July 27, 2015
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After more than two decades and a generation of technology development, the Russian military is reportedly considering bringing back tanks equipped with lasers. Word of the plan comes after Russian media has spent months teasing the capabilities of the Armata T-14 tank, the Kremlin's new high-tech war machine.
For nearly 20 years, from the mid-1970s through the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union invested heavily in expensive T-80 laser tanks designed to track and eliminate American satellite systems, high-powered missiles and other advanced weapons.
Blinding equipment lasers on old T-80 tanks
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Ray Finch, an Army Foreign Military Studies Office analyst, in the July 2015 issue of OE Watch said “Yet merely hearkening back to (and exaggerating) the glory days of the Soviet weapon design – without the requisite investment in the country's technological infrastructure – will not produce the next wonder-weapon.”
Russia plans to station missiles in the Baltics
Missiles placed in Baltics would threaten Poland, Romania and Germany
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Ray Finch, an Army Foreign Military Studies Office analyst, in the July 2015 issue of OE Watch said “Yet merely hearkening back to (and exaggerating) the glory days of the Soviet weapon design – without the requisite investment in the country's technological infrastructure – will not produce the next wonder-weapon.”
Russia plans to station missiles in the Baltics
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sharply criticized Russia for plans to station Iskander-M missile complexes in Kaliningradskaya Oblast. “This will fundamentally alter the balance of security in Europe,” Stoltenberg noted. He called our country’s actions “destabilizing and dangerous.”
At first glance NATO has something to fear. Missiles of the complex are capable of hitting targets at a distance up to 500 km and it is practically impossible to shoot them down. But it should be taken into account that the Russian leadership’s decision more likely was forced. The Alliance decided to use MK-41 versatile vertical launch system launchers in the Aegis-Ashore ground-based missile defense (PRO) complexes being stationed in Poland and Romania, but with such launchers the PRO systems become not only defensive, but also offensive, since they are capable of employing Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Western systems cannot intercept Iskander missiles, since they are very maneuverable.
Iskander-M missile
August 16, 2015
Russian Builder of T-14 Armata claims it has radar and infrared invisibility
Armour specialists from both Russia and the United States are sceptical of recent claims made by the enterprise that produces Russia's new T-14 Armata MBT that the tank is essentially "invisible" to radar.
The claim was made by the director of the Nizhi-Tagil-based UralVagonZavod (UVZ) plant, Vyacheslav Khalitov, on Ekho Moskvy radio on 3 July.
"We essentially made the invisible tank," said Khalitov. He also elaborated on the tank's internal arrangement, stating that key "emitters" that normally make other tanks vulnerable to current-generation anti-armour weapons are fitted as far as possible into the interior of the Armata to reduce its infrared (IR) signature.
About the tank's own radar signature, Khalitov said the T-14's hull is coated with special radar-absorbing paint and other materials and appliqués that make it difficult to be detected.
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