T-95 and 640 Object

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In September 1997, the first public demonstration of the main combat took place in Omsk tank the new generation of the Black Eagle (Object 640). A tank with a tower, carefully covered with a shaggy camouflage net, was shown by a guest at a distance of 150 meters and from strictly defined angles. According to the developers of the “Black Eagle”, in terms of its combat qualities, it surpasses the best Western vehicles - M1A2 “Abrams”, “Leclerc”, “Leopard-2”, “Challenger-2” - and today it is the strongest tank in the world. It has a higher combat survivability, better crew protection, more powerful weapons, and a modern information complex.

T-95 and 640 Object


Externally, the tank hull differs little from the hull of the serial T-80U: the same location of the rollers, the driver's hatch, and the active protection modules. The use of the seven-base base indicates the relationship of the “Black Eagle” with the tanks of the previous generation, and this will greatly facilitate its mass production and simplify operation in the troops.



The most significant difference from the T-80 is a welded turret of a fundamentally new type (a full-size model with a “standard” product configuration was demonstrated on the tank), which has a high level of protection. In its size and configuration, it resembles the towers of the western tanks of the last generation. Automated ammunition is separated from the combat compartment by an armored partition, which significantly increases the security of the crew. Earlier, in the Russian tanks, the drum of the automatic loader was located under the lightweight polycom of the combat compartment, therefore the explosion of the ammunition set led to the inevitable death of the crew, which was confirmed by the sad experience of the war in Chechnya. The adopted layout decision made it possible to reduce the height of the “Black Eagle” in comparison with the T-80 on the 400 mm, thus making it the lowest tank in its class.



The horizontal position of the ammunition in the stern of the turret allows the use of longer, and hence more powerful armor-piercing sub-caliber ammunition, and also simplifies the process of automatic loading and increases the rate of fire. Large angles of inclination of the frontal sheets of the tower provide more reliable protection when firing a tank with armor-piercing sub-caliber shells. It is assumed that the installation of the 152-mm gun is possible on the Black Eagle, but according to Western experts, the gun mounted on the tower’s mock-up has a caliber of the order of 135 — 140 mm.



The on-board information system of the Black Eagle provides control over all the main systems of the vehicle, as well as automated information exchange with other tanks and higher-level commanders.
The tank is equipped with a new gas turbine engine with more than 1500 hp. and has a combat weight of about 50 t. As a result, the power density exceeds 30 hp / t, which is a record figure. As a consequence of this, the dynamic characteristics of the Black Eagle should be significantly superior to those of third-generation Western tanks with a specific power 20 — 25 hp / t.



The design bureau of transport engineering (KBTM) patented the Black Eagle tank in the Eurasian Patent Office, which was shown for the first and last time on HTTV-1997 wrapped in a camouflage net. Then the show was unauthorized, now the armored vehicle is disclosed for any request to the patent office.

T-95 Tank



One of the options for the layout of a promising tank

All the technical characteristics, appearance and features of the layout of the "95 object" still remain secret. However, some experts, especially foreign ones, already have a certain idea of ​​the new car. The mass of the T-95 is about 50 tons, the length and width, apparently, will be about the same as that of the T-72, T-80 and T-90 in service. Experts believe that to achieve the necessary mobility in modern combat, the tank must be equipped with a gas turbine engine with a capacity of more than 1250 horsepower, which is being developed by the serial GTE-1250. There is no finished diesel engine of comparable power in Russia. The tank, apparently, will receive a new suspension, providing greater smoothness.

However, the main "highlight" of the new machine is a completely new layout of the combat compartment. The gun on the "95 object" is located in a small uninhabited tower. Traditional for Russian tanks of the last thirty-plus years, the automatic loader of a new design is located under the turret. The jobs of the crew of three - the driver, the gunner operator and the commander - are placed in a special armored capsule, fenced off by an armored bulkhead from the automatic loader and the turret. This solution allows not only to reduce the silhouette of the tank, i.e. make it less noticeable on the battlefield, but also significantly protect the crew.

