Sad and to think some anons thought they would have 2,000 by now. I wonder if the West should just buy Russian engineers at this point and make their own.
Sad and to think some anons thought they would have 2,000 by now. I wonder if the West should just buy Russian engineers at this point and make their own.
parade tank
>buy out all the tooling and engineers for Armata
>build them in America
>use them exclusively for OPFOR training as live targets
What a fricking power move
>Sad and to think some anons thought they would have 2,000 by now.
Russia is a poor nation with barely any industry, 95% of their weapons were inherited from the Soviet Union and are at a minimum 30+ years old with unimpressive if sometimes non-existant upgrades.
They've been riding off that rusty stockpile for 30 years, pushing their weight around. I am glad see it all finally being turned to scrap in the Ukraine.
This, imagine fearing an economy smaller than Italy.
The last rotten teeth getting drawn from the senile bear. It's glorious.
After a lifetime of watching Russia be Russia I'm seeing them defeated in detail.
Putin won't last the year.
>some anons thought they would have 2,000 by now
That was all vehicles of the new T- series, including the IFVs and such.
They still claimed that they would have several hundred Armatas by now
>the West should just buy Russian engineers at this point and make their own.
Why? they're very likely shit.
Here is your Armata bro.
>Russian actually wrote "Fury" on his barrel
Colonized and they don't even know it
>Armata
>unmanned turret
>armored capsule
Now, Russian tanks are rightfully mocked for their turret-tossing, but would this combo helps in any way?
It's an idea with merit but considering Russian optics and electronics that thing is probably has the situational awareness of your grandpa after a case of beers
It can toss the turret without killing the crew. Maybe. Depends on the ammo load.
now i want to see a western version of this thing
The fact that the t-14 has a turret bustle for the propellant instead of storing it in the carousel probably has a greater impact on crew survivability than an unmanned turret, because even if there's no one it the turret you've still stuffed massive amounts of explosive material down into the hull next to the crew. With the two combined, though, I'd say it could be one of the more survivable tanks out there today, which is presumably why Rheinmetall's already talking about an unmanned turret upgrade for the KF-51.
Gloves obviously not off yet anon.
they cant field them even if they wanted to
a single loss of them would have caused immense backlash to an already faltering narrative
a capture of one would immediately cause mass revolt out of the sheer embarrasment of losing your super weapon
better to not even be in this scenario at all, i doubt 5 of them all concentrated in one spot would have any significant battle impact consider how much mobile anti tank weapons ukraine has
The turret and fire control doesn't really work.
I had a dream last night the the Russians had secretely been building thousands of these in Siberia and were going to deploy them all at once once they have crews trained to the highest standards. That's why the Russian tank olympics crews were the best, because they were being held in reserve for the Armata deployment.
It was epic. Sabaton did the soundtrack.
The armata doesn't kill me nearly as much as the Felon. How can a plane look so cool, have such a cool name, and yet perpetually blueball me? Damned Russians making things look and sound cool and never delivering
>build an economy where any talented engineer or software developer is either stolen from, imprisoned, pressed into malware development, or leaves the country
Who would even be around to develop modern Russian wunderwaffen?
outsource the development work to China, who steal it from US