why don't the russians just take all their old garbage tanks and refit them as tank destroyers?

why don't the russians just take all their old garbage tanks and refit them as tank destroyers? they'd lower the profile, increase crew space, and delete the death trap loading systems

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    probably because they're focused on killing women and children rather than tanks

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >they'd lower the profile, increase crew space, and delete the death trap loading systems
      how does that make it easier for them to blow up hospitals and churches?

      I agree, a lot of russian tanks are being blown up by all of those ATGM's being fired from elementary schools, orphanages, and farms
      the other day russia killed 300 school children and no one even noticed
      but their tanks need something or they will not win this war, I guess. they need some new thing to kill more children even more rapidly. only that way can russia win

      yes, for targeting hospitals, pediatric clinics, and child cemeteries with speed and efficiency
      25mm autocannons on a remote mount ($26.7bn rubles each) are perfect for annihilating the tombstones of infants that were killed in the previous month's cluster bombing of a maternity ward

      especially when the only thing you're using your tanks for is to murder children as quickly as possible
      fact: no russian tank shell has ever been deliberately fired at anything other than a civilian target

      Allowing slav tourists on /k/ was a mistake.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Allowing russians to live is worse

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dilate harder cuck

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >they'd lower the profile, increase crew space, and delete the death trap loading systems
    how does that make it easier for them to blow up hospitals and churches?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they just need a working active protective system
    and safer ammo storage

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I agree, a lot of russian tanks are being blown up by all of those ATGM's being fired from elementary schools, orphanages, and farms
      the other day russia killed 300 school children and no one even noticed
      but their tanks need something or they will not win this war, I guess. they need some new thing to kill more children even more rapidly. only that way can russia win

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >refit
    >russia
    if it is not a cope cage it is too ttechnologicaly advaced for modern russia

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    behold!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this is the secret weapon that putin needs to kill every child in ukraine

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        he should send every single ank back to be refitted straight away!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes, for targeting hospitals, pediatric clinics, and child cemeteries with speed and efficiency
        25mm autocannons on a remote mount ($26.7bn rubles each) are perfect for annihilating the tombstones of infants that were killed in the previous month's cluster bombing of a maternity ward

        especially when the only thing you're using your tanks for is to murder children as quickly as possible
        fact: no russian tank shell has ever been deliberately fired at anything other than a civilian target

        Audibly keke'd hehehe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >stank-64A
      I kinda like it, needs modern ERA and a BTR-82A turret

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes, for targeting hospitals, pediatric clinics, and child cemeteries with speed and efficiency
        25mm autocannons on a remote mount ($26.7bn rubles each) are perfect for annihilating the tombstones of infants that were killed in the previous month's cluster bombing of a maternity ward

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Building an entire tank for the sole purpose of destroying other tanks is not very cost effective when a guy with a tube, a plane, or even accurate artillery fire will do the job.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      especially when the only thing you're using your tanks for is to murder children as quickly as possible
      fact: no russian tank shell has ever been deliberately fired at anything other than a civilian target

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because Ukraine has no tanks left. Every single tank Russia uses is just a siege gun so it doesn't even matter they are using T55s

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      exactly why you just need better afvs like seige tank designs the make harder targets for at crews

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know why people still think Russia is this great super power.

    Pic Rel.

    Its a 9 inch upsetter, it was built by the US during WW2 and sent to the Soviets, The Russians still use it to this day for building tanks. In the early 2000s it broke and they sent it back to Ohio to get it repaired and refurbished. They did this because they didn't have the ability to fix it themselves. They couldn't Fix or even build a replacement of a piece of equipment given to them over 50 years ago.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lolwut

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >

        https://i.imgur.com/jh9iocG.jpg

        I don't know why people still think Russia is this great super power.

        Pic Rel.

        Its a 9 inch upsetter, it was built by the US during WW2 and sent to the Soviets, The Russians still use it to this day for building tanks. In the early 2000s it broke and they sent it back to Ohio to get it repaired and refurbished. They did this because they didn't have the ability to fix it themselves. They couldn't Fix or even build a replacement of a piece of equipment given to them over 50 years ago.
        >lolwut

        That was my reaction so I googled it and this interesting article about the 9 inch upsetter turned up.
        https://www.forgemag.com/articles/84490-ohio-built-upsetter-from-soviet-union-returns-for-rebuilding

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yeah i mean look at the ak even with all the stolen stamping lines from germany they still couldnt figure out stamping for critical components

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            they kidnapped ford employees taht were sent to teh USSR with the flatpacked ford plants henry ford sent there. because the soviets couldnt figure out how to make the dies for forks and spoons that ford employees made in 15 minutes after getting grossed out by everyone sharing utensils and bowls.

            To be honest, if the manufacturer is there, many times it's easier to just dismantle it and send it somewhere.

            Otherwise you have to dismantle it, model it (you will NOT get the drawings to manufacture it because of business reasons, you're a client), learn what is right and wrong way to fix it etc.

