The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines

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The Two Legends

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Oops.

 

BMD dropping from sky in Russia without the parachutes opening

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDTtiitYPo

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Intereseting thing about this is that that Bulgaria and the USSR were the only nations to adopt the T-62

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"Just add a bit more wehraboo tears right here comrade"

 

 

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I dont think there were any Shermans in service in the 70s in HATO

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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.

 

Looks like Kubkina is still confusing the Object 435 and Object 432 (T-64), or this guy is an idiot.

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"Just add a bit more wehraboo tears right here comrade"

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is this, early 1941 MG ball on a T-34-85? No tank rider rails? External fuel tanks mounted in combat? Burn this heresy and make it again!

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What is this, early 1941 MG ball on a T-34-85? No tank rider rails? External fuel tanks mounted in combat? Burn this heresy and make it again!

 

 

This is how Wehrabooism started.  Due to the dispersed, batch nature of German tank production, and the frequent interruptions of supplies caused by Allied strategic bombing, basically almost any combination of parts was *possible*.

 

"Hey, check out my new model!"

"Dude, your panther Ausf. G clearly has an Ausf. A rounded shot-trap mantlet."

"That's totally intentional!  The early batches of Ausf. G's still had the old mantlets because they had a ton of them lying around."

"And it has an Ausf. D cupola and machine gun mount."

"The early Ausf. A's had Ausf D face-hardened glacis plates.  It's clearly still possible."

"And the roadwheels appear to be made of Ritz crackers."

"Expedient production substitution to deal with petroleum shortages."

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So It turns out the main reason the T-64 wasn't the main and only tank of the Red Army was that Kharkov was literally the only place that could manufacture the T-64.

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ERA explosive elements. Left to right: 4S20 from "Kontakt"; 4S22 from "Kontakt-5" and 4S24 from "Relikt".

 

Sizes of each are 252x130x13 mm, except 2S24, which is 252x130x10 mm. 4S24 have lowest explosive power in TNT equivalent - 0,14 kg.

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So It turns out the main reason the T-64 wasn't the main and only tank of the Red Army was that Kharkov was literally the only place that could manufacture the T-64.

 

Also the Red Army hasn't existed for a few decades by the time the T-64 was in production.

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You clearly haven't read his alternate history fic.

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You clearly haven't read his alternate history fic.

 

What do you take me for, a Kharkovite?!?!

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Everyone should download this for their collection, even if they can't read Russian.

 

Т-34. Первая полная энциклопедия

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So the Object 279 transmission was an automatic and not manual, I wonder why they decided to go that route.

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Everyone should download this for their collection, even if they can't read Russian.

 

Т-34. Первая полная энциклопедия

 

thanks! 

 

So the Object 279 transmission was an automatic and not manual, I wonder why they decided to go that route.

 

it was kinda popular in its day

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So the Object 279 transmission was an automatic and not manual, I wonder why they decided to go that route.

 

 

Most tanks designed since the mid Cold War have automatic transmissions.

 

Tanks aren't long-haul big rig trucks; their ability to start and stop and accelerate well on uneven surfaces and dash from location to location is important, possibly moreso than their cruise efficiency.

 

With an automatic gearbox, you give up some cruise efficiency, but power is always going to the sprockets during gear changes.

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Object 279 autoloader and testbed. So it seems to me all the loader would have to do was press the button and the autoloader would load the shell into the breech and then put the propellent case in the breech himself.

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You can see that there's a chain-driven rammer.  I think the projectile gets rammed home, and then the loader plops the propellant charge onto the tray and the rammer puts that in next.

 

Note also that it's a late model of the M-65 gun with the combustible stub case.

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Object 279 autoloader and testbed. So it seems to me all the loader would have to do was press the button and the autoloader would load the shell into the breech and then put the propellent case in the breech himself.

 

 

You can see that there's a chain-driven rammer.  I think the projectile gets rammed home, and then the loader plops the propellant charge onto the tray and the rammer puts that in next.

 

Note also that it's a late model of the M-65 gun with the combustible stub case.

 

 

Think of it like the 152 SPH's, they put the shell on the tray and its loaded

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Object 279 armor schematics.

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ISIS, airstrikes, how to al-maskirovka-arabi.

 

 

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ISIS, airstrikes, how to al-maskirovka-arabi.

 

 

 

having that 100mm stick out might defeat the purpose, then again its better than just praying the F-15s are busy nuking someone else