The new layout allows us to overcome the main contradiction of modern tank building - the need to combine reliable protection with mobility and transportability. In the West, the dilemma could not be overcome, therefore modern NATO’s MBT - MHNUMXA1 Abrams, Leopard-2, Leclerc - weigh over 2 tons. With such a mass, it is sometimes impossible to use them outside the area prepared for engineering. Significantly difficult and the transfer of these monsters through the air. Russia went a different way, donating the thickness of armor while simultaneously installing on the T-60 and T-80 systems of optical-electronic suppression of anti-tank weapons. However, such a decision, given the increase in the effectiveness of anti-tank weapons, sooner or later had to lead tank construction to a dead end.

To solve the problem, it was necessary to radically change the layout of the tank, as experts have been talking about for twenty years. However, in the West the matter did not move further than conversations and conceptual designs, and Russian designers made the first revolution in tank design. A sharp reduction (primarily due to the withdrawal of the crew from the tower) of the internal space, which must be reliably booked, allows us to ensure a previously unattainable level of security without going beyond the weight limitations associated with the carrying capacity of bridges, wheeled transporters and airplanes.

Judging by expert reports, the second most serious problem of modern tank building was solved within the framework of the “95 object”, due to the fact that the power reserves of existing tank guns with a caliber 125 mm (in Russia) and 120 mm (in the West) are completely exhausted. In particular, the domestic 2А46, mounted on T-72 and T-80, fully justifies itself in the conduct of hostilities in Chechnya, but it does not have enough muzzle energy to confidently destroy promising foreign tanks. Possible caliber T-95 guns - 135 mm. This is a completely new artillery system. Apparently, it will remain smooth-bore. Abroad, in particular, in Israel, the possibility of equipping the next generation tanks with 140 mm guns is being studied.

The hull of the car and the tower will be made of composite armor, also covered with active third generation armor. It is possible that the T-95 will be equipped with an active protection system created on the basis of the existing Arena.

Experts believe that the tank will receive a new fire control system (FCS). Information about the target will be received via optical, thermal imaging, infrared channels, it will include a laser rangefinder and, possibly, a radar station. It should be noted that the new layout makes very stringent requirements for the SLA, since the crew is deprived of the opportunity to use traditional optical instruments. Western projects of tanks with an uninhabited turret provide that information about the situation on the battlefield will be displayed on screens that will create for the crew the effect of seeing through armor in any direction. It is not yet clear how this problem will be solved in new Russian tanks, since Russia traditionally lags behind in the modern means of integrating and displaying information.
An analysis of open information indicates that T-95 is substantially superior (at least in some aspects) to everything that has been created or will be created in the next few years in the West.


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    1. Joker
      0
      30 July 2011 12: 24
      The appearance of the name "Black Eagle" is interesting.

      The tank was called the Eagle, but what about the black ... just at that time there was no other paint.
      (according to one of the developers)

      wink
      1. 0
        30 July 2011 18: 50
        The black eagle tank is a good car, but outdated, this is just the latest upgrade of the T-80U. The exact name is T-80UM2 Black Orel. This was the last attempt by the Omsk plant to receive orders for tanks. But alas.
        Object 195 I heard turned out to be a very expensive project.
        I hope the developments from the black eagle and object 195 will be implemented in the new combat platform ARMADA or ARMATA.
        1. +2
          15 February 2017 22: 59
          The Black Eagle is probably a really good car.
          Is “Almaty” better? I don’t know. Too much data is classified.
          But Armata is not only a tank. The main feature is the PLATFORM for a whole galaxy of military equipment. Tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, anti-aircraft guns, all kinds of support vehicles will only multiply.
          Unification will increase reliability, speed of repair, reduce cost.
          So it’s right that they preferred Armata.
        2. +1
          29 March 2018 09: 09
          Quote: Esso
          The black eagle tank is a good car, but outdated, this is just the latest upgrade of the T-80U. The exact name is T-80UM2 Black Orel. This was the last attempt by the Omsk plant to receive orders for tanks. But alas.
          Object 195 I heard turned out to be a very expensive project.
          I hope the developments from the black eagle and object 195 will be implemented in the new combat platform ARMADA or ARMATA.

