Comments on: Possible tier 6/7 Soviet LT: the Gavalov tank

By: LoserDestiny

LoserDestiny — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:48:03 +0000

My goodness! Stop posting shit.
“Effectively, the driver was sitting on the turret axis and the whole thing rotated around him. The driver was also sitting above the rest of the crewmembers, looking out via a roof-mounted periscope, which was also stabilized. ”
This is completely mistranslated and besides of that fully ridiculous. The part when the driver sits on the axis of the turret. You might have noticed, there is actually a TOP VIEW of the tank, and in the middle of the turret there is clealy THE GUN! The driver sits an the front right side of the turret. His seat, along the the periscope mounted in the hatch/cupola is indeed rotated contrary to turret rotation, so that the driver always faces forward.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:56:54 +0000

IIRC they also gleefully made use of similar restrictions for their space program, since they could thus get by with that much smaller crew modules and every kilogram counts going up the gravity well.

By: Taavi

Taavi — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:17:08 +0000

Red Army had a height limit for the tank crews, don’t recall the exact number, but perhaps it was 164 cm. Long story short, all their tankers were short. (pun not intended… maybe)

By: Iron_Tsunami

Iron_Tsunami — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:19:33 +0000

So the T-100 is a light tank? TIER VIII PLZ!

By: Jiri_Starrider

Jiri_Starrider — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:29:44 +0000

Given the URL of the article, was this a real project? Or something made up to support a neat looking model….

By: Silentstalker

Silentstalker — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:20:19 +0000

I think so, yes. And yea, I know I am sometimes using “russisms” (russian words translated the way Russians use it) in English, sorry for that.

By: Okinoshima

Okinoshima — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:15:26 +0000

Well to be fair the ELC AMX also had a 360 degree turret as well, but it could only turn when stopped, the Soviets in this case found a pretty ingenious solution to that problem though

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:01:19 +0000

BTW SS, I think the word you’re looking for is “contra-rotating” – “stabilisation” tends to mean something different. Didn’t the early and rather out-there concept drafts for the T110E3 have something similar…?

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:58:42 +0000

With the kind of manpower base the Red Army drew on finding sufficient numbers of short enough tankers ought not have been a major problem.

By: Woras

Woras — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:48:14 +0000

It does not.
Lol, that thing has a spoiler?