Even if there were “paper tanks”, why shouldn´t be added to the game anyway?
Most players and gaijian don’t want to.
It starts with paper tanks & then it devolves into whatever it is World of Tanks has going on where the devs keep pulling stuff out of their ass.
Prototypes and questionably realistic vehicles in Warthunder already have a reputation for being unbalanced too
Its years late to make that case. USSR is the tree least benefited with made up vehicles and failed prototypes magically working like they never could in reality. Besides, T-14 is already in initial series production, making it much less of a “paper tank” than stuff like Maus.
Are they not just hot from the sun or something? If I’m understanding the idea right, it doesn’t seem like power should be flowing (and thus heat generated) unless something has penetrated the ERA there and/or triggered the magnetic sensors.
It seems like a pretty bad idea for quite a few reasons to have high voltage power constantly pulsing through the outer-most armor of your tank, especially when facing NATO which has a massive advantage in thermal imaging over you. Might as well stick the T-90A’s IRCM lights on the front while they’re at it.
If you want a magnetic field for you to detect a metal rod approaching, you will have to have a coil of wire generating it and that will generate some amount of heat due to the current needed to generate it
The stronger the magnetic field the more power it will draw. I don’t know what kind of field you need to detect the approaching rod, but diamagnetism/paramagnetism is afaik not the easiest to detect.
If it was becuase of the sun, the most of the surfice would have the same type of temperature. Instead, here only the Monolit blocks show a higher temp. It might be a maskirovka/disinfo thing but also might be related to how they are supposed to work.
If they add it, it needs to reflect real-life limitations:
- Shooting the optics causes the commander’s and gunner’s sights to go black, since (as far as I can tell) it does not have any backups for those systems.
- The transmission breaks every few minutes.
- Due to having no access hatch for the turret and autoloader system, if the autoloader is damaged it takes an extremely long time to reload, and the cannon cannot be reloaded during that time.
- Since it uses surplus French thermals (which are now unavailable due to the 700-Day Special Military Operation), you only get the ten free repairs that come with the vehicle; after that, you must research it all over again.
Bruh is the words i saw in your comments and all of them are all BS, bet that you not even know what is the real problem of T-14 is.
Bait?
Somewhat.
Basically, I’m trying to point out that (similarly to the 2S38) it’s a glorified technology demonstrator, with huge issues that the game doesn’t currently model in vehicles with similar systems (cough where breakable autoloaders? cough).
Very well. In that case, where is (for example) the internal turret/autoloader access hatch? While they’ve been (understandably) reluctant to allow information out about key systems (information which would be needed to model the tank correctly, by the way), they have allowed video of the crew compartment, provided that active screens and other vital information is blurred out. At least some of that video shows the bulkhead where such a hatch should be, if it actually existed.
The one possibly incorrect thing I mentioned is the transmission issues; it’s feasible (although highly unlikely, considering the event they were practicing for) that the infamous Red Square breakdown was just a fluke.
For what reason they need the hatch for it ?
The purpose of T-14 designation is protect and “isolate” the crew, why the heck they want to directly access by the crew ?
You got it wrong, the problem is caused by the engine, not the transmission.
If you take an “accident” as a failure sign to conclude that the “transmission is suck”, then welcome, with that logic, i can said that M1 Abrams side armor is suck since with just a RPG-7 non tanderm, it easily penetrated the tanks although they claim that all of the side armor is the “actuall armor” and work again HEAT.
In case you just want to refuse the existent of T-14 as fully tanks design and functioning.
Asked to leave for worst bait
So that they can fix jams (which are a fact of life with autoloaders) and/or manually load rounds if necessary.
then why not manual loaders got slow on the move and can’t reload while jumping from the cliff XD
On the fixing jam prospective, Russians just choose to repair in the back with help of repair vehicle. Two hatch for three man, added with isolated cabin for protecting crew from spall makes it unable to repair on front.
On manual loading, it is also impossible for Armata to be access and load round from inside the hull, even if such ‘hatch’ is located between autoloader and crew space. All reserve round(13 among 45 total round) were stored in the bustle on the rear of turret so crew inside could do nothing on the hull.
Also, Soviet autoloaders starting from T-64 relocate their shell by reversing autoloading mechanism. What crew on T-14 should do is putting round to case emission hatch(which exist in side of turret) and let autoloader do their job
I have written many times about thermal imagers here and on the old forum-so briefly…
To date, NATO countries have no advantage
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You can easily find information about thermal imagers in the current war on the Internet.
NATO countries are also different-there are, for example, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Bulgaria and so on…
A thermal imager today is an expendable material the same as a cartridge, there are a lot of them in the war of different classes and capabilities …
It is important which thermal imager is installed on a tactical reconnaissance drone-everything is very good here for the Russian army…
Also, the work of special reverse engineering teams on both sides and non-compliance with licensing agreements on both sides are not advertised in the media…
You probably also haven’t heard anything about the Nakidka-which is massively used on Russian equipment in the current conflict…there are a lot of photos on the Internet…
Tank thermal imagers are on the T-14 as of 2020…Further, access to information on military procurement was prohibited by a special law of the Russian Federation…-to date, thermal imagers of this class are installed on the Merkava-4M, the start of modernization was planned for 2023/Type 10/most likely on K2-although there is no exact information on Leopard-2A7 for some countries, that is, not all NATO countries…There is no exact information on Chinese…
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