black eagle russias main tank???

Originally posted by Raideur
BTW, it seems to have very sloped armor compared to modern tanks. The russians have always been crazy about making their tanks either incredibly short and small targets or giving them very sloped forward glacis plates to improve deflection. If you look at the Leopard, it has a box of a turret, which is undoubtibly using composite armor, but still lacks the shape to bounce rounds off the armor.

the new Leopard 2a6 have the slanted armord in the front, maybe not the sides or back. just the same for the Abrams tank, these tanks are Cold War relices design against the Soviet tanks facing in the front. also the small size dont matter animore thanks to the accuracy of the fire control system that helps hit nearly 100% its like first shot first kill.

I like it, that tank it looks so mean.

[edit on 28-6-2005 by SpittinCobra]

Originally posted by Raideur
Its just another modern MBT. If you look at the basic designs, they all look the same. This is simply Russia's first attempt to break from the old, "round and low" turret design and create something that mimics western MBTs.

yea i was thinking about that the other day and i like it the round and low thing is getting old... but maybe its better for some reason

Originally posted by russiankid
yea i was thinking about that the other day and i like it the round and low thing is getting old... but maybe its better for some reason

Yea the round and low turrent looks really ugly lol, about time russia make a cool looking tank lol. and it think the round turrent just make the tank hard to hit, but it doesn't matter anymore because modern weapons have good accuracy.

A good pic without mud and dirt blocking the shots of the tank. I've been curious bout how it looked, TY!!! LOOKS SWEAT!!! Looks like the M1 Abrams has a competitor....finally. It's been so good 4 so long, but it might b beaten: Good tank, but what if the Chinese, who's been obviously coping things, gets a hold of the design? !!!

But anyways, the Russian Army and it's Tank Legends r back.

Take it the chally 2 aint considered a competitor.....?

hmmm.... never heard of the chally 2... o_O...
but yea it might be a competitor...
and yea our Eagle does look SWEET!

Originally posted by devilwasp
Take it the chally 2 aint considered a competitor.....?

I don't know much bout the Challenger 2. I even have an encyclopedia on tanks, but it doesn't give enough info 2 make me thing so. Not 2 get off the thread, but what makes it so great. Really.

Originally posted by SEAL Trident
I don't know much bout the Challenger 2. I even have an encyclopedia on tanks, but it doesn't give enough info 2 make me thing so. Not 2 get off the thread, but what makes it so great. Really.

Its the most heavily armoured tank in the world...

www.army.mod.uk...
My faveroute tank....

Originally posted by devilwasp
Its the most heavily armoured tank in the world...

www.army.mod.uk...
My faveroute tank....

are u suuuuure? are u really suuuure? armor on present tanks are classified so u can never be sure which tank is the mostly heavily armored. could be the leopard, abrams or merkava, besides the challenger, and looking at their weight aint helping either.

im gonna do some research on the challenger 2... see if its a competitor

Looking at the link though, plain and simple: O'

... uh no idea whats that sepost to mean.... but ok

Originally posted by deltaboy
are u suuuuure? are u really suuuure? armor on present tanks are classified so u can never be sure which tank is the mostly heavily armored. could be the leopard, abrams or merkava, besides the challenger, and looking at their weight aint helping either.

It has second generation Chobham armour ,which provides increased resistance to penetration by anti-tank weapons

[edit on 26/02/2005 by devilwasp]

soooo our Eagle has second generation Chobham armour huh... thats cool! (its only cool and stuff if u r talking about the Eagle)

Originally posted by russiankid
soooo our Eagle has second generation Chobham armour huh... thats cool! (its only cool and stuff if u r talking about the Eagle)

No the challanger 2 does....the eagle has some fancy armour I think....etheir that or some other eastern tank...

... isnt the challenger2 old???? some1 said that it was from WWII

the black eagle is a upgraded T-80UM

i know it is but its still cool

the T-95 with un-manned turrnet

On vehicle protection, there are two approaches. There are up-armour packages like the Kontakt-5 EDZ. This is the heaviest explosive reactive armour (ERA) currently installed and is often referred to as 2nd generation, heavy-duty, or integral ERA. Where the conventional ERAs are only capable of defeating shaped-charge jets, Kontakt-5 can also defeat APFSDS rounds. With a fitment of Kontakt-5, long-rod penetrators can lose over 30% of their penetration potential and the protected vehicle becomes virtually immune to them (at least as "immune" as a chobham armoured tank). This type of ERA can be easily recognised as it gives the vehicle outfitted with it a distinct 'clam-shell' appearance. So, how would the main gun on an Abrams do against that? Badly, I suspect. Certainly not the “one shot, one kill” ratio that the yanks were used to in the Gulf.

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