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| Object 775: the tank that never was |
| 2024-07-02 |
| Direct Transation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from a V Kontakte post by Informant. The tank looked like one of the tanks in the miniatures wargame Twight 2000 from Special Forces Post from a subscriber: Object 775 is an experimental missile tank. The layout of the tank "Object 775" was a general layout of the tank with a crew of two people(commander-operator and driver-mechanic) in a rotating turret and aft MTO location. In the front part of the turret there was a single launcher for guided missiles and unguided rockets and a paired 7.62-mm PKT machine gun. The launcher is recoilless, closed type. When using the Rubin ATGM, screw rifling was made in the tube for launching the NURS, of which four deeper rifling were used to launch the guided missile. When using the Astra ATGM, the tube had similar screw rifling for the NURS and two longitudinal grooves for launching the guided missile. On the end side of the breech of the launcher there was a mechanism for ejecting pallets through a hatch in the roof of the turret after bringing the system to the loading angle and opening the breech wedge. According to the requirements, the tank's ammunition loadout was to include 24 guided missiles or 48 NURS, which were supposed to be placed in the loading mechanism. Either one guided missile or two NURS were placed in the same cell (pipe) of the conveyor, since the length of the NURS was equal to half the length of the missile. Object 775 never entered mass production. |
| Posted by:badanov |