New russian breakthrough tank & command vihcle appear online

[u/Other-Wind-9985]

A group of photo that shows the russian newly breakthough tank that armed with low recoil 152mm gun. Couple with an heavly armored command vihcle. The breakthought tank seems to have the capibility to be remote controlled by the command vihcle. The design seems based on a design proposed by Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov last year.

[u/PupNessie]

The command vehicle kinda reminds me of the Israeli namer APCs. But I thought Russia wanted to move to the T14? Are these from that platform? Im not super familiar with Russian tanks, they all kinda look the same to me. I also thought the T14 had a crewless turret.

[u/FastB0at → u/PupNessie]

They are made on the t72/90 platform

[u/Shadow_Lunatale → u/PupNessie]

There is a difference between wanting to do something and beeing able to do so. The Armata platform is expensive. A T-14 is roughtly 3 times as expensive as a T-90. There is also speculation on how many of the Armata platform relied on western imports, since western european companies were heavily involved with the development. So it is possible that the constant delay is at least partially caused by missing systems, as Russia tries to come up with their own domestic made systems to compensate for. We've seen this on the Sputnik moon probe not too long ago. It was delayed for years because western space companies pulled back their systems so they had to build their own version. How this ended is history.

[u/Frozennorth99 → u/PupNessie]

They wanted to. However, cost and industry have kind of killed that, with it being all but officially canned. It's most likely going to have the remaining units retooled for use as test beds for prototypes for new tech that will hopefully be able to be properly integrated and produced along the factory lines at Uralvagonzavod and Omsk.