T-72 ΜΒΤ modernisation and variants

You can also use the cheaper Drozd that is combat ptoven in Afghanistan.

Old but works very fine against rpg. Modern atgm and rocket grenades have nothing more than what talibans used to have back in the 70s. They have same overall speed and flight caracteristics.

Where are the 600 or so t-55 that gad Drozd. Bring them back in service.

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...

T14 will be produced in realy small numbers buy this war ended and Russians never ever send then to the fight...because its too fiknig cost and isnt that batter then T-90M....because without APS its like any other tank against ATGMs...even worst because she do not have ERA on paper TURRET...

Put APS on T-90M and you will have one of hell tank in battlefield...1/2 cheaper then armata T14

T-90 is better than upgraded t-72 but still has same weak spots. Hit it with an atgm on the side and it goes boom.

Add aps to t-72 and will be a hell of a tank 1/3 of armata price.

Add aps to t-62M and it will also be a very good tank for 1/10 of armata price.

APS is a real must have for any vehicle. Tanks bmp and btr.

Being better doesn't mean it will add anything more valuable to the battlefield than an upgraded t-72.

It may have better electronics but t-72B3m can still spot target and shot at them at max range if the gun.

Sometimes having better which is more expensive isn't really needed.

What they really need is install APS on all their tanks. Not buy t-90M. Armata is another story because it's a unified chassi for all new vehicles so they will have to switch to it but t-90M isn't needed.

T-90m doesn't bring anything valuable that upgraded t-72 and t-80 don't have.

If they buy new tanks buy t-14. Until then upgrade t-72 and even t-64M.

T-90M is like mig-35. Good but came to late when they already have a generation ahead replacement. Spending money on them is dumb and useless.

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.

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.

This is another type of hilarious discussion I like best.
What do you even discuss about?

US has the potential to produce perfectly zero tanks.
No M1 was made since the late 90s in a country other than Egypt.
All fancy, shiny and freshly painted cars are made of junk sitting on the desert.
250 pcs that Poland paid the bribe for are supposed to start deliveries in ... 2025 only. 4 years after contracting, at an unknown peak.

UK just started an "upgrade" of Ch2 that will be carried till 2027, with a whole 148 (!!) pcs upgraded for seven years.
Not made new. Upgraded. A whole 20+ pcs a year.

Germany is not producing new Leo2s for at least 15 years. All that goes are refurbished tanks taken from storage.

France hasn't made a single tank for at least a decade, as nobody needs them.

From this perspective, Poland while capable to make some +/-15 refurbished T-72s and some more of Leo2 simultaneously seems to be among the NATO tank superpowers.

So if we combine all of them together, what we have is some 50-100 pcs a year, and not produced but refurbished.

Someone who is yapping about insufficient number of Russian tank program must be insane.
With 200-250 pcs each year, for years, including both newly built and modernized. A new generation is already rolling.
At a budget of about 1/20 (one twentieth!!!) of the combined budget of a countries we talk about.

It is trolling, nothing else.

And yes, each and any car mechanic is perfectly capable of working with tanks, because all the aggregates are just same or similar. Training won't different much if one would change a job from VAG group to PSA. While most of people who deal with repairing agrotechnical units of trucks, wouldn't have a single issue with that.

You need a shitton of ammo and logistic chains for such tactics.

The atgm team can always sneak between the lines somewhere and hit your tanks. Specially if they have a 8km range or more atgm.

You can't just bomb all the area with artillery. They use it at targets that were detected, not random shooting.

Even Russia can't fire massively all day long. Shooting a shell take 2 seconds. Building it few hours.

Ukrainian are still using their ATGM on the front. Russian artillery isn't supressing them. With suicide drone it is even easier to attack tanks from 20km away. Go find a guy woth a drone in the middle of a city or a forest area.

What he said was to obliterate an area with artillery. They won't choose the zone randomly but they will shoot randomly in that zone.

@Garry
For the record, I've been to Russia multiple times, traveled around the country and know how regular Russian people live and have some knowledge of the language. On the other hand, you have a picture of Russia in your head, built on God knows what. Closest you've seen Russia is if you've watched Sochi Olympics or World Cup in 2018.

I don't care if you are married to Putins daughters, claiming corruption and an incompetent military requires actual evidence and all the visible evidence shows you are dead wrong.

The Russian military has transformed itself... in 2008 no two Russian soldiers had the same camoflage jacket to match their trousers... these days they have the second generation super soldier gear called Ratnik, with the third upgrade due in about two years time to further improve it.

Has any western country made the same level of progress?

They have rebuilt themselves from the ground up and are a world class force, which you feel the need to berate and complain about.

So highlight any minor problems you see and ignore all the progress...

BTW I have never been to the Middle East so I guess I can't be a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim...

Ethnically I am told I am European but I have never been there either.

Someone who is yapping about insufficient number of Russian tank program must be insane.
With 200-250 pcs each year, for years, including both newly built and modernized. A new generation is already rolling.
At a budget of about 1/20 (one twentieth!!!) of the combined budget of a countries we talk about.

