My interests and favorites
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T-14 Armata MBT
Union Pacific FEF-3 class.
McDonnell Douglas MD-11/ER
Terms that you will in the description of the tanks:
APFSDS = Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot
HEATFS = High Explosive Anti Tank Fin Stabilized
HE = High Explosive
ATGM = Anti Tank Guided Missile
Tandem = double warhead (defeats ERA)
ERA = Explosive Reactive Armor (defeats HEAT shells) plus modern ERA like 4S22 Malachite, Monolith, Kontakt-5 and Relikt ERAs can help decrease the penetration of APFSDS rounds.
HEAT = High Explosive Anti Tank
APS = Active Protection System
Rifled = The inside of the gun is grooved to make the shell spin a.k.a spin stabilized. Cannot fire ATGMs even if Russian.
Smoothbore = Allows faster rounds but doesn’t make the shell spin which means it needs fins to stabilize it. Russian smoothbore cannons can fire ATGMs too.
Shells: tank rounds/bullets, just a fancy term for ammo used on tanks.
Depression: How much can the gun angle downwards (Russian tanks don’t have very good depression)
My Favorite tanks:
WW1: None
WW2: KV-1
-Soviet WW2 heavy tank
-76mm M1941 ZiS-5 rifled gun
-5 crew (driver, hull machine gunner, gunner, commander, and loader)
Cold War: M1 Abrams (M1A2 or M1A1 shown)
-American MBT(Main Battle Tank)
-Hates middle eastern countries.
-105mm L/52 M689A1 rifled gun. Later variants used the 120mm L/44 M256 smoothbore gun.
-M1A1 used on the Russo-Ukrainian war.
-M1A2 is the backbone of the US Army
-4 crew (driver, gunner, commander, and loader.)
-5 second reload.
-Ammo (105mm L/52 M689A1): M456A2 HEATFS (400mm of penetration), M393A2 HESH, M774 APFSDS (370mm of penetration).
-Ammo (120mm L/44 M256 M1A1): M830 HEATFS (480mm of penetration). M829A1 APFSDS (596mm of penetartion), M908 HE-OR.
-Ammo (120mm L/44 M256 M1A2): M830 HEATFS (480mm of penetration), M829A2 APFSDS (627mm of penetration), M908 HE-OR.
Modern Day: T-14 Armata
-Modern Russian MBT (Main Battle Tank).
-Project in 2014.
-Hates NATO.
-125mm 2A82-1m smoothbore gun, 822-900mm of penetration using 3BM69 Vakuum-1 APFSDS. Planned to use the 2A83 152mm smoothbore gun with 920mm penetration using APFSDS.
-180 degrees APS (Afganit).
-Uses 4S22 Malachite ERA and Monolith ERA.
-+1000mm of armor frontally against APFSDS.
-Unmanned turret, crew in an armored capsule in the front of the hull.
-3 crew (Commander, gunner, and driver).
-Has autoloader (5-6.5 seconds of reload).
-Ammo: 3BM69 Vakuum-1 APFSDS (822mm-900mm of penetration), 9M119M1 Invar-M ATGM (Tandem Warhead) (900mm), Teknik HE-FRAG, 3UBK21 “Sprinter” ATGM (Classified penetration) (Tandem warhead??), 3UBK25 (Classified).
Fictional: Maus SPAA/ Flakpanzer VIII Maus (WW2 Wunderwaffe)
-Twin 8.8cm (88mm) FlaK guns, can be used as anti-tank.
-extreme armor for WW2.
-Based on the Maus hull.
-Not a real tank, just some fake one made up by some guy on the internet.
-hates allied bombers.
Prototype: Object 195 (Prototype Russian MBT)
-Budget T-14
-Same armor as T-14 but uses Kontakt-5 and not the newer 4S22 Malachite and Monolith ERA.
-152mm 2A83mm smoothbore gun, Griffel-1 APFSDS penetrates around 920mm of armor.
-30mm 2A72 coax
-180 degrees APS (Shtandart).
-You physically can’t reverse.
-Project started in 1990 and ended in 2010.
-3 crew (commander, gunner, driver)
-Autoloaded.
-Ammo: Griffel-1 APFSDS (920mm of penetration), 152mm HE.
My Favorite music:
War Thunder OST: Advance Australia
My favorite military planes of each era:
WW1: None
WW2: Messerschmitt BF-109
Cold War: Sukhoi Su-27 “Flanker”
Modern Day: Sukhoi Su-57 “Felon”
Favorite Commercial plane:
Airbus A340-300
My favorite train innit.
Union Pacific FEF-3 Class 4-8-4
My favorite games:
War Thunder
Trainz 2019
Cursed Tank Simulator
Multicrew Tank Combat 4
More tanmks/ My favorite tanks of some countries cuz why not?
