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@@jasoncurtis99 No he is not, he is borderline pseudohistorian, videos full of mistakes and bias etc. For example chieftain showcased some of that, as a part of that RedEffect vs LazerPig debacle.
@@domtweed7323 From the T-14 Wikipedia page: "In March 2024, the CEO of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, finally confirmed that the tank has never been deployed in Ukraine for being too expensive and the T-90 being a more efficient option.[61]" So it looks doubtful if it will be mass produced if they can build more T-90s for half the price.
This really is like when you ask a friend where his girlfriend / boyfriend is and he says that she / he lives out of town? "Oh, the tank is coming, it's just in a different war, but it'll be here!"
The M1 Abrams has its top speed is set by a governor, it has more than enough power to literally go faster than the track's can handle without being flung off. I highly doubt the T-90 can actually go 80-90 kilomete4rs per hour for any extended time even over smooth ground, and probably more like 35-40 over open country.
"We are very lucky that they are so ducking stupid." This quote sums it up pretty well. Russia really does design comparably good military hardware, it's just that their mismanagement and corruption at every civilian and military level prevents them from every fielding that stuff in high enough numbers, training enough crews and sustaining that deployment over the life cycle of everything from tanks, aircraft to ships. If they even had the organizational efficiency and funding of even France, the EU would be cooked, but instead they will forever be trapped in a perpetual state of being too far away from being an Avengers level threat but barely powerful enough not to be a complete pushover.
No way to tell if its good or bad , we haven't seen it in action yet, all information about it more or less is gathered by independent media and "youtubers" so even the stats we have about it is suspect. And yes parade thing does demonstrate that the crews in 2015 not familiar with the vehicle or were poorly trained. Dont get me wrong it might be terrible , But it also might be very good , There is just no way to know till until we have actual statistics about it that are 100% verified or better yet actual combat performance.
@@ailinofaolin8897it’s been years and Russia still hasn’t used a single one. They either don’t exist or are still not usable. Knowing Russias ineptitude it’s a combination of both reasons. Go suck Ivan’s boot somewhere else bot
The turret armor is an interesting compromise. Seems like an IFV could accomplish a mission kill, even if it can't get a mobility kill. A tank with no functioning turret or weapons isn't a great tank.
1:43 this is the most Soviet test of armor I have ever seen. “How we test tank, comrade?” “Drive it off ramp really fast into water” “What will that test, comrade?” “How cool it looks flying into water for Stalin, dah!”
The Americans built a tank very much like this in the late 1960s. Unmanned turret and crew capsule. Gave up because it turned out you can't fight from a crew capsule. Which is probably the real issue with the 14.
"We are in day 1007 of my three week invasion of Ukraine, we have not deployed our amazing T-14 Armata tank because it would be unfair to the Ukrainians to face our awesomness - I remain the master strategist" Said Darth Putin as he looked in the mirror :)
Toward the end, you touched upon the likely reason Russia has not risked its dozen or so T-14s. Russia wants to export the T-14 and videos/images of wrecked T-14s will not help sales.
The final conclusion is at least partly what I had assumed. No assembly line, no access to parts and the examples we did see were one off machines. I rather doubt that we'll ever see one in action
Got to admit who works on Warfronts research has been doing amazing work. Normally channels like this not focused on specific armoured vehicles get things wrong. the Merkava video was decent. though you could of talked about how it was made and how crew survivability was paramount hence the engine in the front despite its downsides
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Everything Russia states mostly means 1000% increased number or completely opposite, Thus battlefield integration probably means everybody can see it and themselves, cannot. 1000mm penetration with "vacuum" shell probably means 100mm and unrealistic conditions like clear of sight, no wind and target is immobile and angled 90 degrees.
I also wanna add this: it doesn’t sound like it’d be very good in Ukraine anyway. You mentioned it lacks turret armor: that being the case, it stands to reason that those things might pop like zits if a spicy DJI hits said turret. It might not kill the crew, but a tank is pretty useless on an active battlefield with a turret that’s been soup-canned
It's been known for years that the T14 armata only had a few prototypes made as it is riddle with problems starting with it's engine. It has been mostly abandoned for a modernized T90. So there are no T14 armata in Ukraine cuz the model has never been battle ready. Almost all the fancy stuff you mention doesn't work.
