Russian Ground Forces: News #2

Most Russian military housing/infrastructure projects tend to look like what most well-funded militaries have had for years.

This however actually looks contemporary.

TR1 wrote:Most Russian military housing/infrastructure projects tend to look like what most well-funded militaries have had for years.

This however actually looks contemporary.

Well, as long as it still works.... Even here in the States our military infrastructure is starting to age, and even if redone, I don't think the advantages are really numerous... Not like it's going to prevent PTSD... 

Sure, troops may prefer living/basing in nicer areas, but they are troops after all. I'd say that equipment/organization/maintenance etc is more valuable to armed forces than the state of housing. Not so say it should be ignored, just not prioritized or judged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raYa_3O8_tQ

UR-07M mine clearing vehicle.

Apparently future Russian soldiers will have cold and calculating demeanor's...Terminator style!

The president has shown the combat capabilities of the robot avatar








...Headlines in today's fake news, Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, gave a press conference this morning, vowing a proper response towards the future Russian threat in the form of Japan's own military robot army

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/andrei_bt/18425682/319509/319509_original.jpg

Just a good reference pic.

Why is the guy in the middle have a cricket bat?

As the title said. Hmm i wonder if anyone can help me to provide the specifications of Russian gun propellant, mainly for tank and artillery gun.

hmm so far my gun propellant data is for western propellant (like say JA-2 propellant that used by Abrams and Leopard tank) But for some reason i found none for Soviet/Russian tank gun.

As for what kind of data that i need.. Hmm it would be Impetus, flame temperature and Specific heat ratio of the propellant. Similar as my data below




As for what i would use that data for is. I'm making a simplistic Excel spreadsheet to calculate muzzle velocity of a gun (Mainly optimized for Tank gun) Taking account of various stuff like chamber volume, length of the barrel, expansion ratios etc. The sheet allows calculations of :

-Maximum chamber pressure during firing
-Muzzle blast pressure
-Recoil force and impulse of the gun
-Gun mass (Recoilling, barrel and accessories-crudely though)
-Determination of whether the gun will be unstable or uncomfortable to fire
-Determination of gun's maximum safe pressure (So if exceeded.. the gun may burst- Assumption is Autofrettaged barrel)
-Age of gun barrel, how many rounds it can fire before condemnation necessary (user can set the tolerance by him/herself though)

The sheet are based from Rheinmettall handbook of weaponry and a journal from "Explosive and pyrotechnic journal"
The spreadsheet is available here for anyone who might want to play with it :3

DOWNLOAD LINK

Anyway no manual can be provided as i'm still developing this.. and refine stuff inside.

I make that spreadsheet mainly for improving my 3D stuff.. So i can basically "know what to do" when making my own tank. annd to verify at least theoritically if my tank gun can work.

Thank you very much for any help given.

To bad after downloading it losts its format with the preset grid to fill in.

Werewolf wrote:To bad after downloading it losts its format with the preset grid to fill in.

what ?! Well i'll try uploading it at Google spreadsheet then.

Google spreadsheet version

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DhyqCmBXGT8AADGxXHARNVCCECTK0nAGtJzWFFgXhtw/edit?usp=sharing

Interview: Plant "cupola": developing a new short-range air defense system

http://ria.ru/interview/20150129/1044846125.html

Austin wrote:Interview: Plant "cupola": developing a new short-range air defense system

http://ria.ru/interview/20150129/1044846125.html

From that article the MOD is actively looking at modernizing OSA, which imo is excellent news. I really feel like OSA has plenty of steam left, and with so many vehicles in active service, plus a cheap but adequate modernization should do wonders!

magnumcromagnon wrote:

From that article the MOD is actively looking at modernizing OSA, which imo is excellent news. I really feel like OSA has plenty of steam left, and with so many vehicles in active service, plus a cheap but adequate modernization should do wonders!

a lot of countries could certainly do with an osa system in their AD, and providing them with nice modernization options instead of just outright dumping them would be better for both parties.

There are a large number of countries who would buy such a system... the TOR is rather expensive, though also more capable.... for countries that already have OSA, or for whom a TOR system is just too expensive to buy and operate and upgraded OSA would be ideal.

Keep in mind that the sensors on TOR are state of the art and very capable systems, but also not cheap, and of course TOR is a tracked vehicle, though there are cheaper wheeled platforms now available, the OSA is cheaper and lighter and has proved in the past able to deal with targets like low flying cruise missiles... which are serious threats to most countries.

