The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines

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Sprut firing in slow-mo.

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What gun is the Sprut packing?  Looks impressive firing.

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Same gun as a T-90.  It's a whole lot of firepower for something that light.

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Handles the recoil pretty well. Espically when compared to the Stryker MGS

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Handles the recoil pretty well. Espically when compared to the Stryker MGS

Wow?  That's a 125?  Yeah, that's super impressive. Great recoil dampening.  Would love to see the turret/ gun mount design.

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Sprut-SDM1 details.

 

 

 

 

 

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Vehicle to mine big fields.

 

 

New unknown model of Kamaz

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'Yuri, we are buried in a snowdrift!'

 

:Comrade, have no fear, we shall just fire the main gun a couple of times and we shall be free. Snow cannot stop glorious Russian engineering!"

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Speaking about this new Kamaz.

 

 

This is KamAZ-78504 multipurpose 8x8 truck created under "Platforma-O" program. 2 or 3 models expected to be made - with 50, 75, 90-120 tons carrying capacity  

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A truck on a truck!? That's some mad recursion right there.

[Meplat]

T-90A turret roof, tank was produced in 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

Going to guess that the number-masked rearward facing lamp on/by the mast is some kind of IR identifier?

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why do you have a Lecrec Sig again?

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It's a glorious product of russian tank design

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Soviet version of the S-Tank

 

The "all in the hull" layout, designed with a gun in the hull immobile in the horizontal plane, was explored in the USSR long before the Swedish Strv-103 turretless tank, known as S-tank. In 1955, VNII-100 explored the idea of aiming the gun with rotation of the hull. Work was performed using the chassis and armament of the T-10 heavy tank. Turning of the hull was done with a secondary 4MI-22S electric motor, powered by a special reductor between the electric motor and planetary transmission. The oscillating section of the M-62T2 gun was housed in the immobile armoured casemate. Two ammunition loading mechanisms were lined up behind it, for the shell and propellant.
The first trials demonstrated excellent precision when aiming the weapon. It was discovered that, with this method of aiming, mechanizing loading was much easier. It was also possible to lighten the vehicle by 500-700 kilograms. Along with the positive qualities, the construction of the tank became more complicated, as a secondary mechanism was needed, and, most importantly, the maneuverability of fire depended on the maneuverability of the vehicle. Such aiming method was deemed unacceptable, and work in that direction ceased. It was not possible to fire on the move in conditions of modern maneuverable war. Additionally, in order to aim, the tank had to rotate its entire hull, showing it to the enemy. The Strv-103 remained the only mass produced turretless tank created after WWII, really being a very well designed SPG that served as a tank destroyer.

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Soviet version of the S-Tank

 

they had the good sense to actually call it a self propelled gun and not an MBT like those insidious blonds in Sweden do

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Cue multiple members of this forum losing it simultaneously:

Hey, cut him some slack, he's a gun guy, not an armor guy.

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Cue multiple members of this forum losing it simultaneously:

Hey, cut him some slack, he's a gun guy, not an armor guy.

Failure!?

 

Your video is a failure 

 

whichever Russian said it was a failure is now demoted to Pole (lowest level of slav) 

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T-72s, T-72s everywhere.

 

 

 

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Going to guess that the number-masked rearward facing lamp on/by the mast is some kind of IR identifier?

Yeah, it is.

 

 

why do you have a Lecrec Sig again?

It is a Soviet tank disguised as NATO tank. Crew of 3, autoloader, ammorack right in the crew compartment, low weight, etc. 

 

It's a glorious product of russian tank design

Exactly!

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