If there are only a small number of T-14s built at the start of the conflict, it makes sense for them not to be fielded - as there wouldn't be enough to equip a formation and there would likely be very limited spare parts for repair and maintenance. Likewise, the reason to not start building more after conflict started is down to logistics. The workforce experience / knowledge base and tooling for older designs would probably be more readily available; and thus easier and quicker to set up and expand. A similar situation arose in the UK during WWI, where they were in the process of replacing the old Webley revolver with a semi-automatic but abandoned that idea and retained the revolver since that was the one that they could manufacture at scale quickly.
The problem it’s that it’s believed that all of the T-14s produced are different variations over the years as they tried to fix the problems. None of them are in a finalized state. None are believed to be serialized, meaning in production status. Even if they wanted to, putting any of them in the field against a modern army would result in problems. In Syria, they had a small number appearing here and there basically out of range of the rebels who had no means to attack them. Russia requires large numbers of sales of their weapons systems to other states to defray the R&D and manufacturing costs. If their latest systems, such as the SU-57 and the T-14 are lost in the war, other countries will be reluctant to purchase them, making them too expensive for Russia to buy for themselves. They’ve already seen that happen Tom sales of their latest helicopter. As they were shot down in Ukraine, China, India, Turkey and others cancelled their orders.
They also have their super stealth fighter, the SU-57, that's apparently the best in the world. That fighter is also not to be seen anywhere in Ukraine. Wonder why.... :-D
Isn't that what super stealthy mean, the ability to be invisible both to electronic detection or naked eyeball, that might be the reason it hasn't been seen. The West didn't see Oreshnik coming either, I wonder why.
As someone who was lucky enough to crew on not one, but two distinctly different MBT"s, that three man in the hull idea would be a deal breaker. You can't have enough eye's on top of a tank.
For example the Mig 25 Foxbat, Edit: Though this is a bad example as that was the West Hitting the panic button as they thought the Soviets had been stealing FX Designs. What drove fear of the foxbat was fear or espionage.
@@spartan2748 you realize that the USSR did not create propaganda about the MiG-25. It was the CiA specialists who assumed that it was a Soviet superfighter. The Russians designed it from the very beginning as an interceptor, and in this role it performed rather well.
@@spartan2748 It's like someone showed you a hammer. You immediately assumed that it was used to screw in light bulbs and that he must be great at it. In the corner, you designed an even better machine for screwing in light bulbs. And at the end you were laughing that the hammer couldn't handle light bulbs. As if of course it couldn't handle light bulbs, it was designed to drive nails, of course it wasn't the hammer's fault, you were an idiot who thought that the purpose of a hammer was to screw in light bulbs.
I imagine the best design for a modern tank would be a hybrid. With big honking electric motors providing all the torque you could ever need, and blistering speed. Powered by something like twin 800HP redundant diesel engines, and of course a big bank of batteries. Ideally you'd design it, so that running just off the batteries, it'd have enough power to retreat from the frontline to somewhere safe for making repairs, and with only a single engine, it would be able to just about keep the batteries charged, unless you were literally running the thing all out. It could run nearly silent, if you needed to creep through an urban environment, and could operate in fairly deep water without needing a snorkel. At least that's the kind of thing I'd suggest if I were designing such a vehicle.
IIRC, this was tested by the US, and they came to a stop when they realised that batteries explode quite easily when shot, and we're incredibly expensive to get large batteries.
@@therealAxiss I was thinking about the danger of lithium batteries, but I kinda figured that it wouldn't make much difference when the tank is already full of explosive shells, and covered in explosive armour. LiFePO4 would perhaps be an option however, they're significantly safer than Li-ion.
They might not have as much capability as they claim, but a lot of Ukrainian’s have died as a result of their invasion, so cut the propaganda and view them as the threat that they are.
