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Originally Posted by Yars
Happy now?
I thought that number is closely to 400 by now, 270 T-90 were back than in 2006 , in 2007 31 T-90s were produced and unknown number in 2008?
to zg18
Happy now?
yep!very happy!
It wouldn't be the first or only time.....history ended for him in 1991 and the sky is about to fall on us
Aha, interesting. So this is where the last batch went to. I thought it was used to complete 2nd GMRD. Did the started the rearmament in march or is it already a completed unit with trained crews?All this pictures was found and posted today to russian forums by me personally, and all ARE from 7th military base in Abkhazia, Gudauta. Tank battalion of 131 omsbr was rearmed with them in March and now all over "Odnoklassniki" are tons of fotos of happy tankers of this brigade, posing with their new equipment
New. They began switching to T-90s and BTR-80As fairly recently. You can see reinforced tooth ring on that ZPU-7 to have no wear what so ever.
1). Why then tanks are in the field?
2). Why they are masked and entrenched?
3). Look at the dates on photos. Why there are no snow and green vegetation ebverywhere?
So whole system of fire controll costs 20% of cost of the tank (the best way) and thermals is half of it?
I'm not a big fan of Airforce and aviation in general, but maybe someone here will find this interesting.
It's a zip archive of a Excel file which has all info about the Airforce reform - how many planes and what kind of every regiment have, how many will they have in 2010 etc.
http://www.ryadovoy.ru/forum/index.p...1.0;attach=280
State-of-the-art IR arrays (aka Thermal imagers) can cost about $1 million. The type that are used in satellites for example. Add the software, optics and the necessary cooling system.
So what is the latest variant of the T-90 then? T-90A, T-90S??? Just curious what kind of upgrades have happened to the T-90 as it by far my most favorite tank.
Regards...
AFAIK the latest is the T-90A (originally called T-90M) with a welded turret and Catherine-FC thermal sights.
Satellite IR and tank IR are a lil bit different. The cost of one T-90A is about 3,5-4 mln$ and one Lacross is about 1 bln$.
P.S. Thales thermalvisors for T-90
T-90A
Main external difference is the welded turret which is protected by Relikt armour.
It has the ESSA Sight (Catherine TI camera is part of it) mated with Laser Range Finder, Wind Sensor + 1G46 day sight. Auto Tracking capability, new navigation system and some other stuff.
Another pretty interesting addition is the "Ainet" fuse setting system which allows the tank to detonate HE-FRAG rounds at predetermined moment of flight
Relikt on a T-90? I have yet to see such a thing.
Quite right, though it was designed with the VDV in mind based on the BMD-3 chassis for the purpose of anti tank use. The Naval forces have used tanks in that role rather than the PT-76 specifically, I have no information which vehicles the Sprut will replace. They might replace the T series tanks used by the naval infantry while the PT-76 might get an upgrade with an S-60 57mm main gun replacing the 76.2mm main gun. Or they might replace the PT-76 and put the new S-60 gun on some of the SPRUT vehicles. Having a gun that can fire at up to 120 rpm a shell as powerful as the 57mm round or any new 57mm rounds that might be developed would make a very powerful anti APC vehicle able to smash any non tank based APC from most combat ranges with a very high engagement rate. Together with SPRUTs that would be an impressive force.The Sprut-SD is not exclusively for the VDV (airborne forces).
There is one photo of this vehicle during an amphibious landing from a ROPUCHA class landing ship. That indicates that it may equip the black berets (Russian marines) units. In that case, it will be indeed a PT-76 replacement.
I wonder if the design of the modified PT-76s allow dual feed so an anti personel round together with an anti armour round could be available for immediate use all the time like with the dual feed 30mm guns of the Russian IFVs.
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