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Originally Posted by btimbit
Still a good chance it'll be just like the T-14. All the grand plans, a crazy design, but no money to execute it without foreign sales, and nobody else is buying. The Russians seem to have lost their main quality of the past; cost-effectiveness. Chinese won't buy any because they can produce something better, cheaper.
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I actually like a lot of design features on the T-14, though I've never been crazy about the Russian reliance on an auto loader which at best is a cranky thing.
If they can get the Afghanit system figured out, it could be a very hard tank to kill.
The idea of a maximum crew protection capsule is very smart as well.
The biggest problem though with Russian tanks is their first hit capability. The M1-A1 has that in spades.