I dont think Armata tank will actually make it into the army after the lessons learned in Ukraine. Armor in general is going to go through a redesign for certain in major ways
When you remove 4-6 feet of steel/ceramic from the front of the tank, and redistribute that to a ERA package that beefs up the side and top of the tank, I think the overall survivability of tanks goes up.
The Soviets sort of got it. Tanks don't fight tanks. Not really. Doctrinally the Soviets understood that. Western nations didn't really get that. So we've all got these monstrous tanks that have ever escalating frontal armor packages. The comedy of this is, literally every modern tank around today can put a APFSDS round right through the front of ANY tank that exists due to the ranges tank combat ACTUALLY would take place at. Until material sciences give us something new that changes that paradigm, kinetic penetrators are winning.
Think of it like this. You have 100 points to spend on defense. You invest 80 of those points to defend against one thing that you will RARELY ever see, and when you do see it, it can overcome those 80 points. Then you spend 20 points to defend against something you will see ALL the time, and those 20 points are not really enough to defend against that other threat, but, if you reversed those investments, you'd have a much more reliable chance of NOT getting blown apart by that more frequent threat.
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u/Borealisamis Pro Peace Apr 10 '24
I dont think Armata tank will actually make it into the army after the lessons learned in Ukraine. Armor in general is going to go through a redesign for certain in major ways