Can Russia s Deadly Armata Tank Survive an American TOW Missile?
Let’s compare the TOW’s characteristics with the Armata’s defensive capabilities and see what sparks they throw together.
Here s What You Need to Know: The T-14 appears to boast some decent defenses against the TOW.
Time to consider matchmaking Russia’s favorite new Armata tank with America’s ex-favorite antitank missile, the TOW!
Yes, you heard that last part right, the TOW has been sold all over the world but America’s starry eyes of antitank love have wandered to greener pastures. Ever since the United States military began deploying the top-attack Javelin missile in the mid-1990s, it’s been handing them out like alcopops at a bachelorette party to its frontline troops nearly every infantry squad has a few it can call its own.
China’s Type 15 Light Tank Matters for Asia’s Future Wars
The tank will let China deter its neighbors in harder-to-reach places such as the contested border with India.
China is arming its land forces with greater numbers of a new Type 15 lightweight mobile tank platform intended to operate in the high-altitude plateau areas of Western China. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command has commissioned its first Type 15 tanks.
“Compared with the PLA’s Type 96 and Type 99 tanks, the Type 15 is of lighter weight, boasts better mobility in high altitude regions with low oxygen levels, and is more suitable for plateau combat, CCTV said,” a story in the Chinese government backed Global Times reports.
According to a video released on Facebook, January 16, 2021, AW-159 Wildcat helicopter from the South Korean navy has recently conducted a live firing exercise with the launch of Spike NLOS missile against a surface target.
According to a video released on Facebook, January 16, 2021, AW-159 Wildcat helicopter from the South Korean navy has recently conducted a live firing exercise with the launch of Spike NLOS missile against a surface target.
South Korean Navy conducts live firing of Spike NLOS missile from AW159 Wildcat naval helicopter. (Picture source South Korean TV)
The AW159 Wildcat is a naval helicopter manufactured by the company AgustaWestland and used to conduct search and rescue and anti-surface warfare missions. The AW159 is in service Philippines, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
The Israeli Army has seen combat every decade since its founding, so it knows its weapons.
Much like the Israeli Air Force, the Israeli Army came from humble but more established beginnings. Israel’s ground forces had their origins in the Haganah, a Zionist paramilitary force created in the early 1920s to protect Jewish interests.
The Haganah cooperated with British authorities but turned hostile in 1944 when the Axis neared defeat and the need for a Jewish state became increasingly clear. In 1947 the Haganah was reorganized into regular army units, and renamed the Israeli Army two weeks after the founding of the State of Israel.
The military may well acquire hundreds of the high-advanced new Abrams variant.
The Army is making a massive, $4.62 billion buy of the emerging, upgraded variant of the Abrams tank, signaling continued confidence in the value of heavy armor and bringing a wide sphere of new combat attack-enhancing technologies.
The concept with the M1A2SEPv3 Abrams variant is to bring new technologies, firepower, computing, high-fidelity sensing and survivability systems to the decades-old platform, to essentially re-engineer it in some ways into a new tank. The current upgraded Abrams, for instance, is much different in terms of combat performance than the original tank which first emerged in the 1980s.