@@herbieoliver2682well the only outcome to this is inevitable it’s just a matter of time imo social media really needs to take a step back all I see now is channels like this making money off what’s going off, Fuelling both sides If Ukraine actually do get the upper hand, PUTIN (not Russia as a whole) will make sure he’s safe and unleash something that will put us all in the dark ages or try yes the west will have catastrophic destruction and devastation but what happens to us will be the 10 fold to Russia All because the one man wants to be the school yard top dog 1939/1945 springs to mind
@@herbieoliver2682They have died at a multiplicative rate faster than that of Ukrainian forces and have expended billions more than NATO. They are a threat in the same way that the USSR was a threat to Finland. Edit: Not only was the threat minimal, but the fallout from Russia being seen so poorly convinced Hitler to invade and cost him the entire war. 😊
18:36 you said Russia can’t produce high tech electronics….. but we know Russia is #1 in the world in terms of EW anti air defense and their missiles are very accurate. All these things require what ? You guessed it high tech electronics
14:46 not this. it is NOT based on the Porsche engine. the only common things they share is the layout. it's likey saying a modern V4 engine is based on a 100 year old engine because both are V4. people should stop citing lazerpig and his BR. also the Porsche engine was NOT designed for the Maus, it was designed for a Tiger
So, there *is* an engine with an X configuration. I've heard things about its reliability that put it down there with the BRM H-16. I'll bet the construction is similar, except with cranks on left and right instead of up and down. Also, a 34.6 liter X-12 sounds like exactly 3/4 of a 46 liter X-16. What I'm saying is they probably just lopped a bit off and made new cranks.
14:55 "(the Maus) is cracking fun to play with on War Thunder" I'm now convinced you've never touched this game. Driving the Maus like driving a barn powered by a 3 cylinder engine, and the armor is meaningless against 80% of the rounds people use at that battle rating. Not to mention you're so huge, a blind bomber in low earth orbit stands a fair chance of hitting you directly
How good is a crewless turret seems like a Enemy IFV would find it relatively simple to shoot out all those lovely sensors leaving it blind. Feel free to tell me if im being dense
I think the Russians are just using up all their old tanks that would need to be decommissioned soon anyway, and saving their best stuff for defence or a later engagement, probably the same reason we haven't seen much from the Spetsnatz team, and just a load of new recruits and mercenaries.
Russian wonder weapons like the T-14 armata and the SU-57 Felon are just that, they have impressive specs on paper, too few units have been built and those few will never see combat to discover and fix the issues that will definitely arise. They are like concept cars.
Did you remember about armata because the game Broken Arrow was released? What other reason is there to talk about a tank that hasn’t been seen for 10 years?
My guess is why T14 is not seen is the cost because they're are no factory that can make those tanks and in order to make those buildings it would out weight current ones so why switch when you have one making another older tank already plus the resources diversion would be painstakingly high. Unless it becomes a war time economy. O.O
Western military always overplays the capabilities of Soviet (now Russian), equipment, in order to justify ever higher defense budgets. I remember the scary warnings about the MiG 25 and the T-62, way back when. Both heavily over-hyped, and later shown to be far less capable than predicted by "reliable sources". The more things change...
Russians usually exaggerate their gear's performance. Americans usually downplay their performance. Both apply their own logic to intelligence they gather on the other.
The answer is simple, why would you use your best equipment that is slow to reproduce, when your current equipment is easily massed produced and is out performing what is already on the field. You don't stop wartime production, for advanced equipment that takes longer yo produce. This is the same problem with all the arm chair generals, and even those in the comments will argue. Those of us who have actually been in a war know if your equipment is good enough but you can keep producing more of it you keep going you way for a lax in combat operation yo introduce in limits new equipment to units in training. The US did this throughout iraq in Afghanistan, we kept the m16 for the majority of 15 years even though we produced plenty of m4 which is better for city fighting. Up armored Humvees and even unarmored were the work horse of iraq and Afghanistan for 10 years even though other armored vehicles were already in service, it wasn't until a major lax in combat operation did new units get the equipment. The marine entered the IAR into service but deploying units still got the m249 why, still more parts and more produced to keep deployment going. Logistics is ehat wins wars and why russia is going to win this war. Russia produces all its equipment and has a streamlined production of T90ms for the current war. The Ukrainians have a mix bag of equipment no central training that works for all. An abrams, challenge and leopard all need different mechanics. Secondly you also font eant to risk losing your newest equipment to give yhe west who are actively involved in this war. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to answer this question.
When Russia makes tanks , it creates massive, streamlined assembly lines to make 1000s of them. The commitment is only made when the design is considered good enough and the economics/geopolitics allow for the production to be smooth.
