Very modern, much upgrade, many useful.
I think we all knew it was going to be terrible, like virtually every actually produced MBT since the 1990s.
American here.
Y’all are allowed unions?
Been gutted since the 1980’s when they opposed the “individual freedom” Conservative party (suddenly individuals exercising their freedom is bad when you don’t like it)
We did and look how that is bringing us in the next few months
It had and still has a lot going for it. But that was a stupid decision. Especially as they just invested in a transmission to handle the upgraded engine
You can’t trust the Tories to organise a piss-up at a brewery, never mind handling the military-industrial complex. It was never going to end well. Not like any military would do something sensible.
Even the T-14, the last hope for a genuinely advanced MBT is sticking with 125mm and will likely be gutted in the futile attempt to make it somehow cheap without being pointless.
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T-14 is a propaganda project and now they trying to make it usable
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Its how IRL militaries work, if it works, keep it that way. Even if an armata took out 10 leopards in a single engagment, there will still probably be limited interests for it - if Sergey calculated that the price of a single armata can produce enough T-72B3s to destroy more tanks. Still, war thunder has not reached that time.
also remember that IRL the main use of tanks isn’t in Tank vs tank combat but rather Infantry support and frontline Bombardment
There was a time when they seemed to understand that it’s easier to make something totally new and radical than cut corners and make do.
Similar to national economies in that sense. Some idiots thought it was cheaper to skimp on infrastructure maintainance, now we’ve got massive costs because the thinking was short term and limited in scope.
Excessive pragmatism is self-defeating.
Sure. Hence BMPT.
I agree but let’s keep politics out of this game forum
It’s insane to try and seperate the technology from the context it comes in.
aren’t we all insane here?
I’m not sure most players have realised this, but we’ve basically reached peak MBT.
We’ve essentially already seen the thickest armour that exists on mass produced service vehicles. There’s basically no way up from here.
Might have something to do with devblogs and their conspicuous absence.
we have reached the time where the Leopard is in game that’s currently being phased into the German army’s inventory
Eh, there are still times to do “archology”, digging up cold war files. M1 CATTB, panzer 87, or something like objects: most ideal designs for top tier gameplay are found at the end of the 80s.
People have some strange ideas that each new number in the name corresponds with +10% RHAE thickness.
Fact is, it doesn’t. I don’t care how many decades newer it is, it’s only thicker if it’s designed thicker.
Either proof it changed or it’s just the same as it was 50 years ago.