            As for Russia's case, I have no idea what they're doing. Maybe it's even a political statement, "fix our stuff and we'll send more tanks to Ukraine".

            t. mechanical engineer with plant equipment background

            i dont think they have anyone that is actually trained like you are there. russians trying to get something done is a chinese firedrill. absolute chaos and it has to go through 50 people before a single broom is picked up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The US and the Soviet Union took the largest forging presses in the world from Germany after the war.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The 50,000 ton Mesta had to go to Germany in 2008 to be rebuilt. Doesn't America have industry?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It didn't disappear after the upsetter was sent back to the US, the Germans presumably made a lower bid.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        To be honest, if the manufacturer is there, many times it's easier to just dismantle it and send it somewhere.

        Otherwise you have to dismantle it, model it (you will NOT get the drawings to manufacture it because of business reasons, you're a client), learn what is right and wrong way to fix it etc.

        As for Russia's case, I have no idea what they're doing. Maybe it's even a political statement, "fix our stuff and we'll send more tanks to Ukraine".

        t. mechanical engineer with plant equipment background

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Shitty bait thread but I still like tank destroyers
    Picrel is based off a t-54 for back when armor protection mattered. Nowadays the cost and weight savings of deleting a turret is insignificant compared to its downsides and is especially disadvantageous when you're spending great amounts to modify vehicles so significantly, hence why every single fighting vehicle even artillery uses turret. Better upgrade is to just slap modern ERA and ammunition onto one for a cost effective upgrade, then maybe upgrade optics and fire control if officers scalped less off the top than usual, with foreign electronics of course since you want something of quality.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      pretty sure if you delete the turret system you can delete that horrible ammunition tinderbox surrounding the crew

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >storing ammunition INSIDE the vehicle
        lmao what

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They converted these to BMR-1 engineering vehicles didn't they?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Tank destroyers are an outdated concept at this point. They were a great idea at the time considering the costs required for producing an entirely new tank on a new chassis and how quickly tech was advancing during the war but in modern times they are just a waste of resources. Nowhere in the modern day do you need to mass produce tanks to fight other tanks. With modern weapons a tank isnt made to directly fight others its a projection of force to stop light armor and infantry advances or to advance your own lines into theirs. BOTH sides are targeting artillery and missile strikes to deny the other side armor before any actual objectives are pushed then with their armor reduced they pick off whats left with man portable anti tank weapons during the push.

    With the sheer amount of logistics and recon that goes on in modern warfare if you are shooting a main tank gun at another tank something has gone wrong. At this point its the last resort. I honestly wouldnt be surprised if we see a return to smaller medium sized tanks like the Sherman instead of large main battle tanks simply to increase numbers and saturate the field. With how much tech has improved a swarm of something like a modern Sherman would be terrifying. At this point i see something like that far more likely in the coming decades in the same way that the old battleships were rendered useless. Bigger isnt always better after all.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >why don't the russians just take all their old garbage tanks and refit them as old garbage tank destroyers?

    Yeah, i wounder why.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      uhm hello, they're desperate for vehicles, and their tanks are already death trap afvs, this would be a step up

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >desperate for vehicles
        >initiate complex rebuilding programme to basically disassemble and rebuild old chasses from the fricking ground up
        anon...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, thats why they need to take their trash vehicles and repurpose them to be a trash vehicles but without turret.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    China has a 80,000 ton press that was designed in Russia.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, they need a safe ammunition stowage system like the Jagdpanther (both sides of the tank are ammunition).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      jesus fricking christz i still marvel at the people being so good at model building.
      >get a Revell Model (anything realy King Tiger,Spitfire ,Tomcat )
      >Some parts dont fit correctly
      >Cutting isnt an option since its the dimensions
      >When done if manage looks like a fricking wobbly drawing made by a 14yo of what he thinks said model looks like
      WHYYYY GOD FRICKING DAMMIT
      (its with most diy stuff for me its probably me but idk how or why i manage to be so moronic)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the OP pic is used entirely because it's a t54 that's been transformed into a mockup of a jpanther

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Most of the tooling to manufacture spec T-72s has already been sold. Older tanks, that equipment is gone ages ago. Russia is not good at standing up large industrial concerns without outside experts.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You watched too many ww2 theorycrafting videos. This entire question makes no sense.
    They did it in ww2 because old tanks needed bigger guns, but their turret couldn't house a bigger gun. But they could have the bigger gun and keep the factory running if they just bolted the gun to the chassis.
    Old Russian tanks don't need to be upgunned.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      but russian tanks in general are cramped death traps

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The russians would probably just put spikes in any extra space they gained because suffering makes you stronk

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You are so fricking stupid it's unreal how do you expect to make a fricking human loader fit in a space shorter than the carousel autoloader
    How do you plan to make it smaller and somehow more spacious with ammo (presumably because you think you can make it safer) in blowout areas? Why are you fricking inbred moron naziBlack person c**tS spamming this fricking board with your preposterous drivel?
    A fricking war thunder player would know why you can't do this and you don't, think about it for a good while that you're lower than a fricking WTgay

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    russians should hollow them out and use them as self-propelling mass graves. you can fit a lot of dead bodies into that if you fold em right

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That would actually cost money comrad, conscripts are free

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >refit
    with what industrial capacity.

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