Russia's Heaviest APC | BTR-T Modern Russian T-55 Based APC
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- There were lots of lessons to be learned from the first Russian experience in Grozny (1994-1996). Among these were the importance of training ground troops in the use and maintenance of existing and new equipment, the importance of gathering intelligence that can provide correct estimations of the enemy’s capabilities, the importance of assault planning and coordination as well as plan flexibility, and the poor performance of Cold War era Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) against modern anti-tank weapons. Often in this conflict, Russian APCs, such as the BTR-70, and even Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), such as the BMP-2, found their protection hopelessly outmatched by weapons such as RPG-7s and Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs) used by their Chechen adversaries.
The latter lesson did not go unnoticed by the Russian high command either. As a result, the need for increased protection for APCs became more urgent. In response, the Design Bureau of Transport Engineering under the direction of the chief designer of the project, D. Ageev, developed and produced (in conjunction with the State Production Association “Transport Engineering Plant”) a prototype of a heavy armored personnel carrier (BTR-T) based on the T-55 tank chassis, of which there was an abundance in reserves.
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2 things are infinite: the universe and the usage of T-54/55, and I'm not sure about the Universe🤔
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@@TanksEncyclopediaYT I'm sure that 50/60 years from now a T-54 will still be fighting somewhere in the world in a war that it didn't deserve😔, the day the last T-54 will fight will be the day all wars have ended😊
T55,
It kills, it carries, it takes the kids to school, it mans the barbecue, it just does everything
@@alessiobubbles5345 I mean there is WELL over 100 thousand t54’s so I doubt honestly they ever will stop being used for at least 100 years
@@csme07 100 years is only 30 years away.
I think you mean 200 years!
the 3 things without limits:
3. The Universe
2. The uses for baking soda
1.The uses for the T-54/55
Aaaaand human stupidity.
Actually, soda was used to clean T-55s ;P
another one: use of the MiG-21
the fishbed is as eternal as its land-based counterpart
My experiences, they make great distance siege guns. Even ack ack guns can be placed on a flatbed to target a village.
The uses for MT-LB.
The T55 is also a good family tank as well, low maintenance, doesn't shed and is great with kids.
You know kids they love T 55's
Even my son does
It's been great having it in the house. They're so social too! Ever since adopting one, our autstic son has had an absolute glow up.
@@rodrigomateus5125 especially the flamethrower version KIDS LOVE TANK FLAMETHROWERS.
I wish my parents allowed us to get a t-55 when I was a kid. All my friends had them
Wow, fully voiced and visualized! Congrats to my friend Sheer! You did great buddy.
this tank is really universal. t/54/55 is an amazing tank conversion
This video reminds me of when the US Army tried to recycle the chassis of the M48 tank to create a SHORAD ADA vehicle to replace the M163 Vulcan. The result was called the Sergeant York, a track that was spectacularly mediocre at best, ranking even wòrse than the M60A2 Starship
Now there’s a contradiction in terms, the Great War well people let me tell you a story about my great uncle Alec. Alec was a rebellious young man at the age of 16 in Aberdeen Scotland and he lied about his age so he could go off to fight the glorious fight but he told me that the recruiters must’ve known he wasn’t old enough and so he’s ended up being a stretcher bearer. He told me about his capture while taking back wounded squaddies to friendly lines and spent four years as a P O W some was in a camp but a few years was as a farm labourer not far from the camp. The conditions were a bit better than being in the camp. He asked me before he went on with his experience at war and me being the gobshite that I was/ and still am to a point, I said yup and he went on to tell me in graphic detail about the smell of burnt flesh, picking up bits and pieces of bodies but the soon stopped that and resorted to trying to find as much dog tags as they could so at least the bereaved family members could at least have a memorial service for their lost loved ones. I won’t apologise for my words and if anyone wants to hear more then leave a message and I’ll give it serious consideration and if you don’t then it’s no great loss. One of the reasons for me speaking about this is quite simple, I won’t speak about other countries and how they’re dealing the most recent conflicts but rather to bring to light that the British governments past and present are making the same mistakes that the government during ww1 and there’s been no change apart one very sad thing and is the capability to kill one another more gruesomely. Cmon government pull your fingers out and help the warriors who’ve been left out in the cold
I'd say it inspired the build of the BMPT- Terminator, which is also based on the T-72
No, the BMPT goes back to the early 80s with the objects 781 and 782. The former a modified T-72 hull with a couple of autocannons and the latter a slightly more modified T-72 hull with a turret relatively similar to the one on the BMP-3.
