The New Year's batch of T-90M and T-72B3M tanks has entered service with the Russian Armed Forces. The tanks were manufactured at the Russian tank plant Uralvagonzavod. Over the past few years, over a hundred changes have been made to the design of Russian tanks. The tanks are now equipped with anti-FVP drone nets and rubber-reinforced protection, the "Mangal" type of protection. The rear, engine, and engine-transmission compartment of the tanks have received additional protection. In addition, the equipment is equipped with means of reducing visibility and electronic warfare systems to counter drones.
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UZGA started out assembling twin engine Diamond DA42 aircraft kits for civilian pilot training in Russia under license.
The Russian Air Force also ordered some Diamond DA42 aircraft from them. Diamond is an Austrian company, i.e. a neutral country in the EU, but not in NATO. And right now they are owned by a Chinese parent company i.e. Wanfeng Aviation like you said.
My guess is it at least started out as a total DART clone, but then UZGA modified the design. Like @sahureka said the wings in the serial production aircraft look different as well as other design elements.
UZGA used to just build aircraft under license but increasingly they are making their own designs like the LMS-901 Baikal. They also have their own engine design bureau. This engine design bureau got assigned several tasks. The serial production of the VK-800 turboprop engine, and the serial production of the Motor-Sich D-18T engine for the An-124.
I am surprised they haven't tried putting their T-64 tanks into use. I think they have at least a thousand in storage. Maybe it is just to avoid confusion with enemy tanks. Thus far only the Donbass militia used to use these tanks.
Uzbekistan has modified their T-64s to use the V-84 engine of the T-72.
So even that weird horizontal engine (5TD or 6TD) in the T-64 wouldn't be an issue.
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I guess the VMF will be more convinced to buy Ka-52 for their forces now. Always find it unfortunate to see they try repelling USV attacks at Black Sea in extremely close proximity with doorgun when Ka-52 can do it much safer distance using their Vikhr and search the targets with their Arbalet radar.
and more press to get the Brimestone analogue based on the Kh-39 for perhaps Sukhoi and UAV's.
and more press to get the Brimestone analogue based on the Kh-39 for perhaps Sukhoi and UAV's.
Agreed. I think the acquisition is long overdue. They do not need the Ka-52K maritime version with all the trimmings for ship storage with foldable rotor blades either. A slightly modified regular Ka-52 with maybe the support for ejection over water would be enough.
The thing is the Russians likely cannot manufacture such electronics for millimeter wave sensors cheaply. Russian weapon systems are typically designed for mass usage in case of war. They would rather have the millimeter wave sensor on the aircraft and use cheaper missile guidance.
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some new speculation about PAK-DA and it should be close to official. payload and fuel load cannot be that much less since it may need launch sea drones, heavier hypersonic weopons and now even larger warheads are needed since advancement in fortifications and spreading the ammunition over larger area.
I watched the Tu-160M Programme. They didnot disclose the new cockpit and the internal bays but what was new information presented that the previous version of Tu-160 could reach Mach 1.7 with 25 tons payload. and the new one not only has more economical engines for increased range but also increased Thrust. the previous one is capable for 25 hours flights and this new one with more cockpit comfort will surpass that figures. It is turning into airborne command post with much longer loitering time than AWACS. They have started putting new engines since 2020 and obviously stated that this most advanced engine created.
I watched the Tu-160M Programme. They didnot disclose the new cockpit and the internal bays but what was new information presented that the previous version of Tu-160 could reach Mach 1.7 with 25 tons payload. and the new one not only has more economical engines for increased range but also increased Thrust. the previous one is capable for 25 hours flights and this new one with more cockpit comfort will surpass that figures. It is turning into airborne command post with much longer loitering time than AWACS. They have started putting new engines since 2020 and obviously stated that this most advanced engine created.
The Donbass militias, which are now either special forces detachments or newly formed Motorized Rifle Brigades of the RuAF, use captured ex-AFU T-64BV. The ones the Russians have in storage are probably untouched yet except for parts cannibalization.
These special forces units and brigades are typically employed with Group Center and Group East, often the spear tips of the advance, and these two army groups combined has shown the most progress. So even these captured tanks could be seeing plenty of action. Both sides use many common vehicles, BMP-1, BMP-2, BTR-80, 2S1, 2S3, MT-LB and T-72 in large quantities and extensively, so friendly fire issues are brushed about.
Most probably the issue of Russians taking tanks from graveyards have more to do with cannibalization, and centered more with the BTRs, BMPs, and the SPGs rather than the tanks. I have yet to see a single T-54/55 other than Slovakian M-55; the T-62s seen that were actually deployed are rare that it must have been a one off test modernization batch for trial deployment. My guess is that the battlefield attrition does not exceed that of the sum of newly built + modernized from mothballs + resurrected from damaged/destroyed + repurposed from captured/trophy tanks. Especially when they are advancing, the Russians have much better opportunities to recover downed tanks.
Russian ATGMs with their death spirals aren't exactly well positioned to hit slender surface vessels.
In an ironic twist of fate, it was very visible last summer that it's much easier for them to hit Bradley's rather than bmp-1s.
Easier because there was western assumption, that height won't matter for a precision weapon. But it matters, because someone saves money on a set of control surfaces.
Simple straightforward answer is your own FPVs.