Tank against missile: the T-90 of Russia against the tug of America (Who wins?)
Tank against missile: the T-90 of Russia against the tug of America (Who wins?)
The Steel Research Institute, a Russian company that manufactures reactive armor plates for the T-90, was pleased . The crew lived, according to reports in the Russian press, and the only visible damage was in one of the two Shtora transmitters of the T-90, which hung loose from the photograph. However, the angle of the photograph only shows a glimpse of the side of the turret that was hit.
For all videos coming out of the Syrian civil war, a 31-minute clip of a US-made TOW missile. crashing into a T-90 tank It has more attention than most. In the video uploaded in February, the most advanced operational battle tank in Russia met with one of the leading tank killers in the United States on the battlefield.
(This appeared for the first time several years ago.)
The T-90 was made in Russia, but probably manned by Syrian troops. The missile was supplied by the United States, probably through Saudi Arabia or the CIA, to the Hawks Mountain Brigade fighting near Aleppo.
For the participants, the whole experience could have been terrifying. For most of the rest of the world, it was an opportunity to see what happens when the vanguard hardware of two great world powers collides violently in the Middle East.
The only good news is that nobody seems to be killed. What happened to the tank ... well, no one who saw the video was exactly sure.
We saw the missile guided by cable to the T-90, which was parked on a ridge between two low-rise buildings. Then the missile hit the turret of the tank with a tremendous flash that sent a cloud of smoke. One of the crew members left and the video ended.
There was no fire and the tank was not "prepared", which means that the fuel tank did not ignite and burned the crew to death. (The Syrian army has lost thousands of tanks since the war began in 2011.) This, apparently, survived.
A recent photograph circulated in Russian military forums shows how the tank looked after the impact. Indeed, the reactive armor Kontakt-5 of the T-90 seemed to save it. The reactive armor explodes outward and prevents incoming missiles from entering the tank and killing the crew.
The Steel Research Institute, a Russian company that manufactures reactive armor plates for the T-90, was pleased . The crew lived, according to reports in the Russian press, and the only visible damage was in one of the two Shtora transmitters of the T-90, which hung loose from the photograph. However, the angle of the photograph only shows a glimpse of the side of the turret that was hit.
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The Shtora is an electro-optical electrical interference designed to interrupt guided missiles. It is not clear if the jammers were on, or did not work, when the Hawks Mountain Brigade opened fire. Russian media also reported that the tank in particular was an earlier version of the T-90, so the most recent updates, such as the T-90A that has a modified turret, should work better.
Photography does not tell us much more than adding more evidence to what everyone already expected: that the missile disabled the tank, but it did not destroy it. The T-90 was eliminated from the fight, and the Syrian army soon withdrew it. to a repair plant According to the Russian trade magazine. Military-industrial courier .
The main thing is that the armor seemed to fulfill its function. Losing a tank from the front line is one thing: it can always be replaced or repaired. The Syrian army was probably relieved to have saved the crew from being killed.
Robert Beckhusen He is the chief editor of War Is Boring. This piece appeared for the first time in War Is Boring. here.
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