But, Russian government likes to spend money on vanity projects. That's not a news anymore.
Yes, all that bloat and corruption in their military spending... the Russians are notorious for bad returns on investments in the military sphere... famous for it even.
Their 120 billion dollar fighters and 10 million dollar tanks... that is why they are in economic collapse...
Dude... as usual you are reading from the wrong script... western propaganda uses reflection and reflects all its own problems on its opponents to make them look bad but sometimes, like now... that is absurd.
They fucked up really bad in their modernization of tanks....and they know what was greatest enemy of the same and that was ATGMs...so what they do, put ERA block on tanks on some parts of them, most of the top of the turrets are not protected and because of that they have great casualties in first days of war....with ARENA M this will be reduced to small numbers...btu what i know...Russians do not make mistakes...
But did they? Modernisation of old tanks should be cost effective because the numbers will punish you if you get this wrong.
The old tanks outnumber the new tanks by a wide margin so if upgrading the old tanks cost too much you will find there is no money for actually buying ANY new tanks... which would be the definition of fucking things up.... like having a 120 billion dollar light fighter (F-35) deemed too expensive to use as a standard fighter so the solution to the problem being reviving the old heavy previous generation fighter to save costs... to find that costs 250 million per airframe...
The upgrade for the T-72 is good enough, let it go.
We can complain that the APS system would make it better, but the MMW radar antenna emitting constant signals in the Ukraine would make tracking Russian units much easier for HATO forces meaning the Orcs would probably be able to be given small hand held trackers to find Russian tanks to ambush... just launch your missiles at the vehicles that are not tanks...
The Russians make choices based on the information available to them at the time, the new APS system for Armata include active (MMW radar) and passive (optical) sensors and perhaps in the future Lidar sensors could be added for the job too to detect incoming threats without emitting thousands of kms for sensitive enough equipment to detect them.
Russian tanks are fine, even the older ones. There are other things that require investment. The Navy for example.
You're not making any sense.
Would you also be advocating the Germans in 1943 to pour all their resources into producing Tigers and Elephants?
Especially after they evicerated the British and French and European Armies and then pushed deep into Russia equipped mostly with Panzer 1,2,3, an 4 tanks that were inferior in terms of armour and tank gun, but superior in terms of layout and tactics and visibility.
Do you all fking see what happens to the fking ERA when it hit with ATGM, or i am to blind and do not see...All fking ERA on that side of tank are blow up. so when you attack again from same side tank with ATGM he does not have any more protection and it will be kaput... Or maybe i lie for that also...
If Ukrainian ATGMs are so precise they can be fired twice at the same tank and hit the same ERA block each time then there is very little Russia could to to stop the Ukraine... they are the masters of the universe...
T-90M is much cheaper then T-14 almost half the price of one armata and its very very good tank with great protection and modern system on it. T-72B3M is piece of shit in many ways when we compare it with T-90M....why you just dont admited that...
On the battlefield in the Ukraine the difference between them is not significant, they are all fitted with good optics and comms systems and their armour protection is good enough to stop most enemy weapons... the difference between an upgraded T-72 and a T-90 and a T-14 would not be immense... they essentially have the same gun and similar sized tracks for similar mobility and engine power and performance.
The T-72 will not be destroyed by everything it comes across and the T-14 will not be invincible and without problems.
BREM vehicles they are using will tow T-72s and T-90s but might not manage a T-14.
Put APS on T-90M and you will have one of hell tank in battlefield...1/2 cheaper then armata T14
Put radar signal so enemy forces can track your every move... we don't even know how many have been lost to ATGMs... for all we know most might have been lost to land mines for which an APS system handed to the enemy is a Bad thing.
Where are the 600 or so t-55 that gad Drozd. Bring them back in service.
Actually I would say a reverse Drozd would be a good idea because the Orcs wont be attacking the front of Russian tanks if they can help it, they will be attacking the sides and rear, so side and rear facing APS systems actually make more sense in this conflict than standard systems... but the problem of MMW radar emissions remains.
T62 is junk, its useless in this fight, but it was only ready reserve tank made for Syria, to send it in fight becase of great loses in the same ...they put now T80bvs with no modernisation on front, because they need it...so they send best they have it on front in that reserve, and rest send to modernization,...they lack of good tanks,
They are sending old tanks because they don't need new tanks... you need the bestest and latest T-14 and T-90M tanks to fight any potential enemy tank the Ukraine might deploy, but they are so few and far between they could be using T-34s for fucks sake as an infantry support tank... a gun and some armour and optics to support troops out to 5-8km range is all they need and the T-62M is fine for that as are the upgraded T-72s...
APS cannot deal with two projectiles coming in sequence from the same direction, years ago the Russians showed a video of a Boomerang, if I'm not mistaken, shooting 2 ATGMs in sequence against the same target.
With this tactic the 1 ATGM would activate the APS clearing the way for the 2 ATGM to hit the tank.
Simple changes in tactics plus 2 ATGMs worth a few tens of thousands of dollars make the usefulness of an APS, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars,become questionable.
That was a tactic the Russians developed to deal with western APS systems, and also why their Kornets are mounted in twin and quad launchers to allow multiple missile launches at a single target. The RPG-30 with the two rockets in a disposable launcher with the faster front missile including jammer and other equipment with the slightly slower heavier larger calibre rocket being the anti armour round.
The point is that we don't know much about the Russian systems and whether they need to reset after each engagement or whether they can take on multiple continuous threats or not.