And yet if you watch some of these low effort, ai written, machine narrated channels ranking world militaries they compare to 14 to Abrams, Leopards, etc as if they would ever face off
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50 million dollar tank meet 500 dollar drone. The drone might not win often but all it needs is to win once the tank has to win every time
And they can launch like 40 of those drones at one tank in an hour
@@ApexATL - ...and fail with 75% of those drone swarms yet still come out ahead.
And still the ukranian governement keeps asking for tanks in order to liberate russian occupied areas of the country
@@arthurwintersight7868With a fail rate of 99% the drones still win. $50 000 < $50 000 000
More like 50 million rubels
Thanks to RedEffect and LazerPig, people now knows more about the engine of this obscure tank than their toaster.
except there was many flaws in his arguments I believe chieftain made a great video about it, an actual retired tank commander/historian
LazerPig is great. Top notch
Please don’t mention RedEffect. He spews Russian propaganda. Let him fade into obscurity.
@@jasoncurtis99 No he is not, he is borderline pseudohistorian, videos full of mistakes and bias etc. For example chieftain showcased some of that, as a part of that RedEffect vs LazerPig debacle.
The first thing I thought of when he mentioned the engine being bad was the big "Nuh Uh" war from Red Effect and ConeOfArc
It's called T-14 because they only have 14
Hahahahaha. That got me good, man.
Are you a turtle?
And because it's "T"errible.
Yeah, the factories are busy repairing T55s and T64s. But once they're done with those they'll probably manufacture some T14s on masse.
But only one working😂
@@domtweed7323 From the T-14 Wikipedia page:
"In March 2024, the CEO of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, finally confirmed that the tank has never been deployed in Ukraine for being too expensive and the T-90 being a more efficient option.[61]"
So it looks doubtful if it will be mass produced if they can build more T-90s for half the price.
Best Tank in the world, 100% stealth, no one has ever seen one in battle
This really is like when you ask a friend where his girlfriend / boyfriend is and he says that she / he lives out of town? "Oh, the tank is coming, it's just in a different war, but it'll be here!"
She goes to another school bro
She lives out of state bro
She lives in Canada and we facetime every night!
The M1 Abrams has its top speed is set by a governor, it has more than enough power to literally go faster than the track's can handle without being flung off.
I highly doubt the T-90 can actually go 80-90 kilomete4rs per hour for any extended time even over smooth ground, and probably more like 35-40 over open country.
"We are very lucky that they are so ducking stupid."
This quote sums it up pretty well. Russia really does design comparably good military hardware, it's just that their mismanagement and corruption at every civilian and military level prevents them from every fielding that stuff in high enough numbers, training enough crews and sustaining that deployment over the life cycle of everything from tanks, aircraft to ships. If they even had the organizational efficiency and funding of even France, the EU would be cooked, but instead they will forever be trapped in a perpetual state of being too far away from being an Avengers level threat but barely powerful enough not to be a complete pushover.
Laserpig did a video about this, it is a lot of fun.
And RedEffect.
@@anotherbacklog RedEffect sucks
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@ Yeah….the challenger 2 isn’t exactly having a great time in Ukraine either
@@anotherbacklog he also quotes Russia Today
The Armata is a joke. It is a fairy tale that broke down last time it was on parade. Oh, the brake locked up? Trash.
Still coping over that one video from years ago you do know that tank actually drove off by itself so how did it break down?
I heard that it was operator error. The driver accidentally put it in park.
No way to tell if its good or bad , we haven't seen it in action yet, all information about it more or less is gathered by independent media and "youtubers" so even the stats we have about it is suspect. And yes parade thing does demonstrate that the crews in 2015 not familiar with the vehicle or were poorly trained. Dont get me wrong it might be terrible , But it also might be very good , There is just no way to know till until we have actual statistics about it that are 100% verified or better yet actual combat performance.
@@ailinofaolin8897it’s been years and Russia still hasn’t used a single one. They either don’t exist or are still not usable. Knowing Russias ineptitude it’s a combination of both reasons. Go suck Ivan’s boot somewhere else bot
@@ailinofaolin8897bud it’s a failure deal with it.
The turret armor is an interesting compromise. Seems like an IFV could accomplish a mission kill, even if it can't get a mobility kill. A tank with no functioning turret or weapons isn't a great tank.
