I haven't seen a western tank do this. This looks really bad for crew survivability, do they all just die?
Why do the Russian tanks have their turrets fly off like this?
I haven't seen a western tank do this. This looks really bad for crew survivability, do they all just die?
>Why?
Ammo.
>do they all just die?
Yes.
Do people willingly sign up to be in these deathtraps or do they just force poor mobiks into them? What a horrifying way to go, do they even have bodies left for their loved ones?
probability is yea there's not a lot left. mobiks afaik do not have a choice and are assigned to it. i'd say, though, vast majority of mobik tankers survive because they usually abandon their tanks before any real danger. a lot of the tossed turrets are from the beginning of the war.
They are russian. Fatalism and learned helplessness are ingrained into their DNA.
>What a horrifying way to go, do they even have bodies left for their loved ones?
Sure. There are plenty of videos where they get thrown as far as the turrets. They might not be recognizable, but at least there's something to scoop up.
Russia isn’t making a great effort to recover any of her war dead. To do so would require her to acknowledge the magnitude of her losses to her people. Mobiks still get into tanks because even if tanks are mobile crematoriums if the armor is defeated, it still has armor. The life expectancy of a mobik in a trench is lower.
>implying people dont sign up to work in nuclear submarines
before all the videos of tanks getting btfo came out I can imagine that most of them wanted to be in tanks because they would be safer there. hell you are probably still safer in a tank considering the russian "tactics"
autoloader carousel
yea they're pretty much eviscerated
crew fatalities in an abrams is lower at the cost of being about a third or so larger than a T-72.
Well, first they get sprayed with liquidized metal. Then they are immolated as the ammo begins to cook off. Then they die from the overpressure. If they are still alive after that somehow they continue to burn to death.
And yet, Russia advances
And yet, Germany advances
At 5 meters every 100K dead mobiks. The blyatzkrieg never stops.
Turret toss thread?
Post the one that stuck the landing like a lollipop
Imagine wanting to keep it but the authority's come by and take it from you?
>That will be a sad day!
I feel like this is one of the most iconic images of this war so far
I would rebuild the house around it and make it a couch or something.
>do they all just die?
No, no, of course not, OP. You can actually see Ivan holding onto the barrel in your picture, he then surfed down the air currents on that turret and landed safely. They dubbed him "The Liver Surfer" in the news later for his extensive alcoholism.
The sporty crewmen survive by performing a swift barrel roll out of the tank as soon as the turret lifts off. The russian tank crews exercise this a lot, so most of em get out alive.
Forgot pic.
>capping the comment
>not capping the OP for context
Come on anon, I know it was the desert tank but no one else will in a few years.
We never forget
Inside joke is inside.
>Tank crew abusing I-frames
Truly the west needs to catch up to the russian level
Oh that one's a classic.
Russian tank design from the T-64 onwards prioritized having as low a profile as possible, which means a cramped crew compartment and carousel autoloader sitting under a compact turret which is small and light compared to its western counterparts. If the ammo goes up it only has one way to go.
Its the injection seats
Ejecto seato cuz
Western tanks have no thought given to crew wellness and if crew compartment penetrated, all crew live for decades with debilitating injuries and pain. Wife cannot stand husband's burned face and will leave him. Children scared. Western armies give not thought for suffering like this. Russian tanks place autoload carousel directly below turret. If penetration occurs, quickly crew painlessly dead and out of suffering. Rocket launch simple consequence
Antinatalist tank designs.
Ammo placement. They also think blowout panels are gay, they’d rather the entire tank and crew blow up than possibly fight another day.
Comedic effect
Feel free to correct me on this but I remember tank "analyst" saying that having the ammo rack below you didn't really matter because even if the ammo storage wasn't there, if something managed to penetrate into the crew cabin most if not everyone would die regardless because of spalding, fire, super heated gas etc.
it certainly wouldn't be fun, but your chances are much better if the ammo isn't there
western tanks also do this if ammo is stored in the hull and not in closed off compartment with blowout panels - Russian tanks are hard to modify to keep ammo outside of crew compartment as autoloader is placed in the hull and not in the turret
Not just tanks.