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Ukrainian armor - Oplot-M, T-64M Bulat and other.

LoooSeR

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T-72MP (for export, from late 90s) with 6TD-1 engine.      T-72MP was joint French-Czech-Ukrainian project of T-72 modernisation, offered for export. First time it was shown in 199

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It doesn't matter for whom Oryx works or whom he supports. The point is that majority of the documented losses on his blog are real. Most of them have gigantic letters Z and V written on them and a la

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Proper, god-fearing Soviet tanks use four-stroke diesel engines.  When the tank is cruising, the engine should be happy and produce very little smoke.  But when the engine is suddenly changing RPM, th

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It's possiblle

 

then again, the same could be said for western guns aswell

Hell, the fact that Russia and China are sticking with the 125mm shows that they are confident in it over the L-55 sized 120mm's 

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>recongnizes the superioty of 125mm

>has Mikhail Kalashnikov avatar 

 

Your gonna fit in here mike 

Ha... 

Those are claimed numbers. That is my point - how they work in real life is unknown. Did they managed to make ammunition good enough to meet given specs? IDK.

True, and we won't be seeing exact performance numbers for a long time. Vacuum's figures were supposedly actually tested and confirmed, but my knowledge of this is shaky. AFAIK Russia has a APFSDS family in development that is based on the Vacuum series, but actually superior to it (Vacuum's were first developed in the mid-90's IIRC).

 

 - China's 125 is actually a necked-up, modified version of the German 120 mm. Clearly they value the extra 5 mm. 

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Photos from Facebook, Kharkov factory, T-80BVs. 

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Fuel tank/ammunition storage box. Wet ammorack, indeed!

 

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This is how densely packed are T-64-90 tanks are.

 

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Turret with autoloader on the crane.

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When did the T-64/T-80 family switch from the half-length compound torsion bars to the conventional torsion bars you can see above?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fuel tank/ammunition storage box. Wet ammorack, indeed!

 

 

 

A number of tanks try to protect the ammo stowage with a fuel tank.  It doesn't work.

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