how much maintenance do they need? do they last forever like semi truck engines do?
Are russian tank engines reliable?
Ryder Peterson
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Michael Carter
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They really aren't. From the earliest T-34s to the latest T-14, Russian tank building tradition has been one of ensuring that every tank that leaves the hallowed factories of Uralzvagonzavod breaks down permanently within the first 500km of travel. This makes sense from the Russian perspective as they have the logistical benefit of sheer numbers so replacing a tank is much cheaper than making a clearheaded and intelligent design in the first place.
If you only knew how many abandoned old Soviet tanks there are in my country,you'd be amazed.
Jaxon Allen
where do you guys buy your parts? is there a russian tank autozone do you just pry them off other abandoned tanks?
Levi Baker
The shitty training and lacking morale of the conscript crews probbably posed a bigger problem.
Ryder Cook
On their own, not too great. Overall, they're probably partly responsible for the biggest fuckup in the history of tank design.
>Be USSR
>Want new super tank
>Start on T-64
>Things coming along slow, but mostly okay
>Oh, wait. The 5TDF is shit.
>We'll fix it later
>Trials start
>The engine is shit
>We'll fix it later
>New trails
>The engine is shit
>We'll fix it later
>Higher-ups get fed up
>If you can't make a reliable engine, we'll find someone who can
>Go to Uralvagonzavod and Leningrad
>We want you guys to build us new tanks to compete with the T-64 and get those lazy fuckers to build a passable engine.
>T-72 and T-80 show up
>Cool, trials time
>Beurocrats can't decide who should win, so everybody wins
>USSR now has three MBTs, with varied parts, fuel needs, crew training requirements, etc.
Ironically, the T-80 would come to be demonized on account of it's gas turbine engine somehow being responsable for the many tank losses in Chechnya, despite the engine having really very little to do that and being actually pretty okay.
Robert Williams
>ronically, the T-80 would come to be demonized on account of it's gas turbine engine somehow being responsable for the many tank losses in Chechnya
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Ian Powell
Its a communist/Russian built and designed engine.Take a guess on how reliable it is
Zachary Perry
The same shit happened with their ICBM force. Multiple rocket designs from multiple design bureaus heavily dependent on parts from the west.
Leo Foster
That was only true in the 30s and 40s, when literally only America had good, cheap, reliable engines and transmissions. But since the Soviets just got old and took the Union with them like selfish cunts, they never updated the philosophy and became addicted to pointless busy work.
Mason Wood
Gas turbines really are fuel hungry, and really do require extra trainloads and fuel trucks. An Abrams for instance, if the engines were replaced today with diesels, would immediately have a range extension of 100miles. Immediately. That adds up a lot, and means something like a 1/3rd of the logistical fuel trucks become redundant.
Ryder Thomas
But diesels can be heard from farther away.
Ryder Allen
this reminds me of how they were parading their brand new tank design in Russia and the thing broke down in the middle of the parade and had to be towed. Any of you have that image?
Isaiah Reed
Do you think that turbine is quiet?
Ryder Moore
>if the engines were replaced today with diesels, would immediately have a range extension of 100miles
No, absolutely not. Diesels of comparable performance to turbines take up much more space that could be used for fuel cells, the problem is that the engine on the Abrams is based on 70s tech and hasn't been upgraded ever, or produced since the 90s.
Charles White
Yes
Logan Rivera
The Soviet fetish for high numbers was a nightmare for logistics.
Maintenance was forced to train and provide spare parts for a dozen of different tank types, most of them hopeless outdated.
Typical NATO standard in the Cold War was to have two different main battle tanks.
Justin Taylor
Juan Cox
Never happened.
Chase Turner
See youtube link in first post
Caleb Clark
I fucking laughed my ass off when they tried to claim that "it was 100% driver error". Poor bastard's probably top of his class and sitting down in the gaulage somewhere with his family now.
Isaac Garcia
Wartime engines are absolute ass.
Their quality control was non-exsistent.
Post-war engines are usually pretty good.
Hunter Wright
No
Justin Turner
The newest engine for the T-14 chassis.
And I can't see them being to much worse than British tank engines in the cold war, those were only rated for a few hours at full horsepower output as “tank battles only last this long”.
Henry Stewart
how the fuck is that possible? diesels last forever!
Liam Fisher
no they dont.
Parker White
Ryssian diesel tank engines are a marvel of technology. They aren't constructed, they come in existence by multiplying the venerable engine of T-34. The number (see X12) usually means how many T-34 engines was spawned and molded together for given model.
Cameron Gonzalez
They last until about halfway through the parade street.
Some sources say there are experimental models in development, that could travel all the way through, maybe even back to the mechanical depot.
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Oliver Lee
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