Something many ignore, the US and HATOs combined defence spend doubles it to about 1.3 trillion per year... have they developed five new vehicle families to replace their entire vehicle park... including one family optimised for arctic and amphibious operations (two chassis artillery tractors), together with heavy tracked (Armata) medium tracked (kurganets), medium wheeled (Boomerang) and light wheeled (Typhoon), not to mention likely variants of the medium vehicles for naval use and possible use of the light wheeled vehicles for air borne use...

Western armour is in a shambles with the UK not even knowing if it will keep using tanks in the future or if they just cost too much and slow them down too much.

The Javelin gunner cannot push the fire button if you riddle his ass with shrapnel first.

Javelin has a range of less than 3km and in its safest mode is fire and forget where it flys high up into the air and then looks down to find the target it locked when it was launched... if it climbs up and looks down and can't find what it locked on to it will miss... whether that is because of a roof structure on top of the tank hiding the engine and hot parts or if it is a smoke grenade fired when the Javelin was launched and the missile was detected by its rocket motor IR signature in an IR sensor optics array.

If you have to use the Javelin in command to line of sight mode you are sitting still for a long period of time with a missile that has less armour penetration than most because it was designed to penetrate the top of a tank not the front or side.

The atgm team can always sneak between the lines somewhere and hit your tanks. Specially if they have a 8km range or more atgm.

Very true, though Javelin has nothing like that range in any version, the point is that there are actually only a few places you can hit a tank that will assure its complete destruction... most of the time the crew can escape if the tank is immobilised, or continue operating if the missile hits a strong point or at the wrong angle, or misses completely because smoke was launched or optics was jammed.

You need a shitton of ammo and logistic chains for such tactics.

I don't think he means a rolling thunder scorched earth policy... more what they are doing in the Ukraine... draw the enemy out to counter attack and hammer them when they leave cover and are in the open and then hit them again as they retreat...

Yeah, dudes will just chance it out in the open lugging very unwieldy and unmistakable missile tubes when anyone and anything that spots them can call artillery on their ass in 30 seconds flat. Very realistic.

It is interesting that western ATGM tubes are big and bulky and seem to be designed for shipping rather than mobility on a battlefield.

In comparison if you look at Metis-M1, three men can carry the launcher and five missiles ready to fire... one man with one missile and the launcher, and two mean each with two missiles...

It will be interesting to see what performance the Bulat has as it appears to be much smaller and lighter than Kornet... perhaps a good replacement for Metis?

Even Russia can't fire massively all day long. Shooting a shell take 2 seconds. Building it few hours.

But they seem to be.

The Orcs have tens of thousands of Javelins and tens of thousands of Stingers... the Russians have not lost tens of thousands of vehicles nor tens of thousands of aircraft.

But there isn't an APS on the T-90M

They seem to be delaying introducing an operational APS till they are perfect, which I think is short sighted... early ERA were not perfect but over time got much better and more flexible and capable... operational experience will lead to money being spent on the systems and feed back from the field will lead to improvements and upgrades to make them better, and production will make them cheaper.

There will never be a fool proof system that stops everything, but something is better than nothing.

Perhaps they are waiting for Lidar sensors...

Bleeding ego while lacking one

In this war we have how many days of it...10 months...and looses are around 2000 tanks, maybe less on both sides....this is nothing conpare what they lost in that Yom Kippur war in just 15 days...

Agree.

Modern equipment is nice but you must have a large quantity of any tank or bmp. T-14 is unlikely to be produced in the thousnands. They need to start mass producing a lighter tank.

They understood that with the t-54/55 after the WW2. But they screw up with t-80/72 that gain too much weight, specially in last variants which made them produce far less of them compare to the tens of thousands of t-54 produced.

T-14 is taller, bigger and way more advanced than t-90M. It's more expensive. Simple logic, even you should be ake to understand this.

AD is considered as a strategical need for Russia because of its huge size. No matter what they will always invest in AD system. However they still have far less new systems than their older analogues.


New system are more advanced and more expensive. That's true for any system  that's why armies get smaller. But once you are too small, even if you have better technology, you will loose to the more numerous less advanced armies.

They used to build thousand of mig-25, mig-23 and su-24 then only hundreds of mig-29 and su-27 and now they barely reach 100 jets like su-35. And only 76 su-57 planes which was yo be far less before Putin asked for more.

T-90M and t-14 are way more expensive than upgraded t-64 and t-72. You can't replace all the tanks with t-14 no matter what.

And since Russia need a big army they will have to create a much cheaper tank or keep upgrading its old t-72 series. Just like they won't be able to buy hundreds of su-57 so they will have to buy the cheap su-75.

If they keep only the expensive and advance products they will end up with an army similar to europeans ones. Very good and very well armed but too small for any war.


And next time stay on the sibject. AD have nothing to do with tanks. If you can't argument on tanks, don't talk at all