha. That's not true. Su-75 is still in testing. But this Su-57 drama isn't really that bad as the T-14. Its a pretty good aircraft, definitely. And they've finally gotten the anticipated AL-51 engines and claimed to equip their R-37M Hypersonics in the internal weapons bay. That's a good achievement if you ask me. People saying its a trash aircraft are probably younger than 12 years old, or politically biased internet users. Its stealth may not be as good as an F-22, but the Su-57 still counts as a low observable RCS airframe. All those "exposed rivets and screws, fan blades" are from the prototype models for promotion. You cant find those in the serial production models. Even then, I myself have serious doubts on the F-22's stealth which apparently nobody is talking about. Rust have started to form on some of the airframes, and some of those older models have rust that look really really bad. Besides that, the F-22 is very notorious in maintenance. I've heard the RAM coating easily gets removed and 1 hour of flying time requires 17 hours of maintenance. I don't know how the F-22 is going to fare well in an active wartime scenario where resources would be scarce and the economy would take hits but hey, that's why we have the F-35, which is a less of a pain than the F-22.

@ArmUkraine

Ай бұрын

@@sujitbala1492 4

Always amused when a picture of any Russian authority figure is shown, they always look like a James Bond villain.

Eh, AbramX moving to three crew in the hull was a development concept by the company, that does not necessarily mean the US Army is planning on doing the same with their M1A3.

@honkhonk8009

29 күн бұрын

That wasnt the US Army or any state contracted thing. It was mostly a company making a few upgrades to sell to other countries.

It is a cryptid of a tank. T-14 seems like a shell concept with no combat reports to take from. They appear then disappear.

@Vandelberger

Ай бұрын

@@foundones That is a foolish comparison. The Bradley is from the early 80s and simply troop transports with TOW missiles, but two quickly took out a T-95 pretty quickly due to the essential technology allowing them to drive and shoot at the same time. This is something most Russian tanks can’t due, at least not at any speed.the Bradley also have had few to no casualties when disabled. None have been full wipe outs crew and all.

Basically the Battleship in 1941

I highly doubt the T-14 was ever used in Ukraine. Both sides film everything, and we never got a single geolocated photo of one. And I suspect Russia concluded that the negative propaganda of T-14’s getting blown up would far overshadow any small advantage the tank would bring to the battlefield.

It needs to be redesigned, or better a new tank designed from the ground up to defend against drones and top attack ATGMs. The T-14 was designed before the Ukraine War, so it was designed before a good understanding of what threats tanks face on the modern battlefield would be. I think a new tank needs to be designed from the ground up to deal with both threats innately. My crazy ideas! Have drones affixed to the surface of the tank. These drones would be kinda like reactive armor, except they can move around and fly. When a threat is detected, either a drone, or an ATGM (including top attack), the drone detaches and flies out to intercept the threat and destroy it. Ideally, these drones should be kinda like robotic beetles i.e. ornithopters. We have built ornithopters before, but never a robotic flying beetle, but it can be done! The drones also double as reactive armor so even if a drone isn't detached in time, it can still protect the tank as normal reactive armor. Think of them as armor that moves. They can move around the tank and protect the parts of the tank that are most vulnerable at a given time. The drones could also be used offensively, and attack infantry and light vehicles, and possibly even some low flying aircraft. Another idea would be to use either these drones, or another kind of drone to surveil the area, and improve the situational awareness of the tank. Basically the solution to drones, is to not beat them, but join them!

Tanks need a complete redesign to be effective in the modern battlefield. As of right now they are built to be the strongest against taking direct fire shots from the front. But 60% of Rush's tank losses were from drones, and even a lot more anti-tank missiles are starting to have top attack capability. So building a tank with all the armor concentrated on the front is outdated and 20th century thinking. Also tank on tank almost never happens anymore.

The Turtle Tank was more successful than the T14

@springbloom5940

Ай бұрын

...and the Leopard 2... and the Challenger 2... and the Abrams...

@skkhammuansangngaihte4989

Ай бұрын

​@@springbloom5940all these tanks would obliterate any russian tank in open combat like during gulf war

@abas656thegodemperor9

Ай бұрын

expecting a conflict like that is naive at best, warfare changes and so should tanks,tanks arent gonna reach an end all be all stage,there will be pros and cons to every tank,just as there was in the gulf war.​@@skkhammuansangngaihte4989

@PadparadZha27

Ай бұрын

@@skkhammuansangngaihte4989 "like during the gulf war" it's like having a M60 shooting at a T-34, poorly trained Iraqi tankers in rotting T-55's and T-72's vs modernized M1's isn't a good comparison.

