I will repeat that the 48 ton weight of the 7 axle T-14 is impressively low. It is the size of an Abrams but does not weigh over
65 tons. As for its height. It is the turret that is exposed. Since it is unmanned this changes the game. A higher vantage point
is able to better see far, but the lack of volume makes it a hard target to hit. Even a direct hit would not kill the tank.
You make a very important point... one of the reasons the commander of a modern tank directs the driver as to where to drive is because the view from the hull is generally pretty poor compared to the view from the top of the turret.
There is a swedish tank that does away with a turret and has a gun in the chassis that is elevate and depressed by the suspension of the vehicle and it is well known that it has poor visibility from the vehicle because of its low height.
It is hard to emphasise enough the advantage of having a turret view, which the entire crew of the Armata and Kurganets and Boomerang vehicles share... expanded even further with the ability to use tethered UAVs with thermal and radar sensors to view the space around the vehicle from a god perspective the only like of which would be in computer games... without exposing your head and body out of the top of the tank...
All the crew can share the turret top view of the surroundings and not just on screens but also likely via helmet mounted viewing systems that give them a virtual view through the armour at the world outside the vehicle...
All of the western tanks have heavy turrets to protect the crew. The T-14 no longer needs this protection. It can probably survive
a sabot penetration without exploding. In some sense the turret has become disposable but we still do not know the shell
handling in this turret.
If a round actually makes contact with the turret most of the time it will simply punch completely through making a relatively small hole right through. This will not really effect the operation of the vehicle very much at all and it should be able to resist multiple hits before there is any problems... the inside of the turret could be purged with nitrogen so no fires should start even with HEAT penetrations... or APHEI penetrations...
It pacifies the fears of the media consumers who need to believe that Russia cannot resist the "invincibility" of the western horde.
It is a catch 22 situation though... they are both at the same time bankrupt and on the verge of collapse, and at the same time a bigger threat to the western world than ISIS... how can they be useless if we spend all this money on weapons and theirs are better, but the fact that theirs are better means we need to spend more money on our military because our superior western tactics and training will mean we will prevail of course...
Too bad for NATzO vermin, but the eastern front is never easy and this time around it will be the most difficult of all.
Especially when NATO tanks and planes need air conditioned tents to keep them safe over night...
Let alone the fact that the Tejas uses all foreign parts. It is as much Indian as the British government is.
So does the Arjun tank....
The Putin billions claim is a perfect
example of this phenomenon.
Yeah, a friend of mine is convinced he has billions tucked away somewhere... when I mentioned Porochenkos income increased 900% while in office in a US supported democracy he didn't say much...
But MiG-29 is apparently shit according to them.
When it was first revealed in the 80s it was the super boogeyman in the west... a Soviet super plane... all the best features of the F-16 and F-18 all rolled in to one, but after spending the 90s practising against very early model 29s operated by west german pilots they got a bit cocky and thought they knew everything about the aircraft... plus there was still the Flanker they could use as the boogeyman to get funding when they needed to upgrade their existing types.
The main shock of the 29 was that WVR fighting was going to be at the very best one all in terms of fighter vs fighter so they switched to BVR AMRAAM which really didn't get much funding or priority until they tested their best planes and pilots against the MiG-29... it was actually rather hilarious because they didn't have access to all the AAMs it could use so they didn't really get a complete picture of the aircraft anyway... but western experts can be blind.
Facts will never get in the way of the favourite delusions of idiots. Don't waste your time. If India feels the compulsion to suck Uncle Scumbag's
schlong, then it is free to do so. Yanqui shit will be more flavourful to these morons.
When it comes to learning... experience is the best and harshest teachers... when they find out how expensive US support is they will recognise what they had and desperately want it back...
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