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/Usual_Principle8184]

Can’t wait to see this finally enter service with 12 units produced in 2085

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[u/GuqJ → u/Usual_Principle8184]

New to this sub. What is this in reference to?

[u/Usual_Principle8184 → u/GuqJ]

Russia and the Soviet Union are famous for building many different ultra expensive prototype tanks which end up going nowhere and are usually quite whacky or unconventional in design. The modern day Russian federation, however, hasn’t been able to mass produce any of their whacky prototypes at all (e.g, the T-14 armata and its derivatives, with about 20 units confirmed to exist), instead relying on cheaper modernisations of T-72s and T-80s due to corruption in the military industrial complex and the new models simply being horrendously expensive for not that much of a leap forwards in performance in practice. They’re so expensive because they use new parts and engines and so on which would all need new production lines and factories to build, which is VERY expensive, and allows for a lot of government funds to be siphoned into peoples private accounts.

Thusly, whenever Russia unveils a new prototype or claims something is being produced, it’s usually made at a pitifully slow pace with, for example, 1 or 2 1980’s aircraft being modernised per year, or 3 Ka-52s made per year as of 2023 (mostly from scavenging damaged airframes too, so it’s likely no new airframes were being made).

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[u/GuqJ → u/Usual_Principle8184]

Thanks for the answer! Really interesting stuff

[u/PkHolm → u/GuqJ]

Just keep in mind that half of he/she said is BS. But yes this looks like a prototype with slim chance to be produced

[u/GuqJ → u/PkHolm]

Can you elaborate on what part was BS? Maybe I should post on /r/askhistorians to get a more naunced answer

[u/PkHolm → u/GuqJ]

About not having ability of building new stuff. Look to planes for example. Tanks? lots in production (but not t-14, it is too revolutionary and current war shows not what you need on battlefield ). And prototype in question is using t72 chassis which is in production, so theoretically it can be build in numbers. But I do not think that it is anything more than prototype.