This went exactly as expected. Orcs being orcs.
Deployment: At a parade, where it failed!
I mean, anything is possible when it is complete fantasy! Its called Imagination! *spong bob meme*
Oh you cited Porshe at all...
I'd keep a sturdy umbrella handy.
As I understand it, if they send in the T-14 and it doesn't turn out to a be superstar.. there go all their military contracts.
1:43 this is the most Soviet test of armor I have ever seen.
“How we test tank, comrade?”
“Drive it off ramp really fast into water”
“What will that test, comrade?”
“How cool it looks flying into water for Stalin, dah!”
Hilarious that the engine based on captured WWII German technology.
Russia really likes its 80 year old wonder technology.
If you want to talk about Russian wunderwaffe, you should make a fantasy theme channel.
The Americans built a tank very much like this in the late 1960s. Unmanned turret and crew capsule. Gave up because it turned out you can't fight from a crew capsule. Which is probably the real issue with the 14.
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Best one of these responses I've seen yet.
"We are in day 1007 of my three week invasion of Ukraine, we have not deployed our amazing T-14 Armata tank because it would be unfair to the Ukrainians to face our awesomness - I remain the master strategist" Said Darth Putin as he looked in the mirror :)
What the fcvk are you rabbiting about.
Toward the end, you touched upon the likely reason Russia has not risked its dozen or so T-14s. Russia wants to export the T-14 and videos/images of wrecked T-14s will not help sales.
The final conclusion is at least partly what I had assumed. No assembly line, no access to parts and the examples we did see were one off machines. I rather doubt that we'll ever see one in action
Needs some re designing too.
Got to admit who works on Warfronts research has been doing amazing work. Normally channels like this not focused on specific armoured vehicles get things wrong. the Merkava video was decent. though you could of talked about how it was made and how crew survivability was paramount hence the engine in the front despite its downsides
I believe he did talk about that in that video..
But I can't say I remember it 100%.
Sorry in advance if I'm wrong
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If you want to dress up your truck to look like a T-14, don’t be afraid to use cardboard, as most of the T-14s we’ve seen are likely T-72s with cardboard body kits
Everything Russia states mostly means 1000% increased number or completely opposite, Thus battlefield integration probably means everybody can see it and themselves, cannot. 1000mm penetration with "vacuum" shell probably means 100mm and unrealistic conditions like clear of sight, no wind and target is immobile and angled 90 degrees.
doesnt it also have an 80 year old engine and touchscreen controlls that just arent going to work. it also broke down the first time we ever saw it
I also wanna add this: it doesn’t sound like it’d be very good in Ukraine anyway. You mentioned it lacks turret armor: that being the case, it stands to reason that those things might pop like zits if a spicy DJI hits said turret. It might not kill the crew, but a tank is pretty useless on an active battlefield with a turret that’s been soup-canned
It's been known for years that the T14 armata only had a few prototypes made as it is riddle with problems starting with it's engine. It has been mostly abandoned for a modernized T90. So there are no T14 armata in Ukraine cuz the model has never been battle ready. Almost all the fancy stuff you mention doesn't work.
Seems to me russia is like Germany in the later days of WW2 depending on wunderwaffen.
If there are only a small number of T-14s built at the start of the conflict, it makes sense for them not to be fielded - as there wouldn't be enough to equip a formation and there would likely be very limited spare parts for repair and maintenance. Likewise, the reason to not start building more after conflict started is down to logistics. The workforce experience / knowledge base and tooling for older designs would probably be more readily available; and thus easier and quicker to set up and expand. A similar situation arose in the UK during WWI, where they were in the process of replacing the old Webley revolver with a semi-automatic but abandoned that idea and retained the revolver since that was the one that they could manufacture at scale quickly.
The problem it’s that it’s believed that all of the T-14s produced are different variations over the years as they tried to fix the problems. None of them are in a finalized state. None are believed to be serialized, meaning in production status. Even if they wanted to, putting any of them in the field against a modern army would result in problems. In Syria, they had a small number appearing here and there basically out of range of the rebels who had no means to attack them. Russia requires large numbers of sales of their weapons systems to other states to defray the R&D and manufacturing costs. If their latest systems, such as the SU-57 and the T-14 are lost in the war, other countries will be reluctant to purchase them, making them too expensive for Russia to buy for themselves. They’ve already seen that happen Tom sales of their latest helicopter. As they were shot down in Ukraine, China, India, Turkey and others cancelled their orders.