@skkhammuansangngaihte4989

Ай бұрын

@@PadparadZha27 russian tanks still would likely lose to most tanks of west under normal convenient fight.Unless they fought the nato tanks from 1980s

I think the answer is pretty easy because the Russians don't want to spend a staggering amount of money on a vehicle that we could easily refer to as a Russian "Abrams" (even though they look nothing alike) and have to deal with all the problems that come with it. . a tank of such size and weight, vehicles that are clearly not very appropriate for the geography of the country. On the contrary, they prefer to continue with the standards they are accustomed to in medium-weight, easily adaptable and cheap tanks like the T-80 and T-90. Regarding these tanks, I believe that sooner or later Russia will unify them into a single platform to which they will be able to adapt the type of armament and engine necessary with minimal factory modifications, a cheap universal chassis that they will be able to mass produce on a unified production line. , or at least that is the impression I get from the development of practically all Russian vehicles today.

@phoenix211245

Ай бұрын

You are assuming that Russia will exist 10 years from now, which is a rather major requirement in building new tank models. Regardless of how the war in Ukraine goes, it's a second Afghanistan, and we all know what happened to USSR after. It's simply economically unsustainable, but we do get to watch them spew out nuclear threats every month or so, here's some fun to be had.

@graham5716

Ай бұрын

​@phoenix211245 Your delusional if you think Russia is done for after this war lmao

@phoenix211245

Ай бұрын

@@graham5716 I thought I was delusional to think that USSR would collapse in 1990, yet it happened. I'm living through the beginning of Russia's collapse right now. There is A LOT of internal tension. You are delusional if you think that the country will exist in 10 years. It's rather silly to believe a country that disintegrates every 50-60 years will last.

@phoenix211245

Ай бұрын

@@graham5716 same could have been said about the USSR, and where is in now?

@SanarySeggnete

Ай бұрын

For Russia, even if they lose, it would be just another Crimean War... (They lost the Crimean War as the whole Europe sided with Ottoman, but they in the end won by tired out the European countries, that none cares if they broke the war treaty, invaded Ottoman some years later and achieved their goal). But they are winning in the battlefield, and the situation in their home ground is not as bad as 1942 (when Soviet almost bankrupted due to corruption and the fragmentation inside their Party after the Great Purge), Russia is still in their comfortable zone (not your normal standard comfortable zone, of course...)

2 reasons: 1. The engine is terrible and can't get fixed 2. It doesn't exist. Just hilariously bad prototypes

@yarnickgoovaerts

Ай бұрын

You probably think it uses the Tiger P engine right?

@cutedogsgettingcuddles9862

Ай бұрын

Lazerpig did a great episode on this, really shows the effects of brain drain.

@voidtempering8700

Ай бұрын

​@@cutedogsgettingcuddles9862His video was full of errors, it absolutely is not good.

@cutedogsgettingcuddles9862

Ай бұрын

@@voidtempering8700 Settle down, Scott Ritter.

@voidtempering8700

Ай бұрын

@@cutedogsgettingcuddles9862 ?

I'm surprised and it makes sense, it would be more useful as an test demo for the T-90/80

I honestly think now would be a great time for every military to reevaluate their tank designs and their fundamental role in warfare. Take a pause, build what you're already building if it is still needed, but go back to the drawing board for anything else in the future

T-14 is in the same boat as SU-57: unaffordable for Russia.

@Digital_Griffin

Ай бұрын

They were probably hoping to export both of those to other countries in order to subsidize development and production, but the war has largely put a stop to that. The Russian military just doesn't buy enough of them on its own to justify extremely expensive, bleeding-edge development programs

If you ask me (I know you didn't but hey, here is my opinion anyway :D ) tanks won't become obsolete; you need something well armored on the battlefields to support your infantries, because only with artillery and airforce bombardments, you can't occupy a territory and push out enemy forces from there in a long term - so instead, they (I mean tanks) will evolve in a way what would be similar to future planes/air units; one Human Controlled expensive MBT will supervise and command 4-5-6-7...you name it, AI controlled smaller and most importantly, Cheaper armored vehicles what you can even sacrifice for a greater benefit without going home later with coffins in hands. And of course, all of the vehicles (including the "human one") will be connected in a " swarm network" with every other friendly units on the battlefield: what a unit's camera or radar already saw and learned, the other units will know that too 1 sec later, even without like, for example, entering the same building, or cross the same river, etc. etc. Finally, I would like to mention that I really like your final words on the video; I may sounded "funny" at the beginning of my comment but seriously, I do agree w you: only with PEACE we humans can achieve great things, and what we really need is not more wars but to save humanity and other lifes on Earth in long terms by reducing our (humanity's) negative foot prints on our COMMON planet, and by creating bases and DNS, DNA safe banks on other planets, because you have to face it: no matter what we do, Earth is going to die at some point and Only Together we can slow down this process and more importantly, find and secure new homes for our grandchildren and for our successors on other planets. This is not sci-fi. This is the Absolute Reality... and yes, we All could be a smaller or a bigger part of these positive changes - if we want .

@AnmolX-jw8jr

Ай бұрын

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@Szakterix

Ай бұрын

@@AnmolX-jw8jr I had some free time today to do that :P

Really depends on air superiority. If you don’t have it, tanks will be very vulnerable. It really is too expensive, though. They were never able to scale production enough to lower costs.