Great research, loose the filler footage though as you have plenty of great footage of the t55 btrt which could be left on the screen for longer. Great content all the same though :)
I agree - the wheeled BTR footage is most confusing.
It annoyed the hell out of me and makes me not press 'like' for this video
The problem wasn't so much the existing APCs, it was the lack of troop training. Most troops were young post-USSR conscripts.
Yeah, they blamed a lot of the vehicles used in Chechnya when the actual way that the vehicles were used is the one that should get the blame for...
Their country collapsed and turned in to such chaos that nothing worked as it should. At the time Russia was as close to a fail state as you can get.
I watched the interview with General in charge of taking the Grozny and the words that stuck with me were: "I commanded a division in Soviet Union times, if i had my division i would have taken the city within 48 hours with minimal casualties and destruction."
He left the army soon after and refused to accept the medal for operation in Grozny, he was assassinated in 1998 by Russian leadership.
@@uegvdczuVF what was his name?
Lev Rohlin
@@graurvadim3759 *Adds name to list of people who are in charge in alternate history setting*
U guys no longer do news on games? Few new vehicles made in WT last week or so but the patch already dropped anyway.
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Soviet troops fighting Soviet troops, what a disaster it became.
That was caused by overspending into militar stuff while there were no comsumers to buy it (or to honor their payment).
Usa at least can send a carrier to get their money back or impose sanctions, russia was screwed up like when egypt decide to not pay in the last century.
The konkurs Rocket Luncher should have More protection on the tank
T-54/55 is the tank version of AK-47
they could be made into an unmanned ground vehicle.....
Your topic is about BTR-T but most of your videos show a BTR- 70. Apples and oranges.
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Exacly my thoughts. Thrilled on the subject, disappointing video.
In russia they use a T-55 hull with an jet engine to Clean Snow in the Streets
Actually it's used to clean land mines
Tbh I would look at equiping entire Airborne and Air Assault Brigades with this system not others.
Recycling T55s? We all know they are ground up and turned in Wolf 762x39!
All hail wolf ammunition
Why did you keep showing a wheeled apc throughout much of the video?
7:50
Woah! Look at that barrel move!
11:41 what are they doing to the barrel?
boresighting
I'll never understand this.... I recently saw a similar thing that ukraine did with some of their t72s, or maybe they were t62s, (i don't quite remember)
But it just doesn't seem like a good tradeoff.... You sacrifice the greatest thing about those old tanks (the turreted gun) in order to get 4 more infantrymen on the battlefield.... It seems to me like they'd make a better infantry support vehicle if they were just left alone....
To reiterate, if I went into battle with 13 dudes and a sherman tank, I (personally) would just prefer that the sherman be a complete sherman, as opposed having no main gun, and carrying 4 more dudes... Maybe that's just me
Context is critical. This was created in response to the problem of infantry fire support in close urban terrain such as the Russians ran into in Grozny.
They needed a smaller than usual cannon to elevate fire at rooftops and buildings at close ranges.
They needed better protection for their supporting infantry as AT threats were common and regular apc were too lightly armoured, and many would get their infantry killed in a metal coffin before they could get out.
These roles were easy enough to include in a single design.
@@josephk.4200 thanks for the input!!!
I get what you’re saying, and in your Sherman example you might be right. I think on a larger scale the problem is logistics. You would need a more trained crew with the turret, plus the associated ammunition and and spare parts. Ammunition storage for the main gun also takes up a lot of interior space. Additionally the turret is very heavy, leading to increased fuel consumption and lower speeds, which could be a concern of you want older repurposed design to keep up with faster newer vehicles.
Frankly these seems to be largely what is being done. T-55 are being used as mobile defence, fire support and Improvised artillery. And they don't have the normal crew alotment instead only 3 men including an artillery gunner.
Why all the footage of wheeled APCs?
Cool thanks
However, most of the video shows vehicles that have NOTHING to do with the titled vehicle.
1:08 I think that's called being hoisted by your own petard XD
Actually, BTRs and BMPs are poorly protected because the Soviets relied more on amphibious vehicles rather than heavily armoured ones.
Because Many river crossings in Europe.
Well, I thought that after BTR-50 design Russia will never decide to create a ADP with a engine on the back but I guess I was wrong. For me this is the biggest problem with the entire design. It's a good idea for a infantry fire support vehicle but not as a APC.
Most soviet/russian APC and IFV have the engine at the back, including current ones
The volume is recorded too low . the narrator needs to wear a microphone
We dont apply compression to our audio, as it can make the narrator sound artificial. Thanks for your feedback nonetheless.
