Truth be told, any armored vehicle doesn't have to retire at all. As long as it's still moving, your army would always be able to use it. The only reason why armies retire older vehicles, is so that they don't get shamed. The world oldest tank was literally used up until recently in Afghanistan the FT17. M60 is a great tank. Doesn't have to retire... ever.
@@cherrypoptart2001 Yes, when you have no other choice you have to use what you have. The situation of the Altay project is unclear since there is no engine. Germany won't sell them to Turkey and the domestically produced South Korean engine has been rejected by Korean generals due to technically insufficiency. Turkey was planning to buy these Korean engines but it looks like they're off the table too. Turkey was trying to build their own domestically produced tank engine but that project failed too. Sad...
@@korana6308 Hey Bob, there's a guy that say as long as a tank is running, we're good. Crank the Mark-1 tank line back up! Just put some reactive armor and dazzlers on it so we can say it's been upgraded.
@@korana6308and as long as you don't care about that vehicles survivability, how obsolete it is, and how reliable it is you can field entire armies of scrap metal.
Russian T-55 : So they still giving you upgrades huh ?.. Iranian M60 : Yep !! I reckon I’ll fight another 60 years give or take …. Donbass T-34 : What’s up Comrades
They took several features which the internet thinks are menacing and put them on the tank. This is half of another Qaher-313 situation. You can even see where they copied the painted on shapes of the KF51 Panther's shroud on that "gun shield", skirt design of the Abrams X. Shtora because of red eyes memes. An actual meme tank. Gaijin please.
@@FirstDagger Imagine being clown seeing Russia beat all of NATO in arms production and development plus jump Japan and Germany to the status of 3rd global economy by PPP and still being brainwashed into believing it's wEaK lol...
For me, 99% this is just a demonstrator. Most likely they will keep what is practical and throw away what is useless. That's mean the end product will looks quite bland compare to this.
From a geopolitical standpoint, upgrading M60s makes sense for Iran rather than wasting money on a handful of T-90S-spec tanks (Karrar). The most likely ground war for the Iranian Army is most likely an intervention in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, to deal with an insurgency, install a friendly regime or maybe fight a relatively minor skirmish with a peer army. These tanks (ideally) would never be facing Turkish Altays or Israeli Merkhavas, or even Saudi Abrams MBTs. Those wars would be fought by the rocket force, like the scud-duels during the Iran-Iraq war. Proxies with ATGMs, drones and artillery rockets fight Israel for Iran, so these tanks are 'good enough' for the Iranians. Anyhow, the bigger priority for Iran is its Missile/Drone arsenal, nuclear program or even air defence capabilities, rather than relative quality of its fairly large ground forces.
Any country should. And in fact, even in US, the M109 is so old and some variants in service is outdated to those from other countries like the K9, they still use it and upgrade it. That's why there is nothing bad about this, especially when the price is acceptable. If anything, I just think the Shtora-1 won't work anymore
Iranian here, can confirm the government is definitely catering to the aerospace engineering side of things a fair bit heavier, and like you pointed out, missiles and drones.
@@antek-sq8tl its arch nemesis shall be the M113 with 7 different types of composite armour stapled onto it from previous modernizations and 8 car engines in it (of course equipped with an M2HB on the top!)
The metal shroud is there for thermal management. A tank main gun is a hollow tube that's only supported at one end. As a result, sunlight will heat the part of the gun tube exposed to direct sunlight to heat up and expand slightly. This will cause a slight bend that can have a significant effect on accuracy. Keeping direct sunlight for hitting the gun tube beans that the tube will remain at a uniform temperature and no thermal bending will occur. Generally, this is achieved using fiberglass or sheet-metal tubes that fit over the gun tube. I suspect that the Iranians tried to use those sheet-metal designs to both do this and make the tank look more modern. However, the shrouds do not appear to be well connected to the barrel and repeated firing will likely damage them fairly quickly.
Huh? Sunlight is not a factor. The heat generated by firing the gun is greatly in excess of any thermal effect from sunlight. Steel thermal expansion is only 0.1mm per meter per degree C.
@@stevidente 'Thermal bending' is a factor. And it isn't the heat from firing that causes the issue. It's when the side facing the sun gets hotter than the side that shaded. Remember that a tank main gun is a tube that's only supported at one end. And that thermal expansion of metal is a thing. Oh and have you done the math as to exactly how much a 5C difference in temperature (and it is generally much higher) will change the direction the muzzle is pointing? And the effect this will have on accuracy at 2000 meters? And you of course are aware that you have just demonstrated that you have no experience on tanks.
