Well, duh, we know that's your job. Do you share cubicle space with JohnT83 and NBCMarine?

el oh fucking el

Well, duh, we know that's your job. Do you share cubicle space with JohnT83 and NBCMarine?

el oh fucking el

Soliders of brave motherland will recieve support of many logistics from local kulaks

You beat me to it - I was gonna ask if the turrets fly into the air any higher then existing Russkie tanks when their ammo blows.

With the bigger powder charge...it just might.

Sleeping in a Russian barracks is far braver.

There is HARM killer:
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-SAM-DefAids.html#mozTocId535952

lulz

Job position - "Spy"

LOL


An example of fake fabricated by Ukrainian propaganda machine

Sorry I'm late to the party but I couldn't help but LOL....

 
Not just missiles, we're heavily invested in jamming/electronic warfare gadgetry.

There is a pretty sizable Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian population where I live.  They take shit like the National Enquirer as fact.

Does it have a built-in breathalizer for the crew before starting the engine?

Russia did it as well.

I love how networked those S-400s are.

TIL: 30km equal 10,000ft.



More seriously, can you tell me the name of the song these girls are singing, it's pretty catchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP8JlQq0FBQ
Do you know if it's cover? and if so, who sang the original version?

That had it's ass kicked by tiny Georgia?

Come on dude, put the pipe down.

Who is the ARFcom tanker who used to say "I love Russian tanks, they burn so bright!"

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My electronic response passed over your cranium at high altitude, tovarsh.

Meh... they'll build 4 of them before they run out of cash.  Still rely heavily on legacy T-72/T-80.

That was my thought.  A tank with active radar is an easily found target.

I think the Russians should take a company-sized unit of their best armored shit, and put it up against one of our National Guard units.

We'll meet on neutral ground.   Maybe an island in the Pacific. The Russians will have to solicit donations so that they can hire a Somali shipping company to move their shit for them.   Maybe the guys at WarGaming.net could do a fundraiser for them.

They just need 1 of the 4 to stay rust-free long enough to show it off to some African dictatorr with a checkbook.

The "T-95" appears to be the wrong answer to Russia's lack of a viable MBT that can fight and win against modern western tanks such as the M1A2 SEP, Leopard 2A5/A6, Challenger II, or French LeClerc.  

For one, the main gun has been increased significantly in size to 152mm, which tells me Russia lacks the R&D to field an effective APFSDSDU long rod penetrator that can defeat western armor without radically increasing the size of the main gun.  I find this surprising, since the Russians have (or used to have) a pool of very capable scientists and engineers who understood higher mathematics without the use of computers.  With the aid of computers like they have now, you'd think they'd be in a better position to develop better munitions.  Perhaps production of DU or TC is beyond their industrial or economic capacity due to complexity or costs, or both.  Anyway, the current generation of Russian tanks seem to be incapable of being upgraded any further, which also tells me their 125mm main gun will never be effective against tanks it was designed to fight against.

The two man crew is an admission that the Russian tank design bureaus couldn't develop modern composite armor light enough to build a tank to accommodate at least a three man crew like their existing MBTs.  The decision to design the tank around the two man concept was most likely a concession to keeping the weight of the tank down to levels that didn't impede mobility.  Bear in mind that the Russians rely heavily on ERA to defeat enemy tank main gun munitions as it is.  That in and of itself tells you they haven't developed any armor arrays as capable as those used by the West since the 1980s.  

Additionally, a two man crew leaves the tank with fewer eyes to scan for threats, and less labor to perform operator-level PMCS.  Crewing a tank isn't just a "push button" form of fighting confined to the hull and turret; you still need crewmen to prepare the tank for operations, to effect repairs before and after crossing the LOD, to scan and identify threats, to constantly maintain weapons and the tank itself, to perform as LP/OPs in the defense, to tie in to friendly forces on the flanks, to conduct dismounted patrols, etc.  If the crew is relying on sensors (various optics) to fight the tank, then they're vulnerable to mechanical malfunction either from everyday use in an operational environment, or from impacts from enemy KE munitions and ATGMs while in the fight.  Equally bad, is that I don't see how you could integrate a straight-up optical auxiliary sight with just a simple reticle, mil lines for lead, and a stadia range finder  (IOWs no electronic automatic inputs to generate a ballistic solution) with a gunner who sits in the hull.  Maybe they can.