GarryB wrote:There are a large number of countries who would buy such a system... the TOR is rather expensive, though also more capable.... for countries that already have OSA, or for whom a TOR system is just too expensive to buy and operate and upgraded OSA would be ideal.

Keep in mind that the sensors on TOR are state of the art and very capable systems, but also not cheap, and of course TOR is a tracked vehicle, though there are cheaper wheeled platforms now available, the OSA is cheaper and lighter and has proved in the past able to deal with targets like low flying cruise missiles... which are serious threats to most countries.

I would like to see if Russians offers low cost phased array upgrade to OSA.. With antenna similar as Pero. One critical weaknesses of OSA is the inability to simultaneously engage multiple target.

Phased array upgrade will alleviate that weaknessess due to agile beam steering. It can provide guidance and tracking without being hampered by antenna gimbal limit.

Another option there would be to fit ARH seekers on SOME of the missiles, but I agree that a four face fixed AESA antenna just optimised for relatively close range scanning would greatly improve performance... perhaps with an Optronic turret to allow operations in intense EW environments.

Of course I am sure they would rather sell SOSNA-R systems.

Even with the sanctions...even before the AK-12 started being mass produced...this one's for the naysayers!

"Kalashnikov" for the first time in seven years left on net profit

...It goes to show that the Kalashnikov brand was not a 'lost cause', and they managed to make a net profit even with sanctions! I was just a matter of re-organization (with more competent leaders) and time, and the net profit is set to grow in the next coming years!

sepheronx wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:Even with the sanctions...even before the AK-12 started being mass produced...this one's for the naysayers.

"Kalashnikov" for the first time in seven years left on net profit

...It goes to show that the Kalashnikov brand was not a 'lost cause', and they managed to make a net profit even with sanctions!

For a while there, there was talk of legalizing guns in Russia, and that would probably make Kalashnikov brand skyrocket.  don't think it is a good idea though.  But it seems they are now concentrating on things like hunting rifles.  Which apparently hunting is still quite popular in Russia, and rightly so (good part of agricultural business, sporting, and just a good way to get away from civilization every now and then).

Why not? Gun control is nothing but an excuse to disarm the population.

kvs wrote:

Mike E wrote:
Why not? Gun control is nothing but an excuse to disarm the population.

This is a nice theory that has no empirical evidence to support it.   A collection of rabble with guns is no match
for an organized force dispatched by the state to suppress them.   Waco and the Branch Davidians is a fine example.
Also, in Iraq everyone and his dog had access to machine guns but that did not give them freedom under Saddam.

The widespread distribution of weapons in the USA has resulted in the police becoming a collection of trigger
happy killers who operate on the principle "shoot first, ask questions later".   If the population was not armed
the cops would have zero excuse.   So you see the cops in most of the EU behaving in a much more civilized
and humanitarian way.

In Canada, the sort of gross excesses that you see in the USA with cop perpetrated killing are vastly smaller
on a per capita basis.   Unfortunately, we have taser happy retards instead, but it is a percolation of both
American culture and guns that is giving Canada a distinctive set of characteristics from the EU.

Russia does not need American gun culture.  It won its freedom from the Soviet regime without the need for it.
If guns somehow played a major role in the late 80s and early 90s in Russia, then one could argue they have some
relevance.   Instead, we will have the same killer cop culture infesting Russia.   The democratic Russian
government is already under full assault from outside and inside by actors who want to install a bootlick regime.
It does not need cops killing civilians on daily basis since that will be used to undermine it and Russia.  

I think you get what I'm getting at... There is absolutely no need to not have legalized guns in Russia or any other country.

The beautiful GTD:

Nice...

Right now gas turbines have a poor record as prime mover for heavy vehicles, but the future of electric vehicles means gas turbines will make a come back.

The main problem of having a GT as your main engine is that accelerating and slowing down a lot... which tanks do all the time in operation where they basically sprint from cover to cover or concealment to concealment means very poor fuel economy for a GT which has to keep its revs high to maintain torque to accelerate a heavy vehicle.

In an electric drive vehicle the GT can be run at optimum revs continuously and produce the most efficient amount of electricity all the time.

In such a case a GT is smaller and lighter than a diesel, yet offers more growth potential in terms of power. Small light aircraft can use diesel engines but most larger aircraft use gas turbines.

One of the main issue with GT however is dust and dirt, so air filtering becomes critical.

Note for auxiliary power units (APUs) to save fuel by allowing the main engine to be shut down but keep the electronics running are generally GTs in tanks and aircraft.

Looks like the AK-12, and the modernized AEK have relatively the same length after stocks have been folded/compressed.