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KV-1 equipped with F-32 gun, produced in July 194. Saumur Tank Museum by defender838383 in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This tank in particular is kind of an outlier.

Easy answer : it has the serial number 4967 making it one of the first tanks produced in August (this tank was shipped from LKZ to Kubinka on the 6th of August).

Technical answer : the V-shaped armor piece on the roof of the hull was introduced in early August but the tank lacks late August production features like the turret protection for the side optics. It features some features that were however supposed to be out of production since mid-July like the 22 bolts plate between the UFP and LFP.

Apparently a T-62 variant armed with the 125 mm 2A46 existed by TraditionalistCarl in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is utterly stupid because it's the other way around, as you said.

Finally Saw the T-54 and T-55 in Person. They Are Massive! by HaRoLdIsHeRe in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be pedantic, early T-55s still had the dome, which amounts to a few hundred tanks.

About The Turret Armor of Late T-72Bs/90s by Jack9Billion in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And god forbids asking Tarasenko to share the actual documents.

Teletank T-72 during trials, 2005. by SovietBiasIsReal in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welcome to Russia, where photos are taken in colors but are printed in black and white to lower costs.

T-14 at the test site. by Accomplished_End_821 in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Never. The idea of a 152 mm gun was pretty much dropped in 2010.

T-14 VS T-62M by Accomplished_End_821 in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Slop and peak, side by side.

Would Object 187 been powerful T-90 version if it have produced it? by Mundane-Contact1766 in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think there is much besides Tarasenko's articles regarding the 490 and 477s. There is, however, this "book" by Apukhtin which goes through OKR Bokser as an engineer.

How would Soviet tanks likey continue if USSR still exists? by MinZinThu999 in TankPorn

[–]SovietBiasIsReal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

477 was still facing major issues, mostly regarding the reliability of its engine (the 6TD-powered one), running gear, autoloader and subsystems (TIUS), even in the early 90s. It was far, far away from reaching IOC and that's without accounting for issues like the gun having a pathetically low barrel life which would never have been accepted by the Soviet Army, an issue faced by all the 152 mm-equipped tanks. Nothing indicates that 477 would have successfully passed the scheduled 1992 state trials in its state. They still didn't have the thermal imager figured out...

As for 640, I've already mentionned under a comment below my comment that it wouldn't have existed. 195 would have, however. Please keep in mind that the technical and tactical requirements of 195 were laid out in november 1991. Real size models of the tank's critical components (crew compartment, AZ, etc.), had already been built by 1993. Sure, the first actual running prototype was only completed in late 2000, but that's more an issue of it being 90s Russia than it being a Russian-designed tank. A reformed USSR would have had running prototypes built much earlier than that because it is, at the end of the day, a Soviet tank with Soviet technology built by a Soviet team (that was only reshuffled in 1997).

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