Now that the t90 Ukraine captured is in Area 51 being reverse-engineered by the CIA, what can America learn (in terms of technology) by studying it?
Now that the t90 Ukraine captured is in Area 51 being reverse-engineered by the CIA, what can America learn (in terms of technology) by studying it?
CIA will get a quick refresh of how vacuum tubes work
Russia doesn’t NEED semiconductors and integrated circuitry.
immune to EMP
Unfortunately not immune to things tanks actually face in combat
fun fact Russia actually IS one of like 4 countries that still make vacuum tubes
Take that ~~*semi conductors*~~, imagine falling for the silicon israelite
That France has a lot to fricking answer for.
This. O wonder France has been begging for cease fire. All of Russia's shit is God damn frog hit smuggled under embargo
how flammable that ir blanket is
The reverse-engineering team has been incapacitated by terminal laughter.
They can learn that Russians are developing technology we had in the 80s
Well, they can study the armour and determine at which ranges western APFSDS projectiles can penetrate it - provided that the ERA actually has explosives in it, and that the factory installed the main armour at all.
There's probably nothing to learn from the electronics.
It will all be memory-holed because the MIC doesn't want people to know "enemy #1" has been making "high tech" tanks out of tin cans and off-brand flex tape, thus concluding that all those expensive weapons are totally unnecessary.
over-glorified t72
Pretty sure most tech in the T-90 is just reverse engineered from M60's and such. Soft data like comm's channels, weak points and enemy familiarization etc. is maybe useful, but any hardware I think will be inferior to contemporary western tech
T90M is fully digital and technically on par with something like m1a2 or maybe a3 in shit like fcs and thermals.
>in Area 51
That's an air force base, dumbass
They noticed how far the T90 can launch a turret and were intrigued, NASA is next in line to study it
The next UFO we see near area 51 will look suspiciously similar to a tank turret
That it's a T72 with a French thermal taped to it
This T-90M actually has the PNM-T domestically produced sight.
They also domesticated the parts for SOSNA-U
So no, that sight in particular has nothing french in it.
Except not. The unit's been identified as the domestic type the Russkies were clunking together after the French stopped selling to them in 2014.
But they didn't stop, they prolonged existing contracts and used Russian assembly lines as a "domestic production" trick
It's not.
I like these new AI generated images.
Weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Also the state of Russian manufacturing and who has been supplying them components they cannot make themselves. I suspect that most of the electronics will be from China.
T-90M is pretty impressive, for Russian standards actually
I thought so too until I found out they didn't fix the flying turret. They just added an additional ammo depot on the back
>le flying turret meme
yeah sorry to tell you this anon but the tank isnt at fault for being hit by a javelin, its the crew for allowing the tank to be in a position to get destroyed
I'd like to add that leopard 2, M1 abrams, challenger 2, all wouldn't fair well to a direct hit from a Javelin etc
Sure the blow out panels on M1 and Leo 2 are great, and I'm not trying to denounce their importance.
However direct hit from top attack ATGM, isn't gonna be nice for the crew...
Also leo 2 still uses hull ammo and challenger 2 doesn't have any blow out panels, jus their shitty two piece ammo scattered everywhere
basically a T-72B3M with a good crew will do the job just as well as M1A2, but Russian crews are dogshit so that will never happen.
>no ICTV
>shit thermals and NV
>4km/h reverse speed
>shit ammo storage
>jUsT aS gOoD
Keep coping, homosexual
It's not a meme, it's the result of sitting on ammunition dear vatnikBlack person, and changing the autoloader might fix it if the military leadership somehow valued the lives of the crews
The autoloader is armored now.
Turn your ammo storage into a massive pipe bomb with these easy steps
I'm pretty sure T-90M doesnt use armoured carousel, only spall lined. Either way I am shocked Russia hasn't developed blowout panels for the carousel on the floor. It actually should be quite possible if you are motivated enough with the design, which Russia clearly aren't. For example the abrams has 6 rounds stored in a bin behind the commander that are blow out paneled, and when hit the panels underneath the tank with blow off and release the explosion into the ground below the tank. That should be possible on the carousel loader, you just have to cover it and leave a gap where the new rounds come through to be reload the gun, if I am making sense.
you would obviously have to create a new loading arm mechanism to close off the gap where rounds are fed though. Sorry if im talking moronic im not good at english
Also picrel is the blow out panel on the bottom of M1 tank
Maybe it has? I can't really find a lot details about T-90M carousel or other things. Maybe we will see some "review" soon. Or photos since it was captured.
I just googled more.
It has blowout panels but carousel is still horizontal like on T-72. The reverse speed is 15km/h and not 5km anymore.
I think you got a bad source, because I'm pretty sure T-90M is still 4 km/h reverse. also it has blowout panels but only for the spare ammo in the turret basket. The ammo carousel is still normal just lined with aramid. a lot of people think because the blowout panels for the spare ammo on T-90M means all ammo is in blowout panel but its not the case.
>because I'm pretty sure T-90M is still 4 km/h reverse
It's use different engine and now should have automatic transmission
it uses the same V-92S2F on the T-72B3M with 1130hp.
if you have sources for the new engine and transmission I'd like to see them though because it would be good if they finally addressed the transmission issue.
AM is supposed to have automatic+manual gear and steering wheel. I think there was photo in manual with steering wheel. But
this is the photo of M from 2021 and I don't see steering wheel only steering tills.
And captured one seems looks same. So now I'm not sure about anything.
And this is how normal T-90 looks like. It doesn't have this button on the left
It's not armored so much as it has a spall liner. It's not going to do shit against a penetration
flying turret only happens when you get hit, most often from the side
doctrinal issue
A week and still no proof this was T-90. Gotta love /k/
Brother, I hate nu-/k/ but this is literally a T-90M. Look at the Nakidka, look at the LWR ''eyes'' on either side of the mantlet, look at the commanders weapon station with remote controlled 12.7mm and CITV, the other images literally confirm its a T-90M.
The most valuable part is probably how Relict works and designing an APFSDS to negate it's defeat mechanism.
All Russian tanks rely heavily on ERA for protection against APFSDS, without ERA their armor has laughable protection to kinetic rounds.
>Area 51 being reverse-engineered by the CIA
kek