AESA ??? you sure it has an AESA ?
Can you elaborate a little what useful an AESA might be on a tank, Thanks.
According to preliminary reports, the new tank designated
T-14 will be less radical and ambitious than the canceled ‘Object 195’ or T-95. It will weigh less, therefore being more agile and more affordable when compared to its more ambitious predecessors. Additionally, the
T-15,
Kurganets-25 IFV and
Bumerang IFV will be able to equip the same 30mm
Epoch Remote Control Turret.
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The tank will have an unmanned, remotely controlled turret. It will be digitally controlled by a crew-member located in a separate compartment. It is believed that this would eventually lead to the development of a fully robotic tank.
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Vehicles of the Armata platform will be equipped with the radar and other technologies found on the
Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation jet fighter. They include a
Ka band radar (26.5–40 GHz) based on
AESA radar. The devices should be ready by 2015.
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According to preliminary reports, the new tank designated
T-14 will be less radical and ambitious than the canceled ‘Object 195’ or T-95. It will weigh less, therefore being more agile and more affordable when compared to its more ambitious predecessors.
Vehicles of the Armata platform will be equipped with the radar and other technologies found on the
Sukhoi T-50 fifth-generation jet fighter. They include a
Ka band radar (26.5–40 GHz) based on
AESA radar. The devices should be ready by 2015.
[26]
Defense Update released their analysis of the tank, where they speculate that
Afghanit main sensors are the four panels mounted on a turret's sides, which are probably the AESA radar panes spread out for the 360° view, and possible one more on top of the turret.
[37] In their opinion, the active part of the system it consists of both a hard kill and a soft kill elements, first of which actively destroys the incoming projectile (such as a dumb rocket or artillery shell), while the second confuses the guidance mechanism of
ATGMs and such, causing it to lose the target lock. They believe that it would be effective against most modern ATGMs, including
Hellfire,
TOW,
Javelin,
Spike,
Brimstone,
JAGM, etc.
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Afghanit hard-kill launchers are the long tubes mounted in groups of five between the turret's front sides and the chassis.
[14] These send out an electronically activated charge that shoots an
Explosively Formed Penetrator towards the target (in all directions).
[38] Aside from that, the tank is also equipped by the
NII Stali's Upper Hemisphere Protection Complex,
[39] which consists of two steerable cartridges with 12 smaller charges each, and a turret-top VLS with two more similar cartridges.
[40] It probably corresponds to the
Defense Update soft-kill system.
[37] Additionally, using AESA radar and anti-aircraft machine gun it is possible to destroy incoming missiles and slow-flying shells (except
hypersonic kinetic energy penetrators).
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