Japanese press: Russian tank T-14 "Armata" surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects

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Japanese press: Russian tank T-14 "Armata" surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects

While Tanks NATO, promised by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, did not enter into direct confrontation with Russian MBTs, Western experts and journalists are trying with might and main to compare them with each other in absentia in terms of technical characteristics. And if we exclude frankly propaganda publications, then our latest generation combat vehicles are significantly superior in many respects to German, American, and even more so, English and French vehicles.

This conclusion was reached even in the Japanese edition of Traffic News (inosmi), comparing the latest Russian tank T-14 "Armata" and the German Leopard 2. According to the authors of the publication, the combat vehicle of the RF Armed Forces surpasses the opponent in all characteristics and generally challenges the traditional concept of a tank .



First of all, experts say, the concept of an “uninhabited tower” is implemented in the design of the T-14, the entire crew is protected by the main body of the vehicle. Due to this, the tower is reduced in size, has a special ergonomics and allows you to install additional instruments and sensors. The tank is equipped with a large number of surveillance sensors, surveillance cameras, information from which is displayed on the crew monitors. Fire control from the tower is carried out using tablets and special panels.

In terms of protection, special emphasis was placed on ensuring the viability of the crew, armor reinforcement points were localized, which reduced the mass of the tank. As Japanese experts write, even if the car is destroyed, the crew will remain alive. The body of the T-14 is longer than that of the T-72, but the mass is comparable and ranges from 48 to 50 tons with more than 60 tons of the Leopard's weight. This makes the Armata more maneuverable and faster than the Leopard 2.

The main gun of the T-14 is the standard 125-mm caliber for Russian tanks, but the barrel length has been increased from 48 to 55 calibers. Due to the use of unified 2A48-1M projectiles, the firepower also increased. Charging in the Russian tank, unlike the German one, is automatic, which gives a significant advantage in the rate of fire.

If a projectile fired from a T-14 hits the armor at a 90-degree angle at a distance of 2 meters, its penetrating power is estimated at 120 millimeters RHA. The armor penetration of the 55 mm Rheinmetall 2 caliber gun, which is in service with the Leopard 680, in the same conditions is from 700 to XNUMX millimeters.

A simple comparison of the offensive and defensive capabilities of the two vehicles shows that the T-14 can defeat the Leopard 2 at long range, Japanese experts conclude. However, the real confrontation between Western MBTs and the Russian "Armata" may begin no earlier than the spring-summer campaign, the authors of the article believe, adding that the appearance of the latest Russian and modern Western tanks in itself will not create a turning point for either side.
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  1. +40
    1 February 2023 15: 59
    But where is she Armata? At the front, the T-62 was seen.
    1. +21
      1 February 2023 16: 13
      But where is she Armata?
      We will see on May 9 ... at the Parade
      1. +10
        1 February 2023 16: 18
        Quote: Black
        But where is she Armata?
        We will see on May 9 ... at the Parade