@@colincampbell767 You are being ridiculous. The shield is nothing more then propaganda. It is an upgrade designed to gain publicity points for the Iranian army. Heat from the sun should not have any impact on the gun. Tank guns are not made from an ordinary steel like your average knife. And if the sun is an issue, then just wrap a camouflage net around the gun. Won't cost you anything extra, won't needlessly weigh down the tank and most important it has the same effect.
There's no reason for thermal sleeves to be angular battlefield 2142 looking sheet metal. The vast majority of them are round and wrapped around the tank barrel.
@@HannarrMontannarr by your standards, no books should be written anymore, call every thought will be stolen, no tech gadgets should be created since it will be a copy of a previous invention; nor basically anything material or theoretical could be made practical ... give me a brake for god sake, you westerners thing that you own everything and only you can make something of value, all while living on the back on the third world emigrants who have been basically the soul source of creativity and invention in your medical, educational and military fields. Educate yourself about the end of colonialism and how your politicians set the wheel in motion ever since then
This is a tested prototype, not the actual modernization. THE M60s will likely be modernized in stages which is what the 402 in the name is for. Creating different modernization classes like they did with the Chieftain.
@@advisorynoticeSorry, but you’re delusional. And this is nothing against Iran. They produce a lot of good arms. But they have neither the money nor the experience, expertise or facilities for either the numbers or effective upgrades on a tank this dated.
"Where did this abomination come from" Well son, it's about time I tell you about the exhaust ports and the barrels... You see, when a M60 and T-90 love each other very much... You get _this_
0:35 I know of a reason for the gun shield and it comes from WWII. During combat, the German panthers would get very hot barrels and when it would rain the metal at the top of the barrel would cool very quickly compared to the bottom which would warp the gun upwards slightly and throw it off zero. I dont know why I only heard it from a German report. Maybe its because their guns were so much longer than the allies (length equal 70 calibers of the gun) and that made them more susceptible to the light bending. This was solved post war by placing a shroud over the gun.
yeah but the issue with that theory is that Iran is a dry country same with Iraqi and any bordering country the gun shield probably is just there to make it look like something advanced
@@ilkeribrahim6541 Exactly, it's actually a Iaraeli modifcation based on the isrseli Sabre upgrade (yes even Türkiye uses israel military tech) But don't tell that to the Erdogan fans, they will be furious 😂
@@AquaNomad34 Bruh. This is M60T tank modernization you talking about lol. Even that tank has way more turkish system than Israeli now. The MZK turret was integrated on M60A3 and was developed by Roketsan. Totally different modernization on going on different tank variant.
Could it be that the metal sheath around the cannon barrel is an attempt to conceal the thermal signature of it? I'd imagine it gets pretty hot when it's used, and lights up on IR displays like a christmas tree for many more minutes afterwards, even more so than the rest of the tank.
Everyone was laughing at the Ukrainians when they used commercial drones to drop grenades. Everyone laughed at the Russians when they made the Tsar cope cage tank. Everyone was laughing at the US/NATO when they replaced the Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan after 20 years of war. Now, everyone is laughing at the Iranians for their M60 upgrade. It's not perfect, and technology is outpacing production and development, but you have to start somewhere. This is how you get "know-how."
I'll see you in 20years when they get their first stealth aircraft based off an F-5 only to be met with a fucking 500 mile range missile fired from a 6th Generation Bomber hybrid.
@@PeterMuskrat6968Lmao, at this rate Lockheed will produce a total of 10 6th gen aircraft for 3 trillion dollars and only 3 of the 10 will be airworthy. You can tell that I'm joking because the US cut all funding for 6th gen aircraft this year and has no plans to resume in the near future.
@@92HazelMocha Yeah same. I get all this videos in my recommended of the US and other supposed aircrafts... And I've lived long enough, to get hyped over certain pieces of vehicles or equipment only to later for them to get canceled etc. In reality... Not that many things actually end up being built at all due to different factors. And so you end up truly admiring things that'd actually materialized... The future of the 6th gen looks very murky...