Hey Simon thanks for making history and information fun again!
Basically, it's the su57 of the army.
T14's engine runs on unicorn farts
They also have their super stealth fighter, the SU-57, that's apparently the best in the world. That fighter is also not to be seen anywhere in Ukraine. Wonder why.... :-D
its just that stealthy, even the march one eye ball cant see it
@@olivernrgaard3268so stealthy that not even the Russians have seen it.
It’s reported to have been spotted in the Ukraine war…..after being damaged by HIMARS on the ground!
Isn't that what super stealthy mean, the ability to be invisible both to electronic detection or naked eyeball, that might be the reason it hasn't been seen. The West didn't see Oreshnik coming either, I wonder why.
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Last time I was this early Russia we still the strongest army in Russia
It still is?
As someone who was lucky enough to crew on not one, but two distinctly different MBT"s, that three man in the hull idea would be a deal breaker. You can't have enough eye's on top of a tank.
The "T" in "T-14" stands for "Terrible", the "14" in "T-14" stands for How many were Produced
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The engine in the T-14 armata is a modified Tiger tank's engine from ww2.
I think it was derivative of the X engine from the King Tiger specifically no less...the one after the Panther that broke down...a lot.
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@@axmat3436wanna try typing that again?
That's just a straight up lie that LazerPig fans spread around.
that isnt true at all lol
Here come the Ivan Bots to defend Russian tanks. Even though most of Russias tanks are either destroyed or Ukrainian now.
When something sounds way too good to be true it usually is, especially when it comes to Russian claims.
For example the Mig 25 Foxbat,
Edit: Though this is a bad example as that was the West Hitting the panic button as they thought the Soviets had been stealing FX Designs. What drove fear of the foxbat was fear or espionage.
@@spartan2748 you realize that the USSR did not create propaganda about the MiG-25. It was the CiA specialists who assumed that it was a Soviet superfighter. The Russians designed it from the very beginning as an interceptor, and in this role it performed rather well.
@tonieistotne9471 I know. You know I admit this was a bad example.
@@spartan2748 It's like someone showed you a hammer. You immediately assumed that it was used to screw in light bulbs and that he must be great at it. In the corner, you designed an even better machine for screwing in light bulbs. And at the end you were laughing that the hammer couldn't handle light bulbs. As if of course it couldn't handle light bulbs, it was designed to drive nails, of course it wasn't the hammer's fault, you were an idiot who thought that the purpose of a hammer was to screw in light bulbs.
@@spartan2748 ok
I didn't notice the answer.
It's nice that you admit it, many people don't do it, they just keep denying it. have a nice day
it has mastered invisibility clearly
Wunderwaffe didn't work the first time, it won't work now.
We can hear Simon again. Audio man got a telling off didn’t he 😂
I imagine the best design for a modern tank would be a hybrid. With big honking electric motors providing all the torque you could ever need, and blistering speed. Powered by something like twin 800HP redundant diesel engines, and of course a big bank of batteries. Ideally you'd design it, so that running just off the batteries, it'd have enough power to retreat from the frontline to somewhere safe for making repairs, and with only a single engine, it would be able to just about keep the batteries charged, unless you were literally running the thing all out. It could run nearly silent, if you needed to creep through an urban environment, and could operate in fairly deep water without needing a snorkel. At least that's the kind of thing I'd suggest if I were designing such a vehicle.
IIRC, this was tested by the US, and they came to a stop when they realised that batteries explode quite easily when shot, and we're incredibly expensive to get large batteries.
@@therealAxiss I was thinking about the danger of lithium batteries, but I kinda figured that it wouldn't make much difference when the tank is already full of explosive shells, and covered in explosive armour. LiFePO4 would perhaps be an option however, they're significantly safer than Li-ion.
The moment any military puts the word, "modular" into a system, all you need to know is how loud to laugh.
0:15 no, not if this isn’t the true war and only a warm up and a test…
Ikr this feels like the Spanish civil war or American civil war. Pregaming for the new era of warfare.