Interesting
4:24 bottom is a T72 not T64
can a m60 gun damage front armorr of the btr
Depends on the M60. Without the ERA, definitely can go through it. With the ERA, depends on the gun and the shell.
If you mean the M60 machine gun, I don't think so unless you are within 100 yards of the vehicle using AP ammo.
@@TanksEncyclopediaYT the 105mm L7 gun In the M60 tank firing Discarding Sabot rounds would destroy any BTR no matter what add on armor it possessed...
@@CH-pv2rz not the BTR-T we are talking about here.
Yet another infantry vehicle that seems to have given little concern for the infantry it carries.
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I love documentaries narrated by 14-year-olds. xD
Where in the hell did you get that from?
LOL 1:52 "Банзаи" - literally
2:55 ...in ninetysixyseeeaeaeven
Wargame red dragon
T-55 is an MBT, T-54 is a medium tank
"say bo"- not "say bot"
Нихуя не понял,но очень интересно...
🐈⬛
- are they going to eat their t-55s and APCs for dinner? half of the people in russlandia live in poverty (again!) and the country is heading towards another major crisis, part of it would be wide-spread hunger (again!) - this country needs to either change or disintegrate, for 100 years it's been pain in the ass and the source of War, Aggression and Unrest for the rest of the World!!!
There's tons of abandoned soviet tanks that needs saving 🤔
Hummm… driving armoured vehicles into built up areas is a bad idea. And it took them until the 1990s to work this out? Did they learn nothing in WW1? And WW2? And any conflict since that did likewise?
Apparently they learned nothing
They learned nothing lol
The T-55 also can be upgraded to replace the old turret with a Terminator turret.
Isn't that how refurbished Russian T-72 actually was
?
Bmp2 turret maybe yeah , the Terminator turret it’s just too big for T55 Imo
@@anthony_nomad_perryman Algeria did that with the T-62. They installed the latest BMP 2 turret with 4 Kornet ATGMs and added more armour all around the tank and a more powerful engine. They call it "Compact BMPT Terminator".
Thats a T-72 hull brother
@@BronxBastard730 with some nazie splattered across the front as ornaments. u kno nazi's love burning stuff, a cross, a person, a city. Slava Donbass
T-54/55 were tanks with a real longevity. Making them into apc is brilliant
I'll never understand this.... I recently saw a similar thing that ukraine did with some of their t72s, or maybe they were t62s, (i don't quite remember)
But it just doesn't seem like a good tradeoff.... You sacrifice the greatest thing about those old tanks (the turreted gun) in order to get 4 more infantrymen on the battlefield.... It seems to me like they'd make a better infantry support vehicle if they were just left alone....
To reiterate, if I went into battle with 13 dudes and a sherman tank, I (personally) would just prefer that the sherman be a complete sherman, as opposed having no main gun, and carrying 4 more dudes... Maybe that's just me
(copy pasted from another comment, just wanted to have a friendly discussion :)
@@syndicate4417 to be honest if you no know large amount of infantry is not much of a major necessity anymore in this era Battlefield combat. Russians made a big mistake in not restablish the refitting t-55 chassis with this ability. very smart the capacity of the Bradleys for the US only has about 6 to 5 infantryman. Refitted with a light auto automatic cannon and guided anti tank missiles that can shoot at helicopters and heavy armor that's a good trade-off and it's cost-effective..
@@syndicate4417 Infantry transport is really important tho, using T55 as a competent transport would be better than having it remain an obsolete tank, besides if T55 could be upgraded into a superior tank, the Russians would've done it already.
@@alexwschan185 I pretty much agree with 100% of that, but I think using an old t55 as an escort, and instead of spending millions to renovate them, using that money on trucks or dedicated APCs to do the transporting would be better IMO. I'm no officer or military strategist, but a tank brings A LOT to the battlefield in terms of infantry support
@@syndicate4417 But this BTR-T has a 30mm gun turret and 600mm of armour equivilent to RHS, it's something.
Relating to something about T-54s/55s, I literally seen one of those tanks in the 2077 April Fools event for War Thunder, it was pretty funny
Its like a Renault FT in our days
Some pretty good data presented here. My only critic would be the copious use of Soviet era wheeled APC footage while discussing modifications of the tracked T55.
BMO-T for "Special flamethrower squads?" Tell me more!
Basically just a few guys with RPOs
@@teslashark What ever happened to a good old canister of compressed napalm on your back?
