The Black Eagle,articles and pics

Modeling Subjects Armor
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http://www.pmulcahy.com/tanks/russian_tanks.html
http://armor.kiev.ua/fofanov/Tanks/MBT/b_eagle.html
http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/5pansar/
I posted this for all of you who would want to see this sci-fi moster of today.This makes the M1A1 look like a kids toy compared to what this thing can do.The Russians learned a lot about thier armor in the Yugo and Iraq wars to produce this tank.This thing makes all other tanks obselete.Digger
p.s.I erased the pravda article due to its languge.

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I read that the are designing this not for their own use but for the South Koreans. That was here:
http://armor.kiev.ua/fofanov/Tanks/MBT/b_eagle.html

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Jason I read some more articles that state that Putin whats to produce this for the Russian military.If true there will be some slight changes made like a 152 MM gun put on it,also the crew does not sit in the turret but with the driver in a crew compartment.This allows them to add more armor on top.Some other articles like from Jane’s defence said that sevaerl test on it armor was made,one which was a Javilin missle,was shot at the top.This report said the missle could not go throught the armor.If this is true,this makes this tank one hard beast to kill.Digger

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well it sounds cool but what do you make of this quote:

“The bustle-mounted ammunition system also allows the Black Eagle to incorporate blowout panels for ammunition storage. If a hit indicates an ammunition explosion, the vehicle is not destroyed. Instead, all ammunition is destroyed, and the commander and loader take 50 concussion hits each.”

sounds like something from a PC game??

i’m confused

N

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digger- wow, that’s impressive
nmayhew- Russian Tank Drivers have 55 hit points while the level 2 commander has 60. Seriously, I have no idea what that means.

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thanks for the links digger!