The M60 Sabre (israeli modification with 120mm gun and add-on armor) used by Türkiye army, has Active Protection System (APS) from Ukraine, which make it one of the best protected tanks in active service today This upgraded M60 Sabre with APS and 120mm gun is up to date or even better than most othe tanks (because most other tanks in the world still don't have APS)
@@AquaNomad34 The Iranians upgrades (if you can even call them that) barely add any value to the tanks surviveability largely because it still uses rolled steel armor from the 60s
@@AquaNomad34 What exactly are you smoking? The Sabra may be a decent M60 upgrade, but it's nowhere near actual modern MBTs, and certinly isn't "one of the best protected tanks in active service today". An APS system might help it against missiles, but it won't do anything against KE projectiles. So in the end, you have an M60A3 hull with a little bit of ERA that will get penetrated by essentially every full caliber APFSDS, including outdated rounds like 3BM15 or DM23. The turret might do a bit better with the added composite, but I still doubt it'll be very effective against modern or semi-modern darts, like 3BM46, DM53 or M829A2. It's internal crew protection also isn't great, as combat losses have shown much higher crew casualties per penetrating hit for Sabras than the Leopard 2A4s Turkey also uses. And while it has a decent gun, it's still an M60, so mobillity isn't exactly great. So in the end, while the Sabra upgrade may allow it to go toe to toe with upgraded T72As, an M60 is never going to stand up to a Leo2, M1A2 or T80BVM.
If we made this in US, i would laugh, but we have Abram X, the difference is, that tank look like it can dismantle all the bs component off, as in tomorrow it reaches a mechanised brigade, and the crew just dismantles all the unnecessary components off and request armor plates and other components.
Please RedEffect The Karrar does not have a new turret, there are images on the internet showing its a T-72 turret which has been modified, the photo you showed of the "new turret" has other photos associated with it showing the upgrade.
No , it actually got a new turret. there are two versions of the similar looking tank , The Karrar it self and the ghalavizan i think which is cheaper , the irgc got the karrar while the army is getting the ghalavizan. im not sure about the differences tho
@@mangoknight5035 I hate to disagree with you, Theres images from what looks like the same factory showing the Iranian t-72 turret receiving a an additional plate.and having a "hole" drilled between the two hatches on turret roof.
The gun shield is to even out the thermal exspansion, and minimize barrel droop, it is not armor. And actually not a bad idea, the British us a wrapped barrel, a thermal sleeve. The M1, well we have a MRS system.
The dazzlers are actually a good option, since most of the missiles used in the Middle East region are still SACLOS missiles which the dazzlsers work very effective against to deffend Modern Top-Attack missiles (like the Javelin) are still very rare in the Middle East region and not so likely to get in the hands of rebels, so in most civil war scenarios it would be a good option to protect the tank
Iran has manufactured its own state-of-the-art Karar main battle tank in large quantities. Given its advanced and as you mentioned costly nature , Iran prefers to reserve these tanks for conflicts with sophisticated adversaries like the US. Instead, it upgrades its older T-72 and M60 tanks for use against neighboring countries and proxies/terrorists that lack advanced weaponry. And is not designed for use against a serious adversary. This is a pretty smart strategy, especially when you look at Gaza war and how Israel is losing its most advanced tank by Hamas snick behind it and stick an explosive with magnet on its weakest part of body and get destroyed i bet they had an Iranian upgraded T72 and M60 tanks equipped with 360-degree awareness with Iranian auto targeting machine guns and advanced targeting systems for the tank itself, instead of using their most advanced, tank that intended for fighting with Iran not Hamas. These advanced tanks are the only ones with advanced targeting that they need, but they also have many expensive technologies to counter electronic warfare and other costly equipment, which are intended for advanced adversaries and are useless against Hamas. Iran strategy preserves the Karar tanks while repurposing older models that would otherwise be retired and scrapped, thereby benefiting the country. Given that you are already aware of Iran's capability to produce advanced new tanks (Karar), you would have seen this if you wernt blinded by hatred and your desier to belitile Iran Iran has produced its own cutting-edge Karar main battle tank in significant numbers. Due to its advanced and costly nature, Iran prefers to reserve these tanks for conflicts with sophisticated adversaries like the US. Instead, it upgrades its older T-72 and M60 tanks for use against neighboring countries and proxies or terrorists that lack advanced weaponry. These older models are not designed for use against serious adversaries. This is a particularly smart strategy, especially when considering conflicts like the Gaza war, where Israel has lost its most advanced tanks. Hamas has managed to sneak behind these tanks, attach explosives with magnets to their weakest points, and destroy them. If Israel had Iranian-upgraded T-72 and M60 tanks equipped with 360-degree awareness, Iranian auto-targeting machine guns, and advanced targeting systems, they might have fared better. Instead, Israel used their most advanced tanks, which are intended for fighting with Iran, not Hamas. These advanced tanks come with many expensive technologies to counter electronic warfare and other costly equipment, which are intended for advanced adversaries and are useless against Hamas. Iran's strategy preserves the Karar tanks while repurposing older models that would otherwise be retired and scrapped, thereby benefiting the country. Given that you are already aware of Iran's capability to produce advanced new tanks (Karar), you would have seen this if you weren't blinded by hatred and your desire to belittle Iran.