Russia, The "Paper Bear". Growls but doesn't bite.
Dumb
They might not have as much capability as they claim, but a lot of Ukrainian’s have died as a result of their invasion, so cut the propaganda and view them as the threat that they are.
@@herbieoliver2682well the only outcome to this is inevitable it’s just a matter of time
imo social media really needs to take a step back
all I see now is channels like this making money off what’s going off,
Fuelling both sides
If Ukraine actually do get the upper hand, PUTIN (not Russia as a whole) will make sure he’s safe and unleash something that will put us all in the dark ages or try
yes the west will have catastrophic destruction and devastation
but what happens to us will be the 10 fold to Russia
All because the one man wants to be the school yard top dog
1939/1945 springs to mind
@@herbieoliver2682They have died at a multiplicative rate faster than that of Ukrainian forces and have expended billions more than NATO. They are a threat in the same way that the USSR was a threat to Finland.
Edit: Not only was the threat minimal, but the fallout from Russia being seen so poorly convinced Hitler to invade and cost him the entire war. 😊
It bites. Just look at Ukraine. How many died, how many are dying.
It's in the same warehouse as their 5,500 nukes and hypersonic missiles.
18:36 you said Russia can’t produce high tech electronics….. but we know Russia is #1 in the world in terms of EW anti air defense and their missiles are very accurate. All these things require what ? You guessed it high tech electronics
Malachite? Did they slap copper plates on to the thing? Odd name indeed :D
14:46 not this. it is NOT based on the Porsche engine. the only common things they share is the layout. it's likey saying a modern V4 engine is based on a 100 year old engine because both are V4.
people should stop citing lazerpig and his BR.
also the Porsche engine was NOT designed for the Maus, it was designed for a Tiger
So, there *is* an engine with an X configuration. I've heard things about its reliability that put it down there with the BRM H-16. I'll bet the construction is similar, except with cranks on left and right instead of up and down. Also, a 34.6 liter X-12 sounds like exactly 3/4 of a 46 liter X-16. What I'm saying is they probably just lopped a bit off and made new cranks.
I love tanks and battle armor obviously so this is great to see on 1 of my favorite channels
This tank, if deployed, would be the king of the turret toss
14:55
"(the Maus) is cracking fun to play with on War Thunder"
I'm now convinced you've never touched this game. Driving the Maus like driving a barn powered by a 3 cylinder engine, and the armor is meaningless against 80% of the rounds people use at that battle rating. Not to mention you're so huge, a blind bomber in low earth orbit stands a fair chance of hitting you directly
Last time I was this early Russia thought it could afford to buy its new wonder weapon lol
props to XXXXXXXXX. bro scripted one banger of a video
It’s probably more real than the majority of your Mega Projects lately.
Thanks for the video Simon and basement team, have you thought of doing a video on where is the Sukhoi Su-57 Felon?
@LazerPig is going to want to see this
Did you see his faulty video debunked? He is so full of shit, its crazy that he has such a following.
How good is a crewless turret seems like a Enemy IFV would find it relatively simple to shoot out all those lovely sensors leaving it blind. Feel free to tell me if im being dense
Why did Porsche develop an X engine for the panzer 8 when the main advantage of an X engine is space, and that tank was ginormous anyhow?
Sun Tzu warned us not to underestimate the enemy, 1500 years later the Russians shown us not to overestimate them either.
1:44....What drugs was the driver on?😮😮😂😂
I think the Russians are just using up all their old tanks that would need to be decommissioned soon anyway, and saving their best stuff for defence or a later engagement, probably the same reason we haven't seen much from the Spetsnatz team, and just a load of new recruits and mercenaries.
Russian wonder weapons like the T-14 armata and the SU-57 Felon are just that, they have impressive specs on paper, too few units have been built and those few will never see combat to discover and fix the issues that will definitely arise. They are like concept cars.
The engine is as heavy as the Abrams' turbine and produces less torque and power.
I have more hours in war thunder than I’d like to admit and here I come to watch warp graphics and we have a war thunder play for free ad
Too expensive, at the moment
Way cheaper to refurbish tanks from storage. They still have another 4000 of those to go through, first
The audio is very harsh. Listening through headphones is barely tolerable.
