The Russian-designed 115 mm 2A20 Molot gun is fitted to the T-62 tank, introduced into service in 1962. This was the first smoothboreNoun. smoothbore (plural smoothbores) (firearms) a cannon, gun or other firearm that has an unrifled barrel.https://en.wiktionary.org › wiki › smoothbore
The tank when fully loaded carried 39 rounds with an effective shooting range of 2000-3000m in the daylight and 850-1300m at night. The T-72 is powered by a V-46 diesel engine, developing 780 horsepower, using six large roadwheels similar to those on the T-55 and T-62 series tanks.
The tank cannon has a maximum effective range of about 3000 meters, and precise aim is required to make a hit. The self-guided missile, however, can — like Longbow Hellfire — be effective to more than 8000 meters, and the electronic brain continually corrects the flight path as necessary.
Russian T-14 Tanks Get Anti-Tank Missile With 7-Mile Range.
It was an inexpensive, easy-to-use anti-tank weapon for the common infantry man, being issued as a single unit of ammunition meant to be operated by a single soldier. Firing was done from under the arm at an upward angle as the effective firing range was barely beyond that of hand grenades (30–60 m (98–197 ft) max).
In an early encounter with the Allies in Tunisia, 8 rounds fired from a 75mm-wide artillery gun were said to have ricocheted off the side of a Tiger from a distance of just 150 feet. Meanwhile, a shot from a Tiger's 88mm gun could penetrate 100mm-thick armour at ranges up to 1,000 metres.
The tank is fitted with a new L30E4 120 mm rifled gun. It is capable of firing a wide variety of standard NATO 120 mm tank munitions. This gun is loaded manually. Effective range of fire with armor-piercing round is over 3 000 m.
Russia's T-14 is considered the most advanced tank in the world. Composite by Coffee or Die Magazine. Russia has the largest stockpile of tanks in the world, and 1,200 of them are staged near the Ukrainian border. The most formidable Russian tank may be the T-14 Armata, but how does it match up against American armor?
As of 20 December 2022, the open-source intelligence site, Oryx has visually confirmed the loss of 36 Russian T-90s (28 T-90A: 15 destroyed, 1 abandoned, 12 captured and 8 T-90M: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged, 2 abandoned, 2 captured).
Firing the Panzergranate 39, the KwK 40 L/43 could penetrate 77 mm (3.03 in) of steel armour at a range of 1,830 m (6,000 ft). The longer 7.5 cm guns were a mixed blessing.
Overall the new Russian tank is on par with the US Abrams tank. In some areas it is slightly superior than the Abrams, however it has got no cutting-edge superiority. The Abrams has technical superiority in terms of mobility and cross-country performance.
(Some sources put it at 5,100 meters). This was scored with a high-velocity armor-piercing round rather than the high-explosive rounds used by the Ukrainian gunner, who still managed to double the record.
All of this means that Russian tanks are quite well protected from the front. For the massed head-on engagements that they were designed for, and especially in defensive positions where the tanks can be dug into the ground, they are capable and effective vehicles, providing that they are properly operated.
For example, the Russian 115 mm 2A20 Molot tank gun fitted with the TSHS-41U telescopic sight and firing the 3OF18 HE-FRAG projectile has an effective range of 3000 m. At night, firing with the TPN-1 night sight, it is 800 m for all projectile types – a limitation of the sight, not the ammunition.
Unlike modern Western tanks, Russian ones carry multiple shells within their turrets. This makes them highly vulnerable as even an indirect hit can start a chain reaction that explodes their entire ammunition store of up to 40 shells.
In all, Russia has at least 2,000 potentially restorable tanks, meaning it will not run out during its war in Ukraine – even if it has to roll back its relics from the early 1960s. But Russia also has alternative sources: Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko's regime possesses over 500 modernized T-72 tanks.
In November Lloyd Austin, America's defence secretary, spoke of “significant shortages”. At a briefing on December 12th a senior American defence official said that, at current rates of use, Russia could sustain “fully serviceable” tube and rocket artillery ammunition only until early 2023.
The top ten tanks today are the German KF51 Panther, the American Abrams M1A2, the Russian T-14 Armata, the Korean K2 Black Panther, the Chinese T-99, the German Leopard 2, the French Leclerc XL, the British Challenger 2, the Israeli Merkava V, and the Japanese Type-90.
Some reports claim that Russia has over 17,000 tanks, while other reports claim that they only have 12,000 tanks, I guess nobody knows for sure, but the amount of tanks should amount somewhere between those numbers.
No, Russia's accelerating tank losses are the result of leadership and morale problems more than they are any technological imbalance on the battlefield. Half of the tanks the Russians have written off since early September were abandoned by their crews and seized by the Ukrainians.
The Russian Army's operational tank fleet
As many as 3,000 tanks were churned out annually.
According to the report, Australia Army has a total of 59 combat tanks and 2040 armoured fighting vehicles.
Tanks with smoothbore guns use fin-stabilized ammunition, making the rifling unnecessary.
Developments in tank armor soon made tanks generally impervious to 50 caliber rounds,39 but according to the Marine Corps and other authorities, the 50 caliber can still blast through more lightly armored vehicles, such as armored personnel carriers, and thus clearly through armored limousines.