I dont think the tank was intended to go toe to toe with an abrams. it maybe designed for the local threats iranian military faces like rebels or taliban.
Most rebel groups have ATGMs that either have Tandem warhead or just a really good warhead. This thing has ZERO composites, and the copper spike/Jet would just melt through its steel. This thing is hair brained and idiotic.
@@PeterMuskrat6968The Taliban doesn't and it's their neighbor. Taliban stockpiles are mostly mid coldwar equipment, which this upgrade would actually prevent against
Barrell guard is to protect driver's helmet from melting to the hottest bit of the main gun while also functioning to help dump heat so the gun maintains accuracy.
The sheet metal shroud around the gun barrel, may be a heat shield to prevent sunlight from making the main gun overheat- which would reduce the barrel life (number of times the weapon may be fired, before one must replace the barrel), a real problem with older weapons- and/or shield the gun barrel from enemy infrared sensors. Whether or not these benefits are actually worth the cost in materials and in additional weight, is another matter.
@@cybernetic_crocodile8462 This is not exactly true High tech weapons definitely do matter, especially in todays military doctrine For example modern anti-drone tech has become very important to defend against drone swarms. Such as Laser weapon or Electronic counter-jamming device But not everoyne has good high tech with big numbers combined, like the USA
@@RevolverOcelot79Iran doesn't care about selling it. It's for their own security against enemy proxies and terr*rist groups that use old cold war era weapons that this tank can counter and is a better more creative option for Iran to modernise its old tanks compared to just putting them in storage. Iran's higher end Karrar tank would be the thing they'd use against enemies with modern weapons.
If you bother to use google for 3 minutes you will find out they have been sanctioned to all hell since 1979, thats why they still must rely on M60s, F-14's, AH-1's and such.
@@Amen6magi Even the fucking Israelified Eastern Bloc vehicles were still more effective and better out together than this literal abomination. This thing is too old to see active service, and the only reason it is kept around is so Iran can continue to play pretend regional power.
Honestly surprised they seem to still be using the M68 for the gun, You'd think they'd try and put a soviet gun of some sort into it instead. Idk if the 125mm would fit but maybe the older 100/115mm guns.
I’ll bet that cowling on the main gun barrel is either for radar (it’s prolly not very good at reducing radar signature) or it’s for thermal/IR (having an air gap with an outer skin will drastically reduce the signature of the super hot barrel after a few firings).
That tank would get easily destroyed in Ukraine. Drones would land on the back engine vents and blow it up easily. This is purely a show tank you see it on Parades and that's it, that why you have not seen it in Syria, Iraq, or in the Yemen conflicts.
I feel like they will have a better time reducing the amount of MBT types and focus on designing and building new MBTs. Doesn't matter indigenous or foreign its better for them to produce it locally and replace some foreign parts with locally made one
iran's use for it's tanks is against insurgents, in such a case you'd rather have more than a few fancy ones, insurgents are constantly on the move you want to cover up more areas if the insurgents are really capable of destroying your tanks they would destroy any tank regardless of the price
I understand that your evaluation is made in a general sense, but Iran's most likely adversaries are internal and regional (Afghanistan, not the gulf states). Both of those will not really have access to modern weapons. Even the yanks probably aren't stupid enough to send crates of modern weapons to Afghanistan again (although you never know). Do upgrades like the dazzlers make more sense there?