The Russians are trying to determine which type of brick is best for armor.
Well they have less of them than we gave M1A1 Abrams to Ukraine soooo...
They have less than 30 of them.
They have 120 T-14 tanks 100 production models 20 pre production.
@@ailinofaolin8897 in real terms they've got 10 parade models and 110 cardboard replicas.
URALVAGONZAVOD is an abbreviation of Ural Wagon Factory
lazerpig made a really good video on this lmao
Did you remember about armata because the game Broken Arrow was released? What other reason is there to talk about a tank that hasn’t been seen for 10 years?
this shows the genius of Russia. They designed a tank so stealthy the world still hasn´t seen it
My guess is why T14 is not seen is the cost because they're are no factory that can make those tanks and in order to make those buildings it would out weight current ones so why switch when you have one making another older tank already plus the resources diversion would be painstakingly high. Unless it becomes a war time economy. O.O
Western military always overplays the capabilities of Soviet (now Russian), equipment, in order to justify ever higher defense budgets. I remember the scary warnings about the MiG 25 and the T-62, way back when. Both heavily over-hyped, and later shown to be far less capable than predicted by "reliable sources". The more things change...
Russians usually exaggerate their gear's performance. Americans usually downplay their performance. Both apply their own logic to intelligence they gather on the other.
I am 10 minutes into this "Where is Russia's supposed super tank" video, but we are still talking about what is it and not about where is it.
20:39 Simon got someone new in his basement "XXXXXXXXX"
It’s [REDACTED] and they are [REDACTED]
No, its not. Neither is the Su-57. Hell, for all we know the Sarmat is also fake.
"X engine"... that obviously means that Elon developed it, right? 😂
Maybe the real T-14 was the youtuber drama we made along the way.
The answer is simple, why would you use your best equipment that is slow to reproduce, when your current equipment is easily massed produced and is out performing what is already on the field. You don't stop wartime production, for advanced equipment that takes longer yo produce.
This is the same problem with all the arm chair generals, and even those in the comments will argue. Those of us who have actually been in a war know if your equipment is good enough but you can keep producing more of it you keep going you way for a lax in combat operation yo introduce in limits new equipment to units in training. The US did this throughout iraq in Afghanistan, we kept the m16 for the majority of 15 years even though we produced plenty of m4 which is better for city fighting.
Up armored Humvees and even unarmored were the work horse of iraq and Afghanistan for 10 years even though other armored vehicles were already in service, it wasn't until a major lax in combat operation did new units get the equipment. The marine entered the IAR into service but deploying units still got the m249 why, still more parts and more produced to keep deployment going. Logistics is ehat wins wars and why russia is going to win this war. Russia produces all its equipment and has a streamlined production of T90ms for the current war. The Ukrainians have a mix bag of equipment no central training that works for all. An abrams, challenge and leopard all need different mechanics. Secondly you also font eant to risk losing your newest equipment to give yhe west who are actively involved in this war. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to answer this question.
In the mechanic shop getting refitted for next years parade float
It’s the same with the stealth fighter they have 3 exist one for showing off the other is broke down and the last one is for spare parts lmao
$29.99 drone and some C4 > T-14 Armata
Useless, It has no way of making Tea.
There is a military concept called “reserve”…maybe he sees something bigger coming….
I don't think Russia could afford to produce this thing in sufficient numbers even if it was as good as they claim(which is almost certainly isn't).
When Russia makes tanks , it creates massive, streamlined assembly lines to make 1000s of them.
The commitment is only made when the design is considered good enough and the economics/geopolitics allow for the production to be smooth.
In war, why would you want to use and risk your latest technology while your men have very little to no training on how to use it properly.
This war has been going on since 2022, and the T-14 was deployed in 2014. How long does it take to train a Russian?
Simon ffs, where are you getting your music from, give us a link please xD
What, you mean the X-engine isn't one of 'Elon's designs'?
huge hypothesis: could it be, that the russians just find out, which crap T14 is, after 3 years of ucraine?
Your videos are always so heartfelt and profound! Thank you for your creativity and your ability to touch the hearts of your viewers!😀❤️🥂
And yet if you watch some of these low effort, ai written, machine narrated channels ranking world militaries they compare to 14 to Abrams, Leopards, etc as if they would ever face off