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I think that vehicle would fare fairly well in conflicts like the SCW.

Which makes me wonder why did they delay its exhibition and delivery until now. Instead of sending refurbished T-62M and T-72AV they could have invested a little bit more money, then profit on the fame it will get.

I dunno about that, knowing the SAA they'll surely find a way to fuck it up royally.

They could always send Russian troops to man it, then instruct SAA soldiers on how to operate them.  They do have their fair share of experienced, capable operators.

Well, compared to Turkish army Leo 2s, SAA handles T-90 not that badly.
 
Ural MRAP with a bit strange-shaped compartment for troops.

Interesting Soviet Autoloader project for 1+ m rounds
 

 
http://btvt.info/5library/vop_1981_97_az.htm

The publish date is 1981.

it's I suppose from VNIITransmash
70-s - ealy 80s
maybe has some connection to this -

http://btvt.info/5library/vbtt_79_02_vnii.htm

Очи жгучие, и прекрасные
 

Part 5
 
Izdelie 480
 

 
      Not much information is known about Izdelie 480, appart from the fact that it was a "back up"/Plan B concept for T-74. As you can see on the model it have Active protection system based on "Drozd" (or early model/proposal of "Drozd").
 


 
      Note a shape of the frontal hull armor - later similar frontal hull part would be used on others Soviet MBT projects.
 
      Here is Object 187 with it:

 
 
 
Object 187
 

It looks very much like T-90.
 
     Speaking about Object 187, it was another project of Soviet MBT which was in development in 1986-1988. Object 187 was under development in parallel with Object 188 (which we will know as T-90). Main goal for this program was to increase protection of T-72 to T-80U level. But UVZ team viewed Object 187 as future Soviet/Russian MBT, so they went beyond simple increase of armor. 
     Engineers changed shape of the frontal part of T-72 hull, which now did not had a famous weakspot, that was jokingly called "cleavage" (weakspot in upper frontal plate becuase of the driver optics, all T-64s, T-72s and T-80s have them).
 
     Object 187 also had new welded turret, which was implemented later in ~2004-2005 in T-90A and new gun mantlet. 
 
 
    Main gun was D-91T (2A66) from Factory N9 in Sverdlovsk, which is believed to be more powerfull gun than 2A46. It was equipped with muzzle brake to decrease recoil.
 
 
     Object 187 was planed to be equipped with new ERA, known as "Malakhit", which later will become Relikt ERA (ERA with 2 opposite moving plates instead of 1 in Kontakt-5). 
 
     6 Objects 187 were build for testing, with prototype number 5 and 6 being most advanced. N1 had 840HP V-84MS engine, N2 was tested ith KD-34 1000 HP V-shaped diesel engine, N3 received engine compartment from T-80U with GTD-1250 gas turbine, developing 1250 HP. N4 got fancy X-shaped 1200HP A-85-2 diesel from Chelyabinsk. Weight of new tank reached 55 tons. Overall, internal layout of the vehicle was made less cramped, which would allow to increase modernisation potential for a tank in the future. 
 
     Object 187 was never adopted to service because new Russian Federation state went with cheaper Object 188. Several prototypes survived in Kubinka museum "sump", in bad conditions.  

All I can offer is that "the M-18 is "easy" to drive for ww2 era armor".  (And I've driven "a few" examples of armor of the era.)
It's still terrifying at at speed. As in "Bring a change of skivvies,and/or another pair of trousers".

Speaking of Allison Transmission, they must have had some sort of corporate policy to try to keep their engineers from ever getting laid.  I mean, how else do you explain this promotional item from Allison that recently came into my possession?
 
Imagine some poor Allison engineer sitting in a bar.  A woman comes up to him and asks for a light.  He reaches into his pocket to fish out what looks like a normal pack of matches.
 

 
He then proceeds to open the match book, only to reveal that it is not matches at all, but actually a tiny pocket calculator.
 

 
At this point the woman rolls her eyes and walks away while the poor engineer rather hopelessly tells her he can calculate some sums for her.
 

So the matches, don't work?

nope, they are plastic.  Unfortunately, the battery powering the calculator went dead long ago. I suppose I could go get a new one, it's a 389A battery. 

What is even weirder is that they thought that was something they actively needed to stop.  Have they met engineers?

It seems that the issue of front vs rear drive sprocket has been a hot topic lately.  Here is the oldest document I know of that addressed the issue.  From "The Fighting Tanks" from 1933 by Icks, Rarey and Jones.
 
Basically, they seem to think that rear mounted engine and final drives are ideal, although they note that transmission in the front with engine in the rear makes for better weight balance and that the rear idler will kick most of the mud off the track before it reaches the sprocket, which may be "a slight advantage."
 

 

 

Huh, interesting, Soviet tank design favoured the rear final drives, except in cases of light tanks, and then it could be either or (but rear was still preferred in the late war).

Maybe the turrets and hulls weren't assembled in the same place?  The earliest T-72 versions had composite hull armor and all steel turrets, after all.

I made it to 27 seconds.  

Lol just lol if your car doesn't have a button for blood

Yeah, it is terrible. I quickly watched parts of the video (20 seconds in total, haha) and can't go further without ears bleeding. It is just people having 0 understanding of the subject wich lead to bad research and using myths/inaccurate info to make those kind of videos.

Apperently ISIS used a KamAZ Vystrel for some time after it was captured in Palmyra.

Only 2 possbile variants - BMPT and "BMPT-72". I guess second one is cheaper and it is possible to be one that MoD will get.

http://gurkhan.blogspot.ru/2017/06/781.html
Object 781 photos from UVZ museum by GurKhan.