Every Cold War tank must be upgraded. An old tank cannot be thrown away. With a new engine, sensors and additional armor it is as good as any MBT. The war in Eastern Europe proved this.
@@Godaronful Well, T72 has many pimping up designs too which are utterly..useless. Mostly waste of taxpayers money, time and resources subjected to different levels of autocratic rulers.
That sheet around the cannon is to make it look both modern and futuristic. Kind of gives it a sci-fi railgun sort of look. Though thinking about it, it could have some practical use in passive heat dissipation, though probably not enough to be noticeable.
Like another person pointed out, the ground forces are not MEANT to pose a challenge to modern militaries (take for example Israel, the US, etc.) their "tactic" seems to be using their ground forces for skirmishes with insurgents or similarly armed, neighboring countries; and if they ever come face to face with their more modern opponents, using missiles and drones as their primary anti armor solution.
@@GuPKay Yeah however the task purpose guy saying ATGMs on a tank is useless is certainly propaganda, sure it doesn’t do much but it still can hit tanks. North Korea probably has a better tank than China atm
@Yisraelamundas I think it's very unlikely for NK to develop a tank that's better than China's, especially when China is more technologically advanced, richer, and less sanctions. I doubt Rus Federation and China would share their most advanced tech with NK anyway, since they're competing for export, making it even more unlikely for them to share with NK.
I worked a few years in Iran military manufacturing industry and let me tell you this. always assume the worst about the things that come out of the factory line. they barely spend any money on research and people in charge are selected based on their believes and loyalty to government and not based on talent. once I talked to a commander who was willing to bet his life that Russian tanks are using hardkill APTS and its the best thing in the world because he had seen a video and his ears were closed to any fact that you were presenting. also 90% of things you see Iran builds are for the sake of national audience who don't have access to true information. so when this commander (in video) says that this tank is one of the best in the world and news channels air it , most Iranian will believe it. they most likely make the modification to a few of the tanks to show on TV and then leave the project. Iran spends shyt ton of money on Militants groups on proxy wars and not that many on its actual army. love you videos and keep up the good work.
So the gun sleeves are supposed to break up the tank's thermal signature to make them harder to identify at range. But like the KF51, and every other prototype that has them, they won't end up in the production version because that technique doesn't work. Tank designers have been toying with the concept for about 20 years, and in 20 years they're always excluded from the production model.
It's possible the dazzlers are not the same as the dazzlers on the old T90 tanks, and are able to defeat modern ATGMs. If not, it's possible that the inclusion is to defeat older ATGMs fired from militia groups they are fighting against in the region. I don't think this tank upgrade is meant to be a pose any meaningful threat to Israel or the US, they invested heavily into drones, and ballistic missiles for that purpose. Russia's support of Iran also strengthened their air defenses with the S-400 SAM systems and Murmansk jammer systems. Iran is very far from Israel, so they wouldn't have any practical means to stage a ground invasion with tanks into Israel, so their tanks are likely intended to fight locally against militias, where these upgrades are good enough for that purpose.
Dazzlers will still work with ATGMs that do not have top down attack functionality. So it may fit into a more asymmetrical warfare doctrine of going up against less well equipped forces. The top down attack systems like the SPIKE, Javelin, HJ-12, Kornet-M will destroy any MBT on the planet as the top attack is the weak spot of every tank
The Trophy APS can actually intercept top attack missiles too The Hezbollah recently used a modern top attack missile against a israeli Merkava 4 and the Trophy APS detected and intecepted the missile successfully
Franken-Tank. Similar to a lot of soviet armor, it performs best against civilians, which I believe is it's actual intended purpose. War-fighting is just a tertiary application for the Iranians and their new tank
"it performs best against civilians" It was not intended for that, but yes, the Ukrainians use them alot to hunt civillians as they like to film themselves.
The extended shielding of the barrel or parts of it is meant as a radar-frustrating measure to both distort radar signature to conceal the tank's identity in the same way camouflage patterns are meant to disrupt the outline of a structure or vehicle to make it harder to recognize and identify, and to confuse ordnance using radar homing. It was originally explored by the IDF in the Merkava design but was dropped in later versions due to it having no tangible effect.
There are only one or two munitions which use radar for homing on a ground target such as tank, on the surface radar stealth does not make sense, that's why US never made the Comanche helicopter.
