Losing mood, fedaykin?

[lowzeewee]

Before 1989, Russia has serious competition on the weapons' black market aside US. Guess who ;D

Who? ???

There is already a T-95 :) Look below:

This tank is what was originally perceived in the West to be the perspective Russian MBT. It is either a hoax or a real conceptual prototype. In the latter case its relation to Nizhny Tagil design is unknown.

The design is unique in that it has a very small and extremely rounded auto-loader instead of a turret. The entire crew is situated in the hull, which is separated from the auto-loader by an armored bulkhead. Main gun rounds are placed in a circle around a loader and are delivered by a revolving transporter, fully automating the loading procedure. This scheme raises crew survivability to an incredible level.

Yet another major innovation attributed to this tank is a new anti-tank gun that has a larger caliber than the 2A46 series, 135 mm. This 135mm gun pops up occasionally since as early as the end of eighties when it was attributed to a mysterious T-86 MBT. Today it is more or less a certainty that there is no 135mm gun in existence. 2A46M is still in service, and accuracy and reliability upgrades and new ammo designs seem to bring it finally to the level of the powerful Rh-120 line of guns of Leopard, Abrams and Merkava. There are, however, indications of a 152mm tank gun being developed.

It is hard to tell how much in common does this MBT have with a real new tank being developed in Nizhny Tagil, but the main features of both vehicles are an unmanned gunpod, crew placement in the hull and a large-caliber maingun.

T-95 MBT

Turret layout

Weight: 50? metric tons

Crew: 3

Engine: 1000 hp diesel or 1250 hp gas-turbine

Max Road Speed: >75 km/h

Max X-country Speed: >48 km/h

Power/Weight: at least 24.0 hp/tn

Ground Pressure: 1.00? kg/sq.cm

Weapons

Main Weapon: 135mm smoothbore?!

Ammunition: 40? rounds

Ammunition Types: APFSDS, HEAT, HEF, ?

ATGM through 135mm: most likely 9M119M "Refleks" (Sniper-B) derivative

Auxiliary armament: UNKNOWN

Smoke Screens: Smoke Grenades, Smoke Discharger

Equipment

Rangefinder: Laser

Night Vision: Thermal Imager

Fire Control: Optical; Missile Guidance Capability

Jammers: Shtora-1? IR & SACLOS Jammer, Radar Jammer

Onboard Computer

Accuracy aids, Target recognition and acquisition,

HQ and units link, Global positioning

Active Protection System: Arena?

Front Armor (Turret): composite, very rounded

Front Armor (Hull): composite

3rd generation ERA

Side Armor (Turret): composite, very rounded

Side Armor (Hull): ?

3rd generation ERA

Rear Armor (Turret): composite, very rounded

Rear Armor (Hull): ?

Top Armor (Turret): ?

3rd generation ERA

Taken from: http://armor.kiev.ua/fofanov/Tanks/MBT/t-95.html

[Davidu]

Lowzeewee, look at my flag! We produced a lot of weapons, and guess what, Ceausescu was a good friend of Saddam, so...

[Terror]

keep in mind that with the uranium shells that the US is using, no tank armor is able to withstand. Uranium shells are so powerful that they just come out on the otherside of the enemy tank, because uranium is so hard. A normal bullet would've flattened and crashed on the side of the tank, or only pierce it once.

Uranium goes right through.

[nemafakei]

I never know it was hardness. I always thought it was the density of the uranium which meant the inertia of even a relatively small shell was great, and so difficult to stop - and moreover, that the shell had a hardened steel casing. But I may well be wrong; I only assumed this.

[Gobalopper]

"U.S. Army soldiers and a translator inspect a gold-plated German-made MP-5 submachine gun uncovered in a Baghdad arms cache."

I wonder if you could fire a gun made of gold... probably not unless it was strengthened with another metal.

[Acriku]

It is probably an alloy of sorts, or a very expensive hard gold (less expensive - lower number of karats - gold are real soft).

[lowzeewee]

Its just gold plating,the metal ally of copper,steel and iron is still below it. :)

[Anathema]

I never know it was hardness. I always thought it was the density of the uranium which meant the inertia of even a relatively small shell was great, and so difficult to stop - and moreover, that the shell had a hardened steel casing. But I may well be wrong; I only assumed this.

Yes, it's the weight of the ammunition that matters, wich is why they make the shells heavier with uranium, wich is I believe the heaviest material in existance. Iraq has no such ammo and thus their tanks are ineffective.

[Dude_Doc]

The golden gun is probably one of Saddams properties. After all, what did Saddam so with all his values?

[lowzeewee]

Well....only someone like Saddam can afford that.Even if its not saddam who owns that,he will snatch it away and torture the owner for not presenting the gun to him >:(

THose poor civillians will never afford this :(