The Soviets have never really given a damn about the safety of their crews so redesigning their tanks to preserve life was not a consideration.
I’ll give the Russians a bit of credit for designing the T-14 with a remote controlled turret and an up armored crew compartment. What remains to be seen is if this design gets past the initial production and makes it into the final procurement design.
Based on every previous platform the Soviets/Russians have rolled out I suspect they’ll once again sacrifice crew safety and comfort for cost savings. The pinhead Russian military accountants will always go for quantity over quality.
Even the Germans acknowledged that for overall battlefield performance, the T-34 was the best fighting vehicle deployed. Does anyone know whatever happened to the man who designed that tank. Was he killed in the Stalinist purges?
I’ll give the Russians a bit of credit for designing the T-14
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Maybe, if you send them your credits, they could actually produce one. It would be the first Russian production tank built in the last 10 years.