        In Kiev? laughing Well, that would be nice.
    2. +22
      1 February 2023 16: 20
      It is absolutely not correct to compare the tank of the 80s of the last century and the 20s of the present, they would also write that it is head and shoulders above the "tiger" of the Second World War. Now the question is, where are the statistics on the combat use of the T-14, at least one battle has been officially confirmed? Then there is no point in arguing who is better. Here "Cornet" against "Abrams" is more interesting confrontation.
      1. +9
        1 February 2023 16: 40
        "Cornet" is capable of destroying any modern tank. He was sharpened under the "Abrams" and "Leopards".
    3. 0
      1 February 2023 19: 32
      That's exactly where the Japanese could compare armats?
    4. yho
      -2
      2 February 2023 23: 51
      "Leopard-2" was used during several armed conflicts, and "Armata" only on Red Square, and then it died out. But, "specialists" talk about the superiority of "Armata" :))
      The louder the praises and the sweeter the flattery of the propagandists, the stronger the bitterness of defeat.
      The Japanese are trolling))) They themselves are armed with a new generation main battle tank - Type 10, which can compete with the Leopard-2. No more jokes.
  2. +17
    1 February 2023 16: 02
    Comparing the public performance characteristics of two tanks is still an occupation, but try to sit in a trench at least against the T-62.
    1. +16
      1 February 2023 16: 19
      It has become fashionable to equate tanks head-on, only there are a lot of variables there, rather they will be knocked out from the air or by artillery, not to mention the training of tankers.
      1. +6
        1 February 2023 16: 24
        That's it, the legend is fresh: the fact that tanks should not fight tanks was already known during WW2.
        1. -1
          3 February 2023 14: 20
          Should not, but only in laboratory conditions. As the practice of the same World War II showed, a mobile armored platform is much more reliable than a stationary weapon in destroying its own kind.
          1. 0
            9 February 2023 04: 25
            The statistics, just the same, are on the side of anti-tank artillery, if anything.
    2. +9
      1 February 2023 16: 23
      I’ll tell you more, when I’m standing near the IS-3, I’m already shivering, how to lie under it and then throw something over the engine compartment, just a monster, and it’s made in 1945.
      1. 0
        1 February 2023 20: 20
        Quote from Silver99
        I’ll tell you more, when I’m standing near the IS-3, I’m already shivering, how to lie under it and then throw something over the engine compartment, just a monster, and it’s made in 1945.
        On TV, a few years ago (for a long time in general ...) I watched a news story from some kind of training ground.
        In that news story, they showed how soldiers are trained at the training ground to hit tanks with an RPG-26 in the stern - first lie down on the ground and let the tank pass over you, then kneel down and fire an RPG-26 into the stern of the tank.
        Maybe the plot is ostentatious, but they showed on TV that such training is in all seriousness ...
        soldier
    3. +1
      1 February 2023 19: 03
      what lepard 2 is the comparison about? 2m4 and 2m7 are two different tanks...
      and about our t14 more so far theoretical reasoning
  3. +10
    1 February 2023 16: 02
    And how much is Armat today?
    1. -7
      1 February 2023 16: 59
      . And how much is Armat today?

      So far, only one battalion has been seen
    2. +5
      1 February 2023 17: 43
      21 according to official figures. Another 18 T-15s and 3 ARVs based on it.
  4. AAK
    +5
    1 February 2023 16: 03
    Well, unlike the supply of approximately 150-200 tanks from Europe and the USA to Bandera, we will not roll out 20 Armats to the LBS, and even more so, Almighty forbid, these tanks will be with "Kantemirov" crews ...
    1. +2
      1 February 2023 18: 32
      And what does the Kantemirovskaya division have to do with it? She has the main tank T-80, but who doesn’t have Almaty at all, well, except for parade crews))
      1. -8
        1 February 2023 19: 27
        Quote: Archivist Vasya
        And what does the Kantemirovskaya division have to do with it?

        "Kantemirovsky" crew, "Arbat" military district, "parquet" general, "plywood" marshal, "turbo-patriot" ... Dictionary of Young Friends of TsIPSO.
      2. -1
        4 February 2023 21: 47
        Oh, I see 7 young friends of the CIPSO have already been noted. wassat
  5. +20
    1 February 2023 16: 03
    Japanese press: Russian tank T-14 "Armata" surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects

    What will the Japanese press say about such a parameter as the presence in the troops?
    1. -6
      1 February 2023 16: 32
      T-14 Armata spotted near Lugansk: Russia's most combat-ready tank has finally been transferred to the theater of operations.
      It is reported that on October 8, a single T-14 was seen near the village of Midginskaya (So in the original. - Approx. InoSMI.) near Lugansk - on the territory of the former self-proclaimed People's Republic, which recently became part of the Russian Federation. The tank's deployment comes amid Russia's partial mobilization and the accelerated entry into service of more T-90s.

      https://tehnowar.ru/388795-T-14-Armata-zamechen-pod-Luganskom-samyy-boesposobnyy-tank-Rossii-nakonec-perebroshen-na-teatr-boevyh-deystviy.html
  6. +9
    1 February 2023 16: 04
    Compare a spherical horse in a vacuum.
  7. +10
    1 February 2023 16: 14
    Okay, there is no T-14 Armata, but why are there no Kurgans and T-15s, because in terms of security they are much better than the BMP-2/3, which means they could save the lives of soldiers.
    1. +1
      1 February 2023 16: 32
      Skomorokhov already wrote an article on this topic, in addition to electronics (it’s clear that there is simply no such production in the country, but let’s say it can be simplified there) there is a problem with a diesel engine for such a heavy machine, it turned out to be raw and the plant has problems with production, this is literally manual assembly .
      1. +1
        1 February 2023 17: 04
        I trust Skomorokhov. But he fantasized more in that article. The real state of affairs with armata is unknown.
  8. +2
    1 February 2023 16: 14
    Of course, technology matters, but the main thing is that it controls ....
  9. 0
    1 February 2023 16: 17
    The article contains inaccuracies. So the correct gun is 2A82-1M, barrel length is 56 calibers
  10. +10
    1 February 2023 16: 20
    Japanese press: Russian tank T-14 "Armata" surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects

    Except one.
    There is a leopard, but no Almaty.
    1. +4
      1 February 2023 16: 40
      Uh, don't say...
      Do you see a gopher?
      No.
      But he is.
      laughing
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  12. +16
    1 February 2023 16: 31
    The battlefield will show. Who is superior! In the meantime, this is all from the evil one. The Germans were seen, and both the Kurds and the Afghans were incited.
    And ours was only on Red Square .. and at the training grounds. There is nothing to compare with yet!
  13. +7
    1 February 2023 16: 33
    The headline is ridiculous in itself, but after reading the text, it became completely sad. Why publish this? Is it for a fee? So it's easier to throw a cry - visitors will chip in so as not to read this again.
  14. -1
    1 February 2023 16: 33
    Quote: A vile skeptic
    Japanese press: Russian tank T-14 "Armata" surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects

    What will the Japanese press say about such a parameter as the presence in the troops?

    and even a plus to this is at least one participation (direct) in battle ... all sorts of couch experts write ....
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  16. -6
    1 February 2023 16: 33
    Quote: kor1vet1974
    And how much is Armat today?

    Looks like they stopped production altogether.
  17. -1
    1 February 2023 16: 38
    As Japanese experts write, even if the car is destroyed, the crew will remain alive.

    Are they definitely Japanese and not British?
  18. 0
    1 February 2023 16: 40
    And I remember "Trampoline" had a hand in this armata
    Here Rogozin, aka Trampoline, promises in 12 that we will have armata that will be produced from 15 and mass-produced in 17.
    https://info.sibnet.ru/article/326380/
    At 17, he promises that Armata will be at 18
    https://vpk.name/news/175517_rogozin_armata_prevoshodit_izrailskie_amerikanskie_i_evropeiskie_tanki.html
    But again at 17 he promises that there will be Armata, but already in 19
    https://topwar.ru/118508-rogozin-o-zapuske-t-14-armata-v-seriyu.html
    He promised back in 17 that they were about to start! Maybe it’s because of such liars that everything is so hard for us and it’s going on, for years they’ve been rubbing to the Supreme that we’re about to have our own starlink, armata, radio stations, distorted the data, misled everyone, and at the same time they themselves rode at the expense of the state like cheese in butter .
    1. +2
      1 February 2023 16: 55
      And I remember "Trampoline" had a hand in this armata
      Here Rogozin, aka Trampoline, promises in 12,

      How could he from Transnistria? In April 12, he was the special representative of the President in Pridestrovye.
      1. -1
        1 February 2023 17: 18
        "In 2017, the Russian Army will receive a tank with Stealth technology: on April 21, I visit Uralvagonzavod and its tank training ground. Beware!" - RIA Novosti quotes Rogozin's entry in the microblog on Twitter.
        Follow the link, check
        https://dni.ru/society/2012/4/13/231493.html
        Publication from 12 years. So it means he worked like a tongue grinder. A liar. Already for 5 years, according to Rogozin's promises, the enemies should cost "Beware of Armata". It would be nice if there was a journalist, there is no demand from them, but the person responsible for all this ...
        1. +4
          1 February 2023 17: 38
          A liar .... It would be nice if there was a journalist, there is no demand from them, but the person responsible for all this ...

          Well, he loves to ramble. So he is a journalist. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. And MSU is for life. Publicity and talkativeness - they were taught that way. He got a shrapnel in the back for it.
    2. -1
      1 February 2023 17: 09
      Nevertheless, the Poseidons shipped. Daggers with zircons slap. For liars and thieves, execution would be introduced. Things would go faster and we would not be upset crying
      1. +2
        2 February 2023 07: 55
        Then almost ALL the Kremlin leadership falls under the article wassat . We don’t raise the Supreme for our retirement age, we don’t touch the constitution, I don’t hold on to power, they don’t, they don’t, mobilization is not required, and so on. There you can publish lies in volumes
    3. Alf
      +1
      1 February 2023 20: 06
      Quote: Patriot228
      rubbed the Supreme for years