And nobody else around here has a T-14 hyperdrive I promise you that!

@XerrolAvengerII

Ай бұрын

😂

No production line for the T-14 was ever set up. The few existing prototypes were 'manually assembled'. It's similar for the Su-57 Felon; when India withdrew from the program, there were no foreign buyers for the aircraft, hence the program stalled. No foreign buyers means no funding. The existing fleet of Su-57 are equipped with an old engine instead of the intended new design. Not stealth either.

@ianlarge9016

Ай бұрын

Any prototype is produced manually by definition as they are small production batches. You don't automate production for prototypes due to the cost outlay involved.

If Russia is ever able to gain air superiority and successfully conduct combined arms operations, the T-14 will be useful. There is no sign this will happen though, so the T-14 is lost to history and likely will be replaced in the future with a tank better adapted to modern battlefield conditions.

@shuathe2nd

Ай бұрын

With russia turning into North Korea as each day passes it will likely be replaced by some T-72 derived bag ofspanners, but with some plastic mouldings to bring it up to date.

@macmcleod1188

Ай бұрын

The T14 is just too expensive in a world of drones.

@milaro222

Ай бұрын

@@shuathe2nd Ukraine is turning into North Korea with closed borders and a totalitarian ideology, not Russia.

I think a "Loyal Tankman" program would be effective where one of them specializes in anti-drone

Not outdated , but the separate armoured crew module is unnecessary. Plus, all its systems can be integrated into a legacy design. Merkava mk5, type10, Altay etc are examples.

with the drones, tanks are prety useless these days. you can buy like 500 drones for the price of one tank and you can kill like 100s of enemy tanks with 500 drones.

@tedarcher9120

Ай бұрын

Active protection system can defend the tank

@nicholasgutierrez9940

Ай бұрын

@@tedarcher9120Not against 100, 200? It’s cost effectiveness. But armies still need tanks for breakthroughs.

@lancerevo9747

Ай бұрын

​@@tedarcher9120drones can attack in large numbers.

You dont need any tanks if you have a lot of biomaterial zombies😂

@siddh6593

28 күн бұрын

like ukranians

@ineedapharmists

27 күн бұрын

​@@siddh6593cope harder

In essence, when a country's MOD/DoD reduces the quantity of serial production, the more expensive a single unit becomes.

"Quantity has a quality all its own." - Stalin

Probably because they're smarter than everyone thats just plowing ahead with tanks and other systems they started before the Ukraine proving ground proved them wrong.

It's light tanks with APS and IFV with anti-tank capabilities thats winning this race.

Panzer 2 meta here we go. Seriously since we found ways how to make armor almost obsolete the more important thing will be to make the things cheap and in large numbers. If you have 1000 missiles you can defeat 500 tanks but not 2000 even if you hit and destroy them with each shot.

@lepetitroquet9410

Ай бұрын

But 2000 tanks will consume four times as much fuel as 500 and require four times more crews (including maintenance), along with that much more logistic to move them around. And all you've done is create a demand for even more AT missiles. And if you make your tanks so cheap and dirty that AT missiles are barely worth firing at them, suddenly many other weapons become available to deal with your tank, a tank that will struggle to fulfill its mission to begin with. I mean, what do you take away to make it cheaper ? Armor ? Optics ? Gun stabilizer ? Engine power ? The gun ;p ? ps: a low armor, lower calibre gun tank is called a bradley. A tank without modern optics (so bad/no night vision and difficulty to see the opponent ww2 style) and a gun stabilizer (so forced to stop completely to have a chance to shoot with accuracy) is called a perfect target for everybody else on the battlefield. 10,000 bob semple tanks wouldn't really be of much help tbh...

@cruise_missile8387

Ай бұрын

Armor and active protection systems will inevitably improve like everything else

Simple answer Drones.

@Rehunauris

Ай бұрын

It's also cheaper to send soldiers towards enemy lines in Chinese golf carts than in armored vehicles. Of course that only works when country doesn't really care about numbled of casualties.

@TGTexan

Ай бұрын

@@Rehunauris I got a genuine question, How do you assault trenches? Almost all the videos except those early days of the invasion were Russian soldiers assaulting trenches with tanks and BMPs Plus artillery coverage, I mean during bakhmut arc, they were pummeling everything using FABs And 152s and 207s before launching a ground assault. If thats what you called running towards enemy lines, what is the best way to assault a trench or a fortified enemy. Genuinely asking here. Plus I saw this Ukrainian Media I think its Ukraine24 Yt channel, they were encircled by the russians, and the commander of the company himself told the journalist that Russians have the habit of shelling the positions for 24/7 and after that they will roar the Tank's Engine to signal the start of assault and he jokingly stated "we know their tactics very well but what can we do we are outnumbered, no ammos, and outgunned". The shoer documentary ended with russians shouting at them on the nearby houses demanding for their surrender. And If thats what you call sending soldiers toward enemy lines with gold carts, Idk what to believe anymore. All I see is them on the top of BMPs escorted by tanks assaulting trenches.