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Russia's Dangerous T-14 Armata Tank: Ready for War Next Year?

posted by takyon on Monday September 19 2016, @05:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the dangerous-for-whom? dept.

Runaway1956 writes:

From the Serious Gun Porn department!

The Russian Ground Forces are set to take delivery of the first production models of the T-14 Armata main battle tank starting in 2017. The Russian army has taken delivery of twenty pre-production version of the tank for operational testing—which is currently under way just outside Moscow at Kubinka. The first operational T-14 unit is likely to be stood up in Siberia with a unit that performed particularly well during the invasion of Crimea according to a source.

"Test of the Armata are going according to schedule without any problems," Alexei Zharich, deputy director of Uralvagonzavod told the Russian language daily Izvestia. "Serial deliveries could begin at any moment—as soon as the customer wants it."

However, Zharich seems to be addressing only the T-14 main battle tank variant. He didn't address the other combat vehicles that are part of the Armata family—it's not clear if those vehicles are also in production. The Armata Universal Combat Platform consists of the T-14 main battle tank, the T-15 heavy infantry fighting vehicle and the T-16 armored recovery vehicle, among a host of other vehicles. Another member of the Armata family includes an upgunned heavy assault armored vehicle, which has been dubbed "the Tank Killer" by Russian media. The "Tank Killer" variant seems to incorporate a derivative of the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV's 152mm artillery piece into the Armata chassis in a direct fire mounting.

There are a number of articles about the T-14 Armata on the web - I chose to use this one for this submission. Also at sputniknews.com.

takyon: Here's video of the T-14 in action. Russia is also building six new Project 636.3 Kilo-class attack submarines and is working on railguns, exoskeletons, "robot avatars", and smart bullets.

The U.S. Army will begin testing a truck-mounted 50 kW laser in 2017, and scale it to 100 kW in later tests. The Army will also be testing new 155mm, 50mm, and 35mm guns and artillery. The U.S. Navy will begin using shipping container sized Pulsed Power Container Systems from General Atomics as it tests its own railgun technology.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @06:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @06:22PM (#403886)

    Actually, I have one and GPS is the largest problem by far. It keeps telling me I'm in Russia when I'm clearly in Ukraine. Also, for some reason it defaults to routes through Poland and Moldova.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Monday September 19 2016, @06:33PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday September 19 2016, @06:33PM (#403894)

    It's a legacy feature from stealing old Nazi tech. There was a bug on the old Panzer which took them to France via the Ardennes instead of the shorter Ligne Maginot sightseeing route.
    Fairly commonplace in the industry: The US ended up in Korea and then Vietnam when they were trying to get to Moscow, and just about everyone takes a detour through Kabul, even when they only try to reach Baghdad.
    Occasionally, it affects cruise missiles, which get lost in Iran or in Chinese embassies...

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:24AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:24AM (#404083) Journal

    I think you're mistaken. The T-14 is reportedly equipped with GLONASS navigation:

    The roof of the turret houses a meteorological mast, satellite communications, global navigation satellite system (GLONASS), data-link and radio communications antennae.

    --https://www.dsiac.org/resources/news/t-14-armata-main-battle-tank-russia [dsiac.org]

    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:39AM

      by driverless (4770) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:39AM (#404181)

      The roof of the turret houses a meteorological mast, satellite communications, global navigation satellite system (GLONASS), data-link and radio communications antennae.

      It would sound better if it was stated as "Roof of turret houses meteorological mast, satellite communications, global navigation satellite system (GLONASS), data-link and radio communications antennae".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:39PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:39PM (#404248)

        Why do you hate articles?

        • (Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:42PM

          by driverless (4770) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:42PM (#404250)

          I don't, but their absence in Russian means rendering the sentence that way would give it a more genuine Russian feel.

          Have nice day.

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:24AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:24AM (#404162) Journal
    It's equipped with GLONASS, which likely has the issues that you describe. GPS would probably tell it that it was in the Himalayas when it's actually in Syria...
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