Akula_941

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

Chinese BMPT xaxaxaxa )))))

Chinese BMPT xaxaxaxa )))))

The first ever real cut-off of 5.8x42 DVC-12 AP rounds

bullet weight 5.47g
penetrator is tungsten carbide 3.5g
that little BB is made by lead

Mock up of Object 490.

Dat autoloader

Supremacy of glorious T-72 over filthy Kharkovite tractor
 

"Our newest weapon!"

 

 

For future use

Uran-9. 

 
 

@Akula_941
Sprut-SDs and stealth BMD-4

PDF was found from 21st Russian scientific-practical conference "Problems of defence and security", speaking about combat robotics - projects, Uran-9 perfomance in Syria (will cover that in separate post), integration and so on.
https://ppt-online.org/361075
 
List of R&Ds

another slide with pics of some of those vehicles:
 
R&D Tachanka-B - creation/project of heavy chassis for creation of heavy assault robots, using T-14 as basis. Probably this:
Second slide notes versions with 125 and 152 mm guns.
 
Armata project - vehicles on universal heavy chassis that can work as basis for other R&Ds. R&D Gruppirovka (Grouping) - research of autonomous movement and control of groups of medium and heavy class robots R&D "Shturm" (Assault) - automated system of coordination of robots during execution of tasks of ground forces, including assault operations Medium class of robots from that presentation:

Slides also notes 2 versions - with 57 mm autocannon or 30 mm. 
 
Command vehicle:

 

LoooSeR; good question...first of all, it was right in the middle of the two most significant Soviet Army events of the 1960s: exercise Dnepr in 1967 and Operation Danube (the invasion of Czechoslovakia), in 1968. These two events shaped the Soviet Army of the Cold War and provided very real rehearsals for WWIII. You're correct, the SU-122-54 was the product of the Soviet Army experience in WWII...especially during the Manchuria campaign against the Japanese. The Soviets developed tactics for combined-arms organizations known as "Assault Groups," "Storm Teams," and "Forward Detachments," with assault guns/tank destroyers at their core. After the war, the SU-122-54 (probably known as the SU-122 (M1954) by the Soviets), was secretly fielded in companies/batteries that were organic to select/high-priority MRRs and TRs. As mentioned above, the SU-122-54 was deployed for both Dnepr and Operation Danube.                 
 
Since it wasn't forward deployed in the Groups, it was almost missed by Western intelligence through it's development, short life, and death (at Khrushchev's hand...guns bad, missiles good). The first mention of the SU-122-54 in an official US military reference manual was in a USMC MCIA manual in 1996...that's 41 years after it was fielded by the Soviet Army. There was limited intel available on this vehicle as early as 1958 but most of it was Top Secret so it didn't reach many folks in the field. The CIA gave it the designation SU-100 (M1968).
 
I could go on...the SU-122-54 truly made the D-25 122mm main gun (versioned for the SU-122-54 as the D-49), what it was meant to be...etc.
 

     
 

T-90S with Abrams

各位最近可能在WT论坛上见过这张图片，在一些争论陆上自卫队90式战车的讨论串里：
Some of you may have seen this pic recently on WT forum, in some thread arguing the protection of JGSDF Type 90: 
Discussion on WT forum
 

 
我就直说吧，表格里的中文注解说了，这不过是个“猜想”，GUESSING。
To be straight, the Chinese annotation in the table said it is just a GUESSING.
注解内容可能完全是编造的，但不幸的是，不同语言间的障碍使你们无法看穿这点。
This annotation could be totally nonsense but unfortunately a barrier between languages prevent you guys see throught it. 
 
实际上，这又是一份关于陆上自卫队10式战车的文件，说的并不是90式。
In fact, again, this document itself is about JGSDF Type 10 MBT, not Type 90.
同样的花招，不一样的人，是吧？
Same trick, different people, huh?

↑陆上自卫队的10式战车规格书
JGSDF specification handbook of Type 10 MBT

↑59页，附录B，性能(规定)以及诸元
page 59, Appendix B, performance (regulations) and data
 
下面简要说说这些性能规定如何编写、如何加密。
Let's talk about these regulations and how they were made and encrypted. 
 
大家可能知道日语中有平假名和片假名，和拉丁语中的字母还有大写字母是差不多的。
You may know that Japanese have Hirakana and Katakana, like Latin have letters and capital letters. 
 
正如图中所示，一些最关键的数值和描述用平假名、片假名、罗马字(拉丁字母)隐去了。
As you can see, some of the most crucial numbers and descriptions are covered by a Hirakana or Katakana or Romaji(Latin letters).
 
这些数值和描述被归在一起，编入附属的手册，称为“别册”。
These numbers and descriptions were collected and listed in some append book, called Bessatsu(別冊). 
 
在查阅别册时，就好比在看试卷的答题卡。但如果把别册里面的数值和描述涂黑，你就根本不知道说啥。
When you look up to the append book, just like viewing the answer sheet of an exam paper. But when numbers and descriptions were censored, you'll never know what it said. 
 
比如说，正面防护：
For example, the frontal protection: 
 
“耐弾性 - 正面 - 正面要部は、【あ】に射距離【え】m相当存速において、貫徹されない。”
 
读起来是这样的：
耐弹性 - 正面 - 正面重要部位可抵御【あ】以相当于射击距离【え】米存速的射击，不会贯穿。
It read like this: 
Protection - Frontal - Frontal crucial part should withstand 【あ】 firing at a distance of 【え】meter speed reduce equivalent, and not penetrate. 
 
【あ】代表某种弹药，可能是尾翼稳定穿甲弹，但不知道是量产弹种还是实验弹种。
【あ】stands for certain type of ammunition, probably APFSDS, but don't know whether it is production shot or experimental.
 
【え】代表某个射击距离，可以是1000、1500或2000(米)，但这么远的距离，炮弹会受到风力和重力影响，故无法精确瞄准靶车的防护区域。
【え】stands for certain firing distance, could be 1000 , 1500 or 2000 (meters), but on such a long distance, shot could be effect by wind and gravity, thus cannot aim on the protection area of target vehicle precisely.
 
一个常见的解决方式是在更近的距离上开火，比如说200到550米，同时减少推进药量，使得穿甲弹的终点速度符合特定距离的速降。这是一种等效方法。
The usual solution is to fire from a much closer range, from 200 to 550 meters, while reducing the propellant charge so that the end speed of AP shot could match the speed drop on certain distance. This is an equivalant method. 
 
有的人争辩说90式战车可以抵挡另一辆90式战车发射的穿甲弹(JM33)，距离大约250米。这一说法源自一段未知视频片段，具体什么视频他们自己也没看过。较近的射击距离是为了能更好的瞄准，为此可能使用了减装药来模拟远距离终点速度，但也无法证明。
Some people argue that Type 90 MBT can withstand AP shot (JM33) firing from another Type 90 MBT, on a distance about 250 meters. The source of this statement came from an unknown video clip, which they have never seen. Firing on closer range is for better aim, and they could have use reduced charge to simulate a much longer range, but we cannot prove.