          You guessed it! Bingo! Amata is, March 2018.
    2. Joker
      +6
      30 July 2011 12: 33
      Errors:

      "object 95"

      - correct object 195

      Russia went the other way, sacrificing the thickness of the armor while installing opto-electronic anti-tank systems on the T-80 and T-90.

      - The thickness of the armor of modern Russian tanks exceeds that of Western tanks.


      Judging by the reports of experts, within the framework of "Object 95" it was possible to solve the second most serious problem of modern tank building, due to the fact that the power reserves of existing tank guns with a caliber of 125 mm (in Russia) and 120 mm (in the West) are completely exhausted.

      - the power reserve of the 125-mm guns has not yet been exhausted (the charging chamber of our guns in volume exceeds the similar indicators of the 120-mm guns).

      On the object 195 a couple of articles:

      THE LATEST TURN OF THE SOVIET TANK-BUILDERS
      http://btvt.narod.ru/bokser/bokser_1.htm

      "Object 195" Reflections on the possible appearance of a promising Russian tank
      http://btvt.narod.ru/3/t-95.html
    3. +1
      31 July 2011 01: 22
      He would also have balls on chains, visually merkava will turn out on the case of the t-72, by the way, what they crammed such an automatic machine into the tower of an acre?
    4. +3
      31 July 2011 01: 44
      Killed in the film: the tank’s war was revealed by the war in Chechnya ... Guderian also said that the tank should enter the city with motorized infantry after art and air strikes and reconnaissance. And not as it was, infantry separately - boxes separately, or together, but without the above 2 and 3 conditions for entering the equipment into battle.
      1. LESHA pancake
        +5
        31 July 2011 16: 03
        if the commander is a fool then no cool technique in battle will help
    5. brodiaga78
      0
      31 July 2011 17: 05
      looks a lot like an Israeli merkava, and it's a pity that "in September 1997 they showed in Omsk," and not "starting from 97th, a new car began to enter the troops ..."
    6. - = 999 = -
      +1
      6 August 2011 01: 25
      I read for * ORELIKA * several articles, for the most part I think this is a stand of ideas and dreams. with a full set of roads, the Duma will not live happily, and if without minced meat then T-72,90 is better.
    7. zczczc
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      25 August 2011 16: 03
      The author of this dock would know. film, what Serdyukov will then say about our tank: (((
    8. 0
      4 November 2011 19: 09
      Serdyuk shit and our tank honey !!!
    9. Ilya Gurenko
      0
      21 March 2013 16: 16
      Happiness and good luck to our designers good and sirdyugov ****** No.
    10. niku22
      0
      23 March 2013 13: 42
      good tank excellent weapons. armor
      speed soldier
    11. +2
      4 May 2014 12: 02
      Personally, my sympathies are on the side of the T-95. They disowned him for the most far-fetched reason - he is dear, you see. As long as the deputy, dealing only with verbiage, will receive more miner with his daily mortal risk at work, the situation will not change.
    12. YUR_VAS
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      22 November 2014 10: 13
      Armata hurries to take a place under the Sun ....)))
      http://stockinfocus.ru/2014/11/21/armata-protiv-leoparda-novyj-russkij-tank-vnek
      onkurencii /
    13. +1
      19 January 2017 22: 49
      In my opinion, the T-95 Black Eagle (640 object) is a concept tank. He did not go into the series, but surely in Armata he used the achievements, for example, a seven-track chassis, in Almaty seven rinks. I am very confused by the tower of Almaty and, as a result, the location of the ammunition. Intuitively, the feeling that this is done better in the T-95, but little is known about Armata.
      1. 0
        26 September 2023 00: 58
        In my opinion, the T-95 Black Eagle (object 640) is a concept tank.

        vlad007, “Object 195” aka T-95 tank and “Object 640” aka “Black Eagle” tank are two completely different tanks.

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