The primary use of the T-90 tanks in Ukraine was as targets
Posted on 03/23/2023 5:04:26 AM PDT by familyop
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the aggressor country, has said that the Russian military industry "has gained momentum" and began to produce types of weapons no worse than Western models.
Source: Interfax news agency, citing Medvedev's interview with Russian propagandists
Quote from Medvedev: "The military industry has grown up, it is working actively, most of the businesses (I'm saying this firsthand because I visit them often) work in three shifts, work, as they say, from the wheels – they provide the troops with everything directly, produce the most modern Russian types of weapons – even in a situation where they are trying to deprive us of components, cut off the oxygen in certain directions."
Details: According to him, now the military industry produces "very decent types of weapons, military and special equipment and weapons of destruction."
For example, he recalled the T-90M Proryv tank, which, according to Medvedev, is "the best tank in the world" and surpasses the Western-made Leopard, Challenger, and Abrams.
"They talk about this proverbial HIMARS all the time; this is quite a worthy weapon, nothing to argue about here. But we have a type of weapon no worse than that, which has the same accuracy and effective range, and [it] is better," he says.
He also said that the Russian military industry is supposed to produce 1,500 tanks this year. "Our enemies believed that our industry would choke, like, we would lose everything – these are their endless conversations: "They ran out of shells, they ran out of tanks, they ran out of missiles", and so on. We will make 1500 tanks this year," he said.
Background: According to the Conflict Intelligence Team, the Russian military de-mothballed and began sending the T-54/55 Soviet medium tanks produced in the 1940s-1950s to the combat zone in Ukraine.
The primary use of the T-90 tanks in Ukraine was as targets
one of the few where the turret actually stayed on ...
even the Russians admit the T-90 was crap
It’s over. Go home to your family and try and behave like a man, rather than a Biden bootlick.
Cut them some slack Jon. They're just trying to keep the dream alive./s
It’s Clown Theater!
All of the Russian modern tanks have the same problem based on a design choice they made about 60 years ago - an autoloader with ammunition and propellant stored on the bottom of the turret. When a top attack munition penetrates the top armor of the turret there is a very high probability that the jet will hit one of the propellant charges or one of the high explosive round warheads. You get a propellant fire that spreads extremely rapidly or an immediate detonation of the HE round. It made sense to do this when all the hits were expected to be from flat trajectory fire, but the top attack approach has been a real game changer.
This may true, in the sense that Russia has produced a handful of bespoke weapons systems, with marvelous capabilities. But Germany proved, in WWII, that in an attritional, industrial war, a handful of Wunderwaffe not only do not change the outcome, but the industrial effort expended on them would have been better used in producing greater numbers of more mundane weapons.
I do see the difference! The disinfo turds of the Ukes appear to be a little runnier than the other Western or Russian disinfo. Heh, we all appreciate your comparative study on propaganda horse $hit.
Muddy is a drunk little lapdog. He sees a bug coming in from the west and he runs around threatening nukes.
He should be ignored.
more personal insults
obviously you got NO battlefield successes to talk about, correct?
I am a man of peace. No war for me, thank you. You, on the other hand, have said that only a lack of airline fare keeps you from doing a “Full Zelenskyy” in a Bakhmut field trench. I’ll help you with that.
You Russians have a very bizarre affinity for homosexuality. I mean, it’s in almost every comment you make.
In theory, it’s not difficult to produce a HIMARS (really a GMLRS) equivalent. Starting with say the ex-Soviet Uragan rocket system.
The guidance could be based on the Russian GLONASS the Russian GPS equivalent. This service should be able to produce acceptable accuracy. The question is adapting a cheap, munitions grade satellite receiver on the Uragan warheads, and a linked maneuvering package to the rocket. This would be a completely new missile system vs the old Uragan unguided rockets.
There is supposedly a guided version of the Uragan rockets already. Or there was, details are sketchy.
You prefer the Xi bootlick, Putin?
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