HISTORY:
Object 292 was a Russian experimental tank that was designed and made by the design bureau of the Kirov Plant. The prototype was based on the T-80U tank turret, and the chassi was the T-80BV with slight modifications done to it.
The T-80U turret got its gun removed and was modified to house a 152.4 smoothbore gun. It was made so that it can destroy any NATO tank in any distance at that time.
DESIGN:
The tank like said before was using the turret of a T-80U and the chassi of T-80BV, the tank was fitted with a LP-83 152.4 mm smoothbore gun. Like most Russian tanks of it’s time it suffered of poor gun depression and slow reload despite having an autoloader. And becouse of the havey wight of the gun the traverse speed of the turret was slower that of the regular T-80s.
Despite this in trails that the Object 292 went through in 1991, has shown high stability and reliability of the gun and the tank itself. But becouse of the lack of funding further developmeant were stoped. An intressting fact is that the gun turret could be interchanged between standard T-80 MBTs and the ammo rack had a maximume load of 16 152 mm rounds.
SPECIFICATIONS:
WIDTH: 3.525 m
HEIGHT: 2.193 m
CREW: 3
GUN: 152.4 Smoothbore LP-83
AMMO MAX SPEED: 1980/960 M/S
AMMO MAX RANGE: 2500/2500 M
SHELL TYPE: APFSDS/HE
RELOAD TIME: 10.3 SEC
AMMO CAPACITY: 16 Rounds (in autoloader carusel)
DEPRESSION: 4.5 DEG
ELEVATION: 14 DEG
ENGINE: GTD-1250
ENGINE POWER: 1250 HP
POWER/WEIGHT RATIO: 28.78 HP/T
TOP FORWARD SPEED: 70 KM/H
TOP REVERSE SPEED: 20 KM/H
TRAVERSE SPEED: 44 DEG/SEC
Sadlly i could not find any information about the shells it used! But would love to have that information, so if someone finds it before me i would love if they could just post it in the comments! I will be also trying to find more information!
That may well be, but @AtlasLaion listed technical information in his original post and I’d like to know where I can find that info.
Gaijin may have their own sources, but we don’t know that and they might very well just copy & paste.
I also would like to read up on the tank itself, so any good source would be very welcome from that point of view as well.
There is no theoretical ERA. This is just the test bed, which didn’t have and wasn’t planned to carry ERA, though at the same time it wasn’t planned to be used in combat either.
