Isn't that more of a lack of a new tank to produce, rather then the ability to produce a new tank?
EDIT: Also, where is the M10 Booker being built?
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Isn't that more of a lack of a new tank to produce, rather then the ability to produce a new tank?
EDIT: Also, where is the M10 Booker being built?
The US has had two programs to make a replacement for the Abrams (FCS and GCV) and both were failures. In the Future Combat Systems the whole armored component was to be replaced with lighter vehicles based on a common platform. It was perceived that advances in APS made heavy armor redundant. It was meant to be easier to transport by air and be capable of expeditionary warfare. Well that program was a failure. Then you had the Ground Combat Vehicle. You were supposed to have a heavier vehicle that would be more suitable for city fighting against Russia or China. It was supposed to have a common chassis and was initially expected to produce an IFV variant. Another failure.
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I mean, most of Europe doesn't keep a global military footprint and they are too shitting the bed with regards to production of even the most simplest of things.
The Kharkov plant is where it was originally produced the T80?
Is the Kharkov plant still operative? Does Ukraine produce anything there?
T-64, T-80UD(not to be confused with other 80, it's basically 64 development), 84(Oplot).
It works mostly as a very capable and advanced tank repair plant at this point. But yes, it's operational.
Russia has developed an automatic defense system against drones, the Stupor complex. The Stupor company, we previously talked about their complexes, announced the creation of a complex designed to effectively protect objects from drone attacks. Due to the ever-increasing threat from drones, the demand for these systems around the world is constantly growing. The complex works automatically without an operator and can transfer data to the operator’s phone; the complex uses elements of artificial intelligence. The Stupor system was developed based on complementary detection systems, such as phased array radar, radio frequency scanner, optical UAV recognition station and counter-drone capabilities. It is worth noting that adding an optical drone recognition station to the complex is a very correct decision, since not all drones can be detected by radars; due to the small EPR of UAVs and especially FPV drones, it is becoming increasingly difficult to detect them. The complex is capable of interrupting the drone control channel, replacing coordinates and intercepting control of drones. The Stupor complex is capable of detecting UAVs at a range of up to 5 kilometers and suppressing drones at a range of up to 2 kilometers; the complex forms a protective field of 360 degrees.
The Kharkov plant was where the T-34, T-64, and T-80 were designed. The T-80 was produced in variants with the opposing piston diesel engine there as well. After the Soviet collapse they exported the T-80UD to Pakistan and designed the T-84 Oplot. The Kharkov plant mostly refurbishes T-64 tanks for Ukraine today. But I doubt it has much output given that it is close to the border with Russia and can be easily bombed.
Nizhny Tagil designed the T-54, T-62, T-72, T-90, T-14 tanks. Today they make the T-90M (new and upgraded) and T-72B3M (upgraded).
The gas turbine variant of the T-80 was designed and produced at Omsk. The Omsk plant also produces the chassis for the Msta-S artillery. They had a project for a modernized T-80 with an extra pair of roadwheels in the 1990s called the "Black Eagle" but it got cancelled. Today they make the T-80BVM tank upgrade and are ramping up to make whole new tanks.
The Leningrad plant used to be where heavy tanks were designed. They developed the KV-1, IS-2, and T-10. But it was closed down with the Soviet collapse. I think they make agricultural tractors today.
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decline in numbers is not as important as other metrics. like Quality, Complexity, maintainability, reliability and training of systems. it need very different population characteristic to achieve the later. Even Soviet Union was not capable of fighting this Ukraine war. Shoigu himself said that intensity of transport aviation is more than twice of Soviets. these transports does fly around outside Russia.
you often get this videos of choppers with fuel tank keep repeating. because this chopper fly at ultra low altitude long distance. they need to show reality near to the ground. this happened in Syria where those tanks were given so others can test it.
Kharkhiv Tank Plant has been bombed out of existence. Whatever was left was used to make parts and repair tanks, and those facilities were also wiped out. I previously posted of these events among Russia's relentless drone and missile strikes. The last months since the fall of 2023 in particular is aimed at completely obliterating what's left of the Ukrainian MIC.
The MT-LB tractor was built in huge numbers in that plant and both Russia and Ukraine inherited huge numbers of them. The chassis was used as the basis for the 2S1 Gvozdika 122mm howitzer SPG, the Shturm-S using tank destroyer and the Strela-10, the Gvozdika done by the same plant. Without the plant, the parts to maintain the fleet for Ukraine is on borrowed time, and for the Russians it's been on borrowed time for a while. This is why the Russians have no qualms using MT-LBs as remote ground kamekaze drones to clear mine fields or to even troll as FPV drone bait.
It's likely that the Ukrainians inherited the greater share of the 2S1 Gvozdika over the Russians even as both used the SPG in the conflict. Destruction of the plant makes it difficult to maintain and repair the Gvozdika outside of existing parts inventories and cannibalizing MT-LBs and other Gvozdikas.
The Gvozdika is among the most common targets by Lancets and continues to this day which points that the Ukrainians still have surprisingly large numbers of them.
Russian sappers demonstrated a method for remote mining of terrain with POM-2 anti-personnel mines using an RPG-7 grenade launcher. Sappers screw a mine onto a powder engine from a rocket-propelled grenade for an RPG-7 and mine at a range of up to 2 kilometers. The POM-2 family of mines includes several ammunition, the mass of the mine is 1500 grams, the amount of explosive is 140 grams, the radius of continuous destruction is 16 meters. This method allows sappers to safely carry out mining without entering the line of fire