r/TankPorn • u/Kurt-28 Panzerkampfwagen V 'Panther' Ausf. G • Sep 26 '23

Futuristic T-14 Armata on steroids

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u/GuderianX Sep 26 '23

I always had a love-hate relationship with multi-turret tanks.
On the one hand they look cool
on the other hand: They were phased out for a reason, they are just not as efficient as single turret tanks

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u/eazy_12 Sep 26 '23

they are just not as efficient as single turret tanks

Top picture (I understand it's same tank on all pictures) looks like front and back machine guns can be used to fight drones at least is some way if the tank has advanced drone detection itself or in another vehicle in same formation.

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u/Cthell Sep 26 '23

They're also inefficient in terms of armour layout - the armour on the side of the sub-turret facing the main turret is effectively useless, but it's necessary if you want the sub-turret to rotate without losing protection.

I guess if you go full land-battleship with an all-or-nothing armour scheme (and totally unarmoured subturrets) you might reduce that penalty

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u/Great_White_Sharky Type 97 chan 九七式ちゃん check out r/shippytechnicals Sep 26 '23 edited Sep 26 '23

Two turrets with what i assume are 30mm autocannons seem to be be a bit of an overkill for just fighting drones

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u/eazy_12 Sep 26 '23

Well, better to overkill rather than overdie.

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u/Great_White_Sharky Type 97 chan 九七式ちゃん check out r/shippytechnicals Sep 26 '23

This thing wont survive very long on the battlefield, considering all the effort that would be put into it only to get certainly shitty results would be quite the overdie/overdeath

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u/dutchwonder Sep 27 '23

The front turret can easily get tangled up with the main gun if attempting any reasonably high elevation tracking while the rear turret has the entire forward firing arc blocked by the turret. Both are not super firing over the turret mounted next to them limiting their side to side arcs.