      But he still believes, believes, and does not dare to ask the storytellers ... What a gullible person, one word is safe ...
  19. +3
    1 February 2023 16: 43
    How can you write about all the parameters. And does it surpass in the number of issued ones?
    The comparison is very biased. If you release all leopards 2 against armata in one field, I don’t think that the latter will win
  20. +1
    1 February 2023 16: 49
    "Who will win: Trudovik or Fizruk?" winked
  21. -3
    1 February 2023 16: 50
    The cunning Japanese are hinting that we need to increase the production of Almaty, and the Breakthrough type against Leopards and Abrams does not work. Gentlemen of the Japanese, thanks for the advice, but we ourselves will figure out what we need.
  22. +2
    1 February 2023 16: 51
    Japanese press: Russian tank T-14 "Armata" surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects

    Acre quantity.
  23. +3
    1 February 2023 16: 51
    why compare something that doesn’t exist, that’s when the number of T-14s exceeds at least 1000, when it will be possible to compare, but for now this is a demonstration copy
    1. +3
      1 February 2023 16: 53
      And why is there no "Armata"? I found an article here
      https://rg.ru/2017/06/20/rogozin-armata-pojdet-v-serijnoe-proizvodstvo-posle-2019-goda.html
      They write that the arms program provides for 2000 vehicles until 2020. Just so they took it and spit on everything and no one was held responsible?
    2. 0
      1 February 2023 17: 43
      exceeds at least 1000,

      what for, for comparison, there are so many, there are so many lekrerks and they didn’t make so many challenges.
  24. +3
    1 February 2023 16: 55
    The T-35 was also great and terrible, and I think they also wrote various odes about it, including in the foreign media of those years. And then the Soviet-Finnish happened.
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    2. Alf
      0
      1 February 2023 20: 10
      Quote: Knell Wardenheart
      The T-35 was also great and terrible, and I think they also wrote various odes about it, including in the foreign media of those years. And then the Soviet-Finnish happened.

      But the T-35 did not participate in the S-F war ... But the T-28 showed itself well there.
  25. -1
    1 February 2023 17: 27
    Of course, there are a lot of leopards and the tank is serious in terms of performance characteristics, but what is their experience against the serious armies of the world? If not now to run in Armata, then when ..
    1. +2
      1 February 2023 17: 34
      I think back in 17 it was necessary to have time to eliminate the shortcomings in 3 years and start production, just in time for 2022 there would be several hundred working machines. Let me quote D.A. Medvedev "We need to talk less and do more." And we only chatted and engaged in all sorts of window dressing: rockets under Khokhloma, wars with Elon Maskov on Twitter, and so on, as they say, "They feasted, had fun, calculated, shed tears." The Supreme was obviously misled by court flatterers posing as patriots, who, for the sake of a career, were ready to promise him anything and "Armata" and "Apple Trees on Mars" and "Space Station" if only over this from the "sovereign treasury" at least a quarter of a trillion, otherwise the kids are hungry and there is nothing to make satellites from. More than once in the history of our country, this kind of betrayal has occurred, or at least remember the "Ryazan miracle" (an economic scam under Khrushchev, I recommend that all inquisitive people familiarize themselves). Unfortunately, the management decisions were made by the Supreme Commander with a delay. Covid helped many swindlers to justify themselves for "shifting the dates to the right." If it were not for the SVO, these abscesses would not have opened. And now everything can be seen at a glance, who promised what, everything can be checked, and instead of the weapons promised by the court talkers, zero to the mass.
    2. Alf
      0
      2 February 2023 17: 44
      Quote: Grandfather Mozai
      Of course, there are a lot of leopards and the tank is serious in terms of performance characteristics, but what is their experience against the serious armies of the world?

      This can be said about any modern tank.
  26. +8
    1 February 2023 17: 50
    Armata died without being born, is it interesting that they will carry this stuffed animal in parades or will they be ashamed?
  27. +2
    1 February 2023 17: 53
    Quote: _Ugene_
    Armata died without being born, is it interesting that they will carry this stuffed animal in parades or will they be ashamed?

    Before the parades, we would still live ...
  28. +1
    1 February 2023 18: 19
    This Japanese "analytics" is directed against the T-90.
    The message is this: here, they say, they have one tank that can outplay the Leopards. This is, like, the same Armata (the T-90 is not even considered point-blank). Although the hippos know perfectly well that there is no armata, this is zilch. The conclusion suggests itself: German tanks will stop there.