I admire the Russians for not being afraid to field new technology and concepts, but I don't believe the T-95 will be a competitive design against modern western MBTs.  Unless there's something we're not seeing, it looks like it's performance will be limited by severe design limitations that western tank crews do not contend with.

Ever since the commie empire went tits-up under the weight of all that vodka bloat we've been seeing these "next generation" weapons every two or three years.  

However, the unfortunate souls that are too dumb to dodge service in the Russian "army" (using the term loosely) still make do with the same rusty shit they've had since 1991.

Making a mock-up one-off with an optimistic spec sheet don't mean shit.

Keep trying Ivan.

Such a ROAD would be the greatest  public works project so far this century.

 
I would  ride that road, from end to end.

It  would be a  HUGE fucking HUGE tourist attraction.

Opening up  an all weather, year round  Trans-Siberian  highway, connecting Europe to the Bering sea would be .... World -Changing.

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Imagine  Riding from the East coast of the USA.... all the way to England... Fucking amazing.


I would  take a month off work, just to do that.

 
Nice write-up.

"Professional" Russian Internet Trollers Warehouse

Their problem is their autoloaders necessitate ring sabots instead of spindle sabots, which causes much larger fins than spindle sabots, both increasing wind effects and reducing effective ranges because of the drag penalty they incurs.

Just another case of "throw everything out there, see what sticks" approach to acquiring defense-related information from whatever source they can get it from.

I've always imagined posters like the OP to be interns from a pool of future intelligence officers.

There are many aspects to this picture that only a troll can appreciate.

You forgot to factor in National assets as well.

I'll be damned (not forever, just for now).

Their ammo seems to lag behind U.S. munitions in more than a few aspects.

Oh geez.

The Armata has been in development for a while, if I could get youtube working I'd post a video of them moving it on a truck, it's covered pretty good though. It's not a game-changer but it is a nice tank that's going to have APCs and such of the same design.


Also Russian anti-air is second to none whether it's going against ICBMs or the best 'stealth' bombers nothing gets into Moscow, other areas are slightly more vulnerable but not much.

If you say so.

Maybe on paper.  But ComBloc anti-air has been scarcely tested since the Linebacker raids.

Hey comrade, I have a great idea for you to relay to your boss vlad.  Tell him don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
How about ya'll just get your commie asses out of Ukraine and quit invading, annexing and occupying other countries.
Just be happy with your own drunk nation.
Sincerely, the rest of the world.




Except of course your commie allies who like you for the free shit you give them, and I do mean "shit"

You catch it?  Wikepedia of all places at that! Hilarious!

Look closely, yes you Tomislav and Primorski/therusskibear

It's just... right there.

That's soldiers gotta be so proud that's on there.

How many will the have 10?
They already reduced the numbers of their new fighter to an astounding total of 12.

Needs moar Warthog.  

THAT IS HILARIOUS!!!!!

therusskibear:

you said this in one of your posts:
Civilian war in Ukraine - no direct intervention of Russian army.



So tell me who shot down the civilian passenger jet last year? Rebels yea sure and the commies...I mean Russian army is not using its arty in Ukraine right know either right.

Hope to see some vids in the near future of new Russian tanks popping there tops from the Ukraine military shooting them up while they are fighting the Soviets I mean Russians no no I meant those pesky rebels.

And did I read that right that the new tank may have a 152mm main gun and a 30mm canon as well?

How many nations have the industrial and intellectual capacity to develop and produce air defense systems?

US
Britain
France
Russia
Sweden

Russia's have been copies of US systems from day 1.  Look at the Nike Ajax and the SA-2, for example.

Russia's biggest problems are within, not outside her borders.  That is very clear if you have ever visited the place.  Bolsheviks destroyed it over a period of decades, from which there is no recovery.

What will Russia's borders look like 10 years from now?  That is the question.

Instead of taking the opportunity to invite foreign investment in with above-board practices, people were able to see the Kleptocracy within for what it is, and pulled out if they that had any sound interests in their long term business viability.

You've doomed Russia to a very bleak outcome that simply can't be sustained.  Attempts at improving the military will only strain the system further, leading to even lower standards of living for anyone unfortunate enough to have been born there.

Sooner or later China is gonna rape them from behind and take a good chunk of their eastern side.

It's terrifying, but I can see the Chinese coming to the conclusion that they would actually be better off  with a couple hundred million fewer people and a big chunk of new territory.