T-90 Main Battle Tank #2

Well i know what i am talking about, because we test our KAO 99 ERA and i see what happened to armor if he is thin. Russians put rubber inserts between ERA on roof of tanks, because it will absorbe explosion of era panel, and want activated all panels on the roof. Also this kind of protection will not protect at all tank against of heat charges, because as i said you need more base armor to ERA properly works.

Because of that you do not have K1 light armor, but he isnt at all light on BMPs or BTRs, because they do not have enough base armor for it...they made new type of ERA for this vehicles, they do not use K1 at all.

PS. I am Serbian not Croatian....when i write on my Serbian language i use cyrilic alphabet not latin one...

This is Rubber inserts under the ERA bricks I mentioned in my comment not rubber for radiation... And yes i know what i am talking about EA because i see how its work in real life on real vehicle...Combat approved are you joking me. this show is one big joke and nothing more...

Well i know what i am talking about, because we test our KAO 99 ERA and i see what happened to armor if he is thin.

The purpose of this roof armour is as standoff armour, where it does not need to stop heavy ATGM HEAT warheads.

Most of the time the threats will be 30mm APFSDS rounds from an A-10s gatling gun, a 30mm DP round from an AH-64 Apache, a hand grenade or hand grenade sized bomb released from a drone or flown into the vehicle by a drone, a Javelin ATGM, which will likely fail to guide because from above there is no heat signature to get a lock on in the first place and the small HEAT warheads of top attack submunitions from US artillery shells.

Of those threats this armour defeats by default the hand grenades that have to actually enter the crew hatches to do damage, and also the Javelin missiles which will fail to lock on target because the cage will be cold.

The other potential threats to the vehicle will have their performance dramatically reduced by this cage mounted protection by setting off HE and HEAT rounds away from the roof armour and roof ERA adding an air gap of half a metre to the defensive layer.

To make the ERA cage armour stop penetrations completely you would need a rather thick and rather large sheet of armour underneath it which would be incredibly useless... having that sort of weight above your turret would be dangerous and the number of supporting struts needed to hold it in place would be ridiculous.

It would add too much weight to the turret and likely reduce the rotation rate of the turret and likely lead to other serious problems with the vehicle.

The problem was hand grenades and RPG rockets on drones and the solution shown addresses that threat efficiently and effectively.

Also this kind of protection will not protect at all tank against of heat charges, because as i said you need more base armor to ERA properly works.

Most HEAT charges that would be delivered in this direction are rather weak... especially from submunitions and cannon shells... in such a case this cage armour is just to set the round off rather than stop it completely.

The text Caveat posted was described as Croatian, but Rodion has explained that sufficiently.

Combat approved are you joking me. this show is one big joke and nothing more...

It has a sense of humour, but I don't think they are lying or faking anything.

This is Rubber inserts under the ERA bricks I mentioned in my comment not rubber for radiation...

That rubber is external, that vehicle has ERA plates under that rubber material.

I suspect that is something like Nakidka that is intended to reduce the radar and IR signature of the vehicle.

That image in post 932 makes me think of a palace that has had an extension and a few changes added to make it more grand...

Funny how over the years the west has laughed at Soviet and Russian innovation... they laughed at the BMP and the smoothbore main tank gun and ERA blocks and cage armour and now roof cage armour.... yet you look at modifications to their vehicles in combat and they copy all these ideas with no mention that they were once mocked.

I guess it is the enemy propaganda machine that responds to new things before consulting experts and understanding why they do the things they do.

Even a silly example is the AK-47 with the magazine curved forwards... most graphics and art designers think they should be curved the other way, and in some situations it makes it though to the final cut like the movie "the fifth element".





For those that don't understand the bullets the AK uses are not straight sided, they get narrower to the front and thicker to the rear so when you stack them they naturally curve. Try to jam them in a straight mag and that is what they will do... jam.

Hole wrote:

This is a new skirt design. See how the ERA modules aren't perfectly flush together? That's because they are attached to the fixed side plate with a chain. If the tank sideswipes something the modules can be pushed and give way instead of being ripped apart.

https://www.facebook.com/K01Archive/posts/pfbid06H8H9RBXJiYDSY6dXDhqUYE9SruZaXCQtsUnKhZbtrZREfiDbPTXaSGYoSCStBbel

T-90's turret assembled at the UVZ factory. Notably, the hatch for extraction of spent cartridge cases here is covered by ERA. Which mean that location has been struck by FPV ammunition in the battlefield.

T-90's turret assembled at the UVZ factory. Notably, the hatch for extraction of spent cartridge cases here is covered by ERA. Which mean that location has been struck by FPV ammunition in the battlefield.

That is a bit of an assumption... why would they not put ERA on the spent cartridge ejection hatch?

They usually put cage armour around the engine exhaust because the heat makes the explosives in ERA sweat and become volatile, but they seem to put the stuff everywhere else because it is effective... why would they not put it on a hatch that opens automatically?

They put ERA on anything now.
As soon as they invented transparent ERA blocks they will put them in front of the optics. 

contrary to popular belief, Vacuum-1 could fit in the autoloader with very minimal changes

Hole wrote:They put ERA on anything now.

I think probably you are correct...