Is there really a whole lot to learn from 40 year old US tech?
>>65616773considering they've only been producing the same 40 year old design until today? they'd learn how much theirs sucks, assuming they didn't know this already. will they change anything because of that? no.
>>65616773https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_Systemaegis is 80/2 years old
>>65616773>random who twitter thread
>>65616773Abrahamski clones soon))))
>>65616807No.
>>65616773So trump is just giving putin tanks too now? jfc
>>65616773They will use that as a firing target and then say that russian tanks are supperior.
>>65616773Of course, that tank design is decades ahead of Russian tech
>>65616773It's a 19yo upgrade package and is very worth while if the Blue Force Tracking and FBCB2 still in it.Even if they aren't it's always worth testing what fools the FLIR and what is it's detection range is against different targets.If you have never seen a T-54/55 it's still worth testing it's capabilities so you know what you are up against no matter how shit it is.
>>65616773They already 'tested' the Leo 2 they captured and found that it was totally inferior to their T-72. Or was it the T-62? They spammed their 'research results' here for weeks.
>>65616773how did a Saudi Arabian M1 end up in BCC Pucchia
>>65617308Most likely an Aussie one, we run the SA and sent Ukraine 49.
>>65616773>twitter thread
>>65616848Yeah.After 2300 Armatas..
>>65616773Why repost a two year old tweet?
>>65617319Genuinely, how hard can it be to build these pieces of shit at scale when they already have several active production lines making other pieces of shit like the T-90? What's the hold up?
>>65617409Doctrine and cost. Russia realize that drones are the future of warfare and they shape their doctrine acordingly.
>>65617409Armata is a fake tank for parades.That is the only task it was designed to perform.
>>65617409>>65617424I think they expected a shitload of export sales to pay for lines to be built, then covid caused a lot of countries to cut spending and Ukraine showed Russian tanks to be trash.
>>65617409>What's the hold up?The original design was extremely ambitious. Far too ambitious for russia to actually produce in significant numbers.It was supposed to be a western-style tank, unrelated to the mid-20th century Soviet designs that they've been recycling for decades.Basically a brand new clean-sheet design.To start with it's much larger than soviet tanks, it's basically the same size as any given western tank, and it was supposed to offer similar or even greater protection to the crew.It was supposed to feature a whole shitload of fancy tech and clever innovations, arguably even surpassing western tanks in terms of tech. Brand new engine, brand new automatic transmission with torque vectoring steering, brand new armor, fancy modern optics, a safe Leclerc-style autoloader contained in the remote-controlled turret, the 3-man crew seated side-by-side in a safe compartment well away from the ammo.Then they tried to build the thing and got a forcefed a giant slice of humble pie.The engine didn't work and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't fix it.The transmission was similarly problematic. Replacing these parts with old and proven powertrains was impossible since those were all far too large to fit in the hull.After spending years trying to develop a reliable Leclerc-style autoloader, they gave up and installed an old fashioned carousel auto-loader instead.This caused additional problems since those jam all the fucking time, and need the crew to unfuck them regularly, which isn't possible in an uncrewed turret.The fancy modern optics became unavailable due to sanctions.All the funding kept getting wasted and/or embezzeled.Several key engineers left the country.Various companies involved either got shut down or got handed to oligarchs who ran them into the ground.It eventually reached a point where everyone involved just gave up, the project was obviously failing, so the funding kept getting cut until the T-14 project was dead.
>>65617409The holdup is that they conducted trials for the T-14 and it failed. They're not making more for the same reason they're not using the dozen they have: it's shit and literally even a T-55 is better. It has nothing to do with cost, otherwise they'd be using the ones that were already paid for and could be sent to the front for cheaper than renovating a vehicle that's been parked in a field for half a century.
Humiliation ritual.
>we've captured their science lab, we can now train chrono ivans.
>>65617565>safe Leclerc-style autoloaderNo? the two piece ammunition is still stored in a drum under the tower. However, it's separated from the crew compartment at last.
>>65617409It's a propaganda tank, they don't want to send these to the frontlines because they will get inevitably droned, and their wunderwaffe from 2015 getting BTFO is gonna be a propaganda loss for them, so they make and send the old shit to get blown up because nobody cares lol.
>>65617668Just imagine the seethe from the ziggers if some western country stooped this low and had their equipment in some humiliation ritual gallery.