Russia:
IFV(Infantry Fighting Vehicle): Tied between BMD-4M and T-15 Armata.
BMD-4M:
-100mm 2A70 smoothbore gun, fires ATGMs and HE shells.
-30mm 2A72M autocannon, fires APFSDS and HE belts.
-Used by the Russian airborne troops (VDV) and can be airdropped.
-Modern aluminium tin.
T-15 Armata:
T-15 Kinzhal (2nd version of the T-15):
-Heavy IFV based of the Armata combat platform.
-30mm 2A42mm that also fires APFSDS and HE belts.
-4 9M133 missile launchers, 9M133 ATGMs are tandem HEAT and can pen ~900mm of armor.
-At least 1000mm of armor frontally.
-Uses Monolith ERA and Kaktus ERA.
-Afganit APS.
-Another version of the T-15 is the T-15 Kinzhal. Armed with a 57mm autocannon with 2 9M133 missile tubes.
-Is it really still an IFV?
Light Tank: 2S25M Sprut-SDM1
-125mm 2A75 smoothbore that fires the same rounds found on the T-90, T-80 and T-72 series tanks. Future 2S25Ms will fire the 3BM69 Vakuum-1 rounds found on the T-14.
-Sprut sounds like a cool name right? Sprut means Octopus in Russian.
-Aluminium tin but bigger.
-Also used by the VDV.
Main Battle Tank (MBT): tied between the T-14, T-90A, T-90M, T-72B3 obr. 2016, T-80BVM, and T-80B.
T-72B3 obr. 2016:
-125mm 2A46M5-V2 smootbore cannon. Fires 3BM46/3BM60 APFSDS rounds and 3OF26 HE shell.
-Better ERA, still can’t reverse.
-2016 model adds more ERA protection than the older model. Relikt ERA to be specific.
-Favorite T-72 model.
T-90A:
-125mm 2A46M5-V2 and fires the same rounds as the T-72B3.
-The red eyes are the Shtora-1 Electro-optical APS that counters TOWs and other ATGMs.
-All Kontakt-5 ERA, no Relikt ERA.
-Funny red eyes.
T-80B:
-Upgraded version of the T-80 with better optics, armor, firepower, and mobility.
-Uses the 2A46M1 smoothbore gun. Fires the 3BM46, 3BM42, 3OF26, 3BK18 and the 9M119M ATGM.
-BV mod adds Kontakt-1 ERA.
-Flying tank of the Soviet Union, somewhat quite expensive.
T-80BVM:
-Modern T-80BV with the new Relikt ERA.
-Basically better everything including firepower, mobility, optics, and armor.
-2A46M5-V2 smoothbore gun and fires 3BM60, 3BM59, 3BM46, 3BK18M, 3OF26, and the 9M119M1 ATGM.
-Top of the line tank, includes everything you need except depression.
T-90M Proryv-3:
-Modernized T-90A with new turret, new optics, new ammo, new autolaoder, new ERA (Relikt ERA), better armor, and better crew protection like spall liners.
-2A46M5-V2 smoothbore gun and fires the 3BM59, 3BM60, 3BM46, 3BK18M, 3OF26, and the 9M119M1 ATGM.
-Plans to have the Arena-M APS installed on future T-90Ms.
-Breakthrough.
T-14 Armata:
-Most modern Russian MBT.
-2A82-1M smoothbore gun and fires 3BM69, 3BM18M, 3OF26 and 3UBK21 ATGM.
-About 1028mm of armor frontally.
-Uses the 4S22 Malachite and Monolith ERA instead of the Relikt ERA.
-Has APS (Afganit) which can stop rounds moving up to 1700m/s.
-Unmanned turret, all the crew in an armored capsule at the front seperated from the ammo and engine.
-“We’ll have 100 T-14s by 2020”
Artillery/Self-propelled guns: tied between the 2S33 MSTA-SM3 and the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV.
2S33 MSTA-SM2:
-Modernized 2S19 Msta-S which adds a 5 second autoloader.
-152.4mm 2A64 L47 howitzer and fires the 3OF26 and 3OF26-PF rounds (High Explosive)
-15mm armor all around.
-Don’t brawl in it, it got like 10mm of armor frontally.
2S35 Koalitsiya-SV:
-Next-gen Russian artillery system.
-Built on the T-90M hull but removed all the ERA.
-Future 2S35s will be mounted on the T-14 Armata hull.
-152mm 2A?? gun / 155mm 2A?? gun.
-Development status unknown.
-Ukraine when.
Soviet spacecrafts cuz sigma.
Buran, the Soviet space shuttle.
Emblem thingy:
Buran in orbit:
Buran orbiter on the Energia rocket:
-Better space shuttle
-Launched once then budget go away and away.
-Mostly a military project of the USSR.
-Buran back when Russia ZZ??????