I read an article on american/British/European tank design, ...

... compared to Soviet/Russian tank design.

The Abrams has a larger turret design compared to the Russian designed turrets.

The Abrams tank's larger turret does present a larger target area compared to the Russian tank, but it allows the ammo to be stored in an area physically isolated from the crew. The ammo area also has blow out panels which direct an ammo explosion away from the crew.

The Russian turret is much smaller and lower providing a smaller target area. However it also causes the ammo to be stored in a ring inside the crew compartment. If a projectile penetrates the Russian tank hull, all that ammo does not provide for crew longevity.

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Posted: 04/18/2022 at 9:34PM

Interesting technical analysis of Moskva fire -- reconhokie 04/18/2022 6:13PM

I read an article on american/British/European tank design, ... -- Atlee Hokie 04/18/2022 9:34PM

Ih ANY projectile penetrates a tank hull the crew is dead. -- HokieJay 04/19/2022 11:36AM

The Russians have transitioned to "auto-loaders" -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2022 09:18AM

Slightly faster, especially over time... -- Burruss Writer 04/19/2022 11:31AM

The Russian military... -- Stockleybridge 04/18/2022 9:09PM

That seems to be the norm with Soviet / Russian armed countries -- Vienna_Hokie 04/19/2022 07:08AM

I read that the weapon that destroyed it... -- Chris Coleman

04/18/2022 8:55PM

Seems they caught them with their nickers down... -- Burruss Writer 04/19/2022 11:36AM

“Out kicked the coverage” like Colin Jost did? -- Rinoki21 04/18/2022 9:13PM

No idea on their ship construction. -- EDGEMAN 04/18/2022 9:12PM

I did watch hunt for Oktabyr Krasnaya ** -- reconhokie 04/18/2022 10:12PM

That ship air defense is 3 or 4 layers deep. It sure seems like the CO had -- ColoVT82 04/18/2022 7:49PM

Post incident photos of air defense radar showed it to be not operational -- Burruss Writer 04/19/2022 11:39AM

Yep ** -- ColoVT82 04/19/2022 1:19PM

Russian ships air defense is not that capable -- ShockWaveVT 04/18/2022 9:26PM

Its really hard to sink a 12kt cruiser with 2x150kg HE w/heads. Training -- ColoVT82 04/19/2022 07:59AM

Fire on board is a sailor's worst nightmare. ** -- Atlee Hokie 04/18/2022 9:23PM

Everyone goes through "shipboard firefighting," even the aviators -- EDGEMAN 04/19/2022 09:20AM

I thought it was burning while urinating after a few days at port. TIC ** -- MP4VT2004 04/18/2022 11:02PM

Ukranian Babushkas DNE Bang Kok Go-Go Girls. At least not the ones in the -- reconhokie 04/19/2022 06:15AM

Hate military vehicles of any kind in combat. Will jump out of all of them.** -- reconhokie 04/18/2022 10:08PM

Understand. Just, on a ship there isn't a good place to jump. -- Atlee Hokie 04/18/2022 10:50PM

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