Another interesting thing to cover would be the obscure often field-modified variants of various soviet IFVs used in Afghanistan for mine clearing and recovery in the incredibly rough terrain. I only know about them because of Military Model Magazines.
Those eight wheel BTR's look like they'd be fun to drive off road.
Oh, they are fun
Check-out Combat Approved: The Unsinkable BTR. It's really cool.
If you don't have enough info and illustrations, don't publish a video on the subject.
I like how the video is about the T-55 apc conversion and yet the video is BTR 80A's and BMP's...
Odd thing to like, but ok.
Vietnamese T55's were so thorougly modernized they look lile T90's.
My dream car is a T-55 tank.
"Found their protection hopelessly outmatched" yeah no shit, the BTRs and BMPs are lightly armored, even 50 cals can penetrate them from the right angle
You mean top angle?
Also yes a T-54/55 could potentially make a decent APC if it kept most of it's armor
@@marseldagistani1989 BMP 1 has 20 mm of armor, 50 cals have around 26 mm of penetration with solid ap ammunition
The BTRs have even less, 10 mm max
BMP 2 has 33 mm max but its sides, rear and top are pretty much the same as the BMP 1
@@mariobosnjak99 Lol, stop shitposting pls. BMP-1/2 can hold 23mm AA gun, and 12.7 in front. It was basic requirements for AFV/APC
@@exodus1621 yeah nah, sustained fire will go though, especially from the side and the roof which were the most targeted areas from ground and air. I do have to correct myself though, late ww2 solid AP shells from 50 cals can go through 33 mm of armor
ah, a war thunder player
To much imagery of BTR-70s which have nothing to do with the BTR-T.... Ruins the video.
Good to know.
Russia have a huge stock of T55, they have to give a better use. But the conversion to a APC is not very efficient for me. The engine is on the back, so the infantry have to get out though the top of the vehicle, and only 5 infantry man can get inside.
In my opinion, will be better to convert to tank killer or a medium terminator version.
Your forgetting how broke Russia is, like them announcing in 2015 they would purchase 2,300 Armata tanks by 2020, then only ordering 100 in 2016 before that was reduced again to 20 tanks with 100 infantry vehicle using the same chassis because it was cheaper to refurbish T-72 instead. And even still not a single Armata past the original 2015 prototypes have been delivered because the original engine keeps failing and is being replaced.
it kinds looks like our german Marder APC
I assume that the difference between BRT-T and IDF Achzarit APC is that BRT-T has to keep all this ammunition inside its hull? Achzarit can carry 2 people more and is not remarked as lacking internal space. I guess it is difficult to compare both designs without having a lot of inside footage or blueprints.
The achzarit also has that rear door thingy. Nonetheless, I think both are very interesting solutions to upgrading the T55
1:45 the word wrote on the hatch is "Banzai"
they should move the engine to the front, like the Merkava
Wow that is alot of information you guys should help consult video game RTS programs like war game air land battle , and cold war game.
Anyone know why Russians would sit on the apc instead of in it?
So they wouldnt burn alive when it got hit by RPG
A video about the BTR-T but half of the video is showing BTR-80`s(?).
for the time of when it was made this sounds more of an IFV rather than APC
The war ended with Russian completely encircling the Chechen rebels and letting them go in 1996. I hear so many versions of how Russians have lost that war but in fact they didn't, they simply agreed to make truce and let the Chechens go. Many of those Chechens ran and migrated to Europe.
1:52 BANZAI )))
Due to the main purpose of a heavy APC converted from a tank, its the heavy armour to protect the crew, and the reality of the small internal space for cannon ammo on the T-55 chassis, the most realistic armament with suficient ammo capacity would be a turret with 1xNSV + 2xATGM or a turret with 1xNSV 12.7mm, 1xPKT 7.62mm + 1 single ATGM.
Or have the turret and ammo in a module so all Internal space is kept for dismounts.
they did this because the t 55 was mass produced right idk
Easily the most produced tank ever over 100k
Learned from the Israeli Army.
I like it, sure 4 men is "low" but if you have enough T-55 APC's then it really does not matter and guys can ride on the outside while not in combat.
The engine is in the way. Troops have to mount and dismount via hatches on the roof, not ideal if the vehicle is under fire.
good video,thx apc from t55 is stupid idea but armoured fire support vehicle for close support mbt is awesome..example is russian terminator, watch war in Syria tank is so vunerable in close combat but with terminator or simmilar support urban war have more sense
It is more IFV than APC.