    According to the experience of Syria ... - over the years - the cases of the destruction of the T-90 are isolated. Despite the fact that there were hundreds of local skirmishes. But the Turks lost a dozen leopards in just one battle. And who? Kurds shot with slingshots ...
    1. -1
      1 February 2023 21: 07
      Quote: Ivanushka Ivanov

      According to the experience of Syria ... - over the years - the cases of the destruction of the T-90 are isolated. Despite the fact that there were hundreds of local skirmishes. But the Turks lost a dozen leopards in just one battle. And who? Kurds shot with slingshots ...
      Turks sent to Syria in 2016 Leopard 2A4TR 43pcs (two batches of 18 and 25pcs).
      The losses of the Turkish "Leopards" are associated with the inept use of tanks in battle and the poor organization of interaction between infantry units and tank units and the lack of organization for the removal of "wounded" "Leopards" from the battlefield - the immobilized tank was captured by ISIS - the Turks themselves destroyed such tanks with their Turkish aircraft.
      The Turks used tanks from permanent positions (caponiers), but poorly made fortifications did not protect the tanks - the tanks simply became targets for ATGMs.
      Most of the tanks were hit on the right side, due to the peculiarity of the positions of the tanks towards the enemy (ISIS).
      Also, the lack of support from the 155mm self-propelled guns from artillery led to losses, although the self-propelled guns themselves were present in the battlefields
      hi
      1. +1
        1 February 2023 21: 58
        )) I don’t understand, the women don’t know German, they couldn’t read the instructions - where you can shoot and where you shouldn’t ...
        I've heard something like this before...
  29. +1
    1 February 2023 21: 27
    Thank you, of course, the Japanese for the comparison, but we still won’t allow you to fish near the South Kuril Islands tongue .
    1. 0
      3 February 2023 02: 11
      However, most of the fish caught there ends up on the tables of the Japanese.
  30. +2
    1 February 2023 23: 05
    where leopards compete with an invisible tank
  31. +1
    1 February 2023 23: 13
    Quote: Patriot228
    And why is there no "Armata"? I found an article here
    https://rg.ru/2017/06/20/rogozin-armata-pojdet-v-serijnoe-proizvodstvo-posle-2019-goda.html
    They write that the arms program provides for 2000 vehicles until 2020. Just so they took it and spit on everything and no one was held responsible?


    because this is the principle of "jerks and breakthroughs" for the public
    there, by definition, no one can be punished
  32. -1
    2 February 2023 08: 49
    Leopards will probably get into the APU. But will ours have the same number of Armats?
    A link to the Japanese edition - does this mean that the author of the news did not study any other foreign sources of information? Or did the Germans, Britons, Americans not compare the declared characteristics?
  33. +3
    2 February 2023 12: 14
    The one who sees farther and better, and not the one with stronger armor, will win. Although, armor is also important, but if they see you a kilometer further, you are dead.
  34. 0
    2 February 2023 16: 39
    It excels in all respects except for one, the presence in the troops.
  35. 0
    2 February 2023 18: 56
    Tiny nuance. Leopard 2 is in service, there is no Almaty.
  36. 0
    3 February 2023 01: 53
    How can you compare armats that are absent in nature with leopards and other massive tanks ??
  37. 0
    3 February 2023 14: 17
    A simple comparison of the offensive and defensive capabilities of the two vehicles shows that the T-14 can defeat the Leopard 2 at long range, Japanese experts conclude. However, the real confrontation between Western MBTs and the Russian "Armata" may begin no earlier than the spring-summer campaign, the authors of the article believe, adding that the appearance of the latest Russian and modern Western tanks in itself will not create a turning point for either side.

    this will be the best test of all characteristics .....
  38. 0
    3 February 2023 15: 50
    Japanese press: The Russian T-14 Armata tank surpasses the German Leopard 2 in all respects.
    .
    In addition to the number and development in the troops. And also we do not know what jambs will come out during operation.
    .
    T-15 is an analogue of the Tiger from the Second World War. And for us, due to our poverty, today we need to rivet faustpatrons in millions and rely on thirty-fours.
  39. 0
    3 February 2023 16: 07
    Not tanks are fighting tanks, but states. Ideas, economics ... How many copies have already been broken about the superiority of German technology of the same German tanks on the fields of World War II. And yes: Tiger, Panther in individual confrontation burned Shermans, T-34s. But they were defeated by the Soviet, American, British workers. The Germans responded to 120 thousand (approximately) allied tanks with 20 thousand (~). And so it is with everything. It's a bad thing to compare only the characteristics.

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