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| Russian armaments: T-14 Armata and the Shmel thermobaric infantry round |
| 2025-06-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: "Armata" turned out to be too expensive [ColonelCassad] Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov on Armata: The T-14 "Armata" is an expensive tank, it is easier for the army to buy cheaper T-90 tanks. Money is now needed to create new weapons. In terms of functionality, it is, of course, much superior to existing tanks, but it is too expensive, so the army is unlikely to use it now. In general, the topic of "Armata" is closed until better times. This war requires mass production and cheapness. And "Armata" in the SVO turned out to be a classic "white elephant". In the British Navy, "white elephants" were ironically called expensive battlecruisers from the First World War, which turned out to be beautiful, expensive, but poorly adapted to the modern war of that period. There is even a separate term "Admiral Fisher's White Elephants", which has gone down in history. However, I am sure that after the war our designers will return to the topic of a tank with an unmanned turret, but where they will solve the issues of protection from drones in a completely different way, with a standard electronic warfare system and the ability to launch drones directly from the tank. More from Boris Rozhin "Bumblebee" is now flying We saw something terrifying from the drone operators of the 83rd Airborne Brigade. They equip the Molniya strike UAVs with thermobaric charges from the Shmel infantry flamethrowers. In the video, such a "winged thermobar" collapses a building with Ukrainian militants from the Ukrainian 21st Brigade in the Sumy region. (c) military correspondent Dmitry Kulko Interesting solution. |
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