Posted on Apr 28, 2022
Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw
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So I'm thinking about the new Armata, it also uses an autoloader with an unmanned turret. I suspect it will have the same design flaw as the older Russian tanks with autoloaders. I suppose the crew may be more likely to survive in the Armata due to the separate crew compartment but a tank without a turret isn't going to be very combat effective.
Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw
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Just some quick thoughts. When I was a tank commander in an M1 my vantage point was around 11 feet in the air. It gave me good visibility and 360 awareness. My question is how does the Russian tank commander in the Armata get his situational awareness? It would be foolish if he does not have optics at a the top of the tank. Even if he had the proper optics his situational awareness is degraded. As a tank commander I had to give minute driving instructions because the driver was only a few feet from the ground. He could not see well if it is not a flat terrain. Same goes for the gunner. If he can only see from the near ground level, he is missing out on situational awareness.
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SPC Kevin Ford
MAJ Ken Landgren That's a great point and one that I (and perhaps most non tankers) never really thought about. I always knew in buttoned up tanks visibility is an issue but now they are also reducing the visibility of the commander when the tank isn't buttoned up too.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SPC Kevin Ford - It was hell buttoned up because I had to look through thick prisms, and I could see very little, but I could see what the gunner was seeing. The gunner has optics at the very height of the tanks. He can see with thermal or natural colors.
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..."The problem relates to how the tanks' ammunition is stored. Unlike modern Western tanks, Russian ones carry multiple shells within their turrets. This makes them highly vulnerable as even an indirect hit can start a chain reaction that explodes their entire ammunition store of up to 40 shells.
The resulting shockwave can be enough to blast the tank's turret as high as a two-story building, as can be seen in a recent video on social media.
A man inspects destroyed tank of the Russian army about 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, the Ukraine capital."...
The resulting shockwave can be enough to blast the tank's turret as high as a two-story building, as can be seen in a recent video on social media.
A man inspects destroyed tank of the Russian army about 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, the Ukraine capital."...
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