Offensive Defence
Armata 101. The new tank will weigh 48 tons and could hit speeds of more than 50 miles per hour, according to a spec sheet released by Russia's TASS news agency and translated by the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office. The three-person tank will be able to fire up to 12 rounds per minute from a 125 mm main gun that can fire multiple types of munitions, including guided missiles, with a range topping out at 8,000 meters.
High-tech highlights include circular-view cameras, a heat sensor and the Afganit active protection complex, which reportedly uses radar to detect incoming threats and destroys them with a rocket.
The peaceful order of a peaceful world is once again assured by the latest news from Russia's Ministry of Defence. A new line of war machines has been developed by the Russian arms industry. The fruit of their efforts will be on proud display at the Red Square Victory Day parade scheduled for Saturday.
Nothing quite works to expand a nation's chest with unbridled pride as a display of mighty powerful war machines.
And Moscow will get its annual fix on Saturday with the display of the showcasing of the Koalitsiya-SV artillery system; the Bumerang armoured personnel carrier; the Kurganets 25 infantry fighting vehicle; and the Kornet D1, an anti-tank rocket system mounted on a Tigr, the Russian version of the American Humvee.
It remains to be seen whether the Tigr will be driven by civilians on the streets of Moscow, in prideful emulation of the U.S. civilian propensity to acquire Humvees and drive the beasts on regional roads and highways, signalling the might and the power of military equipment to entrance the imagination of non-military envy.
The T-14 Armata tank is semi-robotic, its turret previously covered in partial display to ensure that its full revelation will come as a complete surprise at the emerging robotic technology. Russian military experts crow that it has been designed to compete and outdistance the American Abrams tank, Britain's Challenger, and Germany's Leopard. Eclipsing nicely the West's supremacy in battlefield armour.
The fly in the triumphant Kremlin ointment, however, is whether the country's military-industrial complex will be capable of meeting a 2020 target of 2,300 tanks, in reflection of the ailing economy and low oil prices. But the parade must go on to celebrate Nazi Germany's defeat, and on May 9, it will with 16,000 marching troops, 194 vehicles and 143 military aircraft bruising the skies over Moscow.
Labels: Armaments, Russia, WWII
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, May 06, 2015
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