It’s both, they are running low and the autoloader doesn’t fit but doesn’t mean they couldn’t make it fit. It would just be horribly inefficient economically to do so.
Edit: I did see just now some T-80BVM’s coming off of the assembly line. I don’t know if they’re new production or refurb of older hulls.
It can’t pull too many from what it looks like. It’s going to be best for slow moving targets that aren’t maneuvering much. I don’t have any specific numbers or anything. Not to mention the new control section for the FnF guidance could be different, I don’t know.
oooh, Flying Pancake, that would be cool to see, and the OI would be cool, even if it’s existence is questionable, but hey, this is the wishlist after all
The only thing missing is photos, there’s more than enough sources to prove it existed and even a remaining original track link. I have no idea why Gaijin keep pretending it doesn’t other than as excuse to avoid whatever fees FineMolds ask for when it comes to the blueprints.
But even then, Ostwind II has neither blueprints nor images available and they added that thing twice…
I never asked a question and I never stated they couldn’t. I stated that they don’t have many of them left. This is based on satellite imagery found on the news/ISW but I also did state it also depends on if they start producing them again (from scratch). The question that someone had asked is why don’t they stick a T-90M turret on a T-80BVM hull and my part of the argument was they only have so many left and its more economical to use common T-72B3/T-90M components together and someone else added the autoloader’s being different part as well.
Later I stated they could modify the T-80BVM hull to make it fit if they really wanted to with the intent meaning its not very efficient to do so. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: No hard feelings, just trying to make sure we’re all under the same understanding for the discussion.
You understand that the absence of mothballed tanks in warehouses does not mean that there are not enough of them in the army, right? It only means that they are used on the front lines. Not to mention that it is not known how many armored vehicles of different types were lost. < Literally no one will tell you the exact figure
There have been such projects before, they were not successful because of the price, not because of the number of turrets or hulls. And besides, the tanks are fundamentally different in terms of modernization and repair
To be fair, if they’re almost out of there vehicle storage as a whole, it does show that there is at least some indication that they could be low unless they’re actively producing the vehicle from scratch again. Russia typically upgrades older hulls to new standards so its not unreasonable to come to that fact. It also depends on your news sources, I mean to is your own for that. I typically use ThinkTanks for my updates vice news.
I mostly agree with this, as I mentioned earlier its a lot more inefficient to have to go to such lengths to fit such vehicles together when there’s limited commonality. I do think the number of hulls/turrets they have left also play into some degree but we don’t have to beat that dead horse further. We pretty much agree mostly on this lol.