That autocannon firing at 7:51 looks really weird xD
Yeah, makes you wonder at the accuracy of that weapon when the muzzle is wobbling 3-4 inches when firing.
The BTR @ 2:00 says banzai on the hatch 😂
I am the only one who got an Add of warpath showing row and row of tiger 2 in stalingrad and saying that this is accurate ?
Warpath -Accurate
Pick one.
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The t55 is just a Sherman but good
Infinite uses for both tanks
One man turrets are still a bad idea, imho. A commander needs to maintain situational awareness; something he can't do while operating or servicing a gun. Sure, it seems cool, but I bet troops know better.
19:35 watch the oscillations during that slow move. Someone on the design team wasn't doing his math. His son is currently in a shock battalion in Ukrayna (kidding).
Why mention the BTR-70 at the beginning when all your film footage shows BTR-80 's !
Nice job mate accurately represented
Why there were so many wheeles BTRs shown in the video? That's really off-putting! Anyways, good voiced informations.
Why are we watching BTR-80 while talking about T-55s???
Idk why but to me, it kinda looks like a bmd that ate way too much
Hmmmmm. WARTHUNDER battle pass vehicle idea right here
Talk about T-55...show vids of BTR-80?
the T-55 is the Toyota of tanks, it does everything while not costing anything
Why is all the early video on the wheeled BTR series APC? It definitely take away from video
Sounds like a Frankentank put together from cold war relicts.
It's not actually the heaviest, BMO-T is heavier.
So we're not even sure if this thing has ever actually been utilized or was just a random idea that never went anywhere?
I'd never heard of this machine before so went looking and everything I've found just talks about it being designed and possibly tested but doesn't list any adopters or current users so it sounds as though no one ever bothered to make use of it.
I wonder if that'll change with Russia's finances being more stable these days.
If all the vehicles shown are the BTR-T, it seems to come in 8-wheel and tracked versions. Conversion from a single drive shaft for trarks to four axles for wheels, presumably multi-wheel drive, is interesting. Mobility, would differ greatly.
Run-flat tires?
Four-wheel asteering?
Все в одну кучу собрали! На базе Т-55 это БТР Ахзарит производства Израиль. А российский это БМО-Т (боевая машина огнеметчиков) на базе Т-72, это не БТР.
The Achzarit is not related to the BTR-T (except using the same chassis).
BMO-T is a separate project, specifically made for the flamethrower troops. We'll be covering that one soon as well.
Not to mention the Ukrainian's conversion of the T-64 into a beast of an APC...
Wasn’t that just a single prototype?
@@TheTyrantOfMars Whos still without turret and manufactured and designed by azov industries, who never build a tank before, best APC ever...
I'll never understand this.... I recently saw a similar thing that ukraine did with some of their t72s, or maybe they were t62s, (i don't quite remember)
But it just doesn't seem like a good tradeoff.... You sacrifice the greatest thing about those old tanks (the turreted gun) in order to get 4 more infantrymen on the battlefield.... It seems to me like they'd make a better infantry support vehicle if they were just left alone....
To reiterate, if I went into battle with 13 dudes and a sherman tank, I (personally) would just prefer that the sherman be a complete sherman, as opposed having no main gun, and carrying 4 more dudes... Maybe that's just me
(copy pasted from another comment, just wanted to have a friendly discussion :)
@@syndicate4417 Nowdays, a autocannon combined with ATGMs could offer more firepower in less sice than a big maned turret with a 75mm gun and a coaxial machinegun, most of light tanks, APCs and IFVs nowdays use that configuration in a maned or remote turret. Thats why many of them use the extra space who will ocupy the place of the 75mm cases (sherman hipotetic case) with more infantrymen, command & control systems or a small "hospital".
In a full siced medium tank, would be impossible to carry any of those things who could be very usefull in the frontline, so the flexibility of the modern systems gives a sustantial help and they become primary objectives of a enemy army, so they are becoming hevier with the time as commanders use them as key flexible units who are in the a frontline full of ATGMs of all kind of sices
P.D.: sorry for my poor level on inglish
@@asierurteaga1227 nah man that was a very comprehensive explanation, your English is quite good. Thank you. Yeah you explained a lot of great benefits that an APC would offer, and I agree with you completely, but I do think when I see them with no ATGMs and hardly any extra crew space, that the infantry may have been better supported by a main gun with multiple round types, and a machine gun or two 🤷🏻♂️ depends on the tank, and the APC conversion execution I suppose :)