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On 8/15/2022 at 1:12 PM, LoooSeR said:

 

Modified Sprut-SDM1 with soft-kill APS

Where's the APS? All I see are add on plates, a Lazer warning receiver and and smoke grenades?

On 8/7/2022 at 8:39 PM, alanch90 said:

The hull in the infantry section is higher, and together with the absence of the autoloader should make for a relatively comfortable seating positions, at least better than what you can get on BMP-2 and the like. 

 

Actually, BMO-T is a great starting point if you wanted to develop an IFV based on the T-72 platform. They could just remove the front fuel tanks, as they did with the BMP-T and Koalitzia, and place there a dedicated gunner and the vehicle/squad cmdr, at the right and left to the driver respectively. That should free up space in the infantry section for at least an 8th dismount (making a full traditional 9 men squad counting the cmdr). For weapons, just put one of those unmanned turrets we´ve been seeing for Kurganets or T-15 with a 57mm gun and to top things of, integrate an APS to the thing, like Arena-M. Oh and replace the Kontakt 5 with Relikt/light ERA combo and there you go, a perfectly serviceable, top of the line heavy IFV that you can build out of some of the thousands of T-72 hulls the russians have over there rusting. Should work very well within tank brigades and regiments until the Armata platform takes over some time in the coming centuries.

That's the sensible thing to do, but turrets are where most of the cost and complexity is on a tank so it's not like it'll be that easy to produce

Does anyone have any info on the traverse and elevation range on the Terminator's two grenade launchers? They seem to have very little range of fire, making me wonder how it is worth the two extra crew men