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    T-90 and T--90M Main Battle Tank #3

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    Post  GarryB Thu Sep 12, 2024 5:19 am

    Other thread is fixed but need a new thread anyway so here it is.

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    Post  ALAMO Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:56 pm

    My latest catch scratch

    Ammunition selector on the T-90M of the new modification.

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    What shocked me is the number of ammo types it includes.
    Left to right :
    Y (Upravialny) -noch - guided missile/night channel
    Y - guided
    B - bronieboyny - armor piercing
    K - kumilativny - HEAT
    O - oskolechny - HE
    P - ?
    R - ?
    S - ?

    In the other tanks with new ammunition, the selector in the "P" mode is being used for prolonged APDS rounds ...
    But the last two are totally new for me.
    One might be "Telnik", and I would guess "S" - specyalny.

    Edit :

    I have just checked what I can find with the "regular" T-90M from a different material, and ...

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    It is the best I could squeeze out of it, but yoc can see that it is a different animal.
    Starts with "Y/U", later goes B, K ...
    I will try to look for a better version.

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    Post  Hole Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:24 pm

    and I would guess "S" - specyalny.
    "Special rounds" are usually nuclear.  lol1

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    Post  Arrow Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:26 pm

    Special rounds" are usually nuclear. wrote:

    The smallest nuclear artillery shell was 152mm Wink
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    Post  GarryB Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:06 am

    The smallest that we know of... have you seen the difference in size between a 152mm and 125mm... the difference is not enormous... 50kg vs 20kg.... if they can manage 10Kt from a 152mm shell and 20Kt from the 240mm Tulip... they should be able to manage a 2Kt from a 125/122 calibre if they wanted... Smile
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    Post  ALAMO Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:57 am

    There was some ukro commenting the tank they have captured, claiming that this sort of ammo selector is there since the Russian made FCS replaced the Belarussian Sosna-U.
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    Post  lyle6 Wed Oct 09, 2024 11:57 am


    They show Rembat guys mating the functional turret and hull of two disabled tanks into an operational vehicle.

    This is the secret behind the resiliency of armored formations btw. They could just mix and match all sorts of components from hundreds of vehicles, crank out functional vehicles in a matter of days. With electronic record keeping the donor pool is the whole of the SMO battlespace - ask for a rare part and there is probably a disabled vehicle out there that can be stripped and the part shipped or flown by a helicopter to your repair yard.

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    Post  Scorpius Wed Oct 09, 2024 3:12 pm

    lyle6 wrote:
    They show Rembat guys mating the functional turret and hull of two disabled tanks into an operational vehicle.

    14:30 the video shows a crew member of this very tank, he reports that the tank was disabled, having received about 16 hits. The crew then led the tank away from the battlefield on their own.

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    Post  lyle6 Wed Oct 09, 2024 9:10 pm

    Sounds about right. Even with succesful hits that actually penetrate the armor, unless you are striking the fuel or ammo inside its actually very difficult to destroy a tank.

    Closest you can get is probably striking the turret ring collar (gunners are actually taught to aim at this junction, not center mass). That way the turret and the hull can't accept other turrets/hulls and would have to be shipped to the rear to have the damage machined out.


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    Post  PhSt Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:27 am


    https://rutube.ru/video/78f82cd5685b1502a5d3ad449be30c4f/

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