@@mehrdad4784 Right. And as the Israelis also found out. I notice the Russian army has a similar feature on some of their (officially presented) T-14 variants. It's more of a rhombe-shaped barrel than a sleave covering a rounded barrel. Probably that's where the Iranians got the idea for their shield-extended barrel shroud.
@@WormholeJimTo be fair tank designers have been toying with the shroud concept for years and it always gets scrapped. The original Karrar tank prototypes from like 8 years ago had them, but they were cut on the production tanks. In practice it seems like they always eventually decide it's not worth doing.
T-90 Patton isn't real, T-90 Patton can't hurt you
T-90 Patton:
Except M60 aren't Pattons in the first place.
@@FirstDagger It only adds glory to the joke
Since it also has Abrams X skirts, then the name should be T-690 X 👀
@@johnfoulke9241 MT-1A69X
Ye ole Dolly Patton
T90 meets M60.
Thought it looked like a fucked up merkava lol
T-69
Naa man that's the Turkish MZK Modular Turret.
Their unfaithful child
If M60 and T-90 had a child:
Confirmed 11.3 BR M60
It's worse than the Israeli ones, it only gets front ERA protection on the gun shield and no composite
gaijoobajooble when
They will make it a 7.0 premium for a couple months and say oopsie
I'd say 10.0
Military documents first(I'm from iran)
M60 getting upgrades by 20 different countries: please let me die
Truth be told, any armored vehicle doesn't have to retire at all. As long as it's still moving, your army would always be able to use it. The only reason why armies retire older vehicles, is so that they don't get shamed. The world oldest tank was literally used up until recently in Afghanistan the FT17.
M60 is a great tank. Doesn't have to retire... ever.
I believe turkeye is still developing a new upgrade for theirs
@@cherrypoptart2001 Yes, when you have no other choice you have to use what you have. The situation of the Altay project is unclear since there is no engine. Germany won't sell them to Turkey and the domestically produced South Korean engine has been rejected by Korean generals due to technically insufficiency. Turkey was planning to buy these Korean engines but it looks like they're off the table too. Turkey was trying to build their own domestically produced tank engine but that project failed too. Sad...
@@korana6308
Hey Bob, there's a guy that say as long as a tank is running, we're good. Crank the Mark-1 tank line back up! Just put some reactive armor and dazzlers on it so we can say it's been upgraded.
@@korana6308and as long as you don't care about that vehicles survivability, how obsolete it is, and how reliable it is you can field entire armies of scrap metal.
"Please let me rest."
-M60
maybe another 50 years
T-55: first time brother?
@@CruzHackettT34’s in the Middle East in the past 20 years:
*GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD*
M60: I'm Tired Boss
Israel m60 sabra
Russian T-55 : So they still giving you upgrades huh ?..
Iranian M60 : Yep !! I reckon I’ll fight another 60 years give or take ….
Donbass T-34 : What’s up Comrades
"Bro who stole his grave,can't even rest peacefully "
Donbass used a IS-3 at one point
Norh Korean T34-85 with t55 road wheels and "new radios" : Amateurs!
Can't improve perfection
@@aaroncruz9181 Can't have shit in Donbass region
They took several features which the internet thinks are menacing and put them on the tank. This is half of another Qaher-313 situation. You can even see where they copied the painted on shapes of the KF51 Panther's shroud on that "gun shield", skirt design of the Abrams X. Shtora because of red eyes memes. An actual meme tank. Gaijin please.
Probably just to get noticed so people start paying more attention to Iranian tank development and increase exports
@@yarnickgoovaerts Who are they going to export to? Yemen?
@@yarnickgoovaerts As with RUS it probably is for internal in country consumption to keep up the illusion that the regime isn't weak.
@@FirstDagger Imagine being clown seeing Russia beat all of NATO in arms production and development plus jump Japan and Germany to the status of 3rd global economy by PPP and still being brainwashed into believing it's wEaK lol...
Fr they said : let’s make the tank look futuristic not let’s make it a cheap but good upgrade
The gunshield does in fact have an important purpose: Recruiting.
It doesn't even look good though. I think it actually makes the tank look cheaper
but why do alot of prototype leopards, new panther and similar vehicles have a similar looking shields so do the kf41 and puma ifv?
@@meki___6881 prob for other actual use such as stealth or thermal but who knows
@@meki___6881 cause they were probably designed by pakies or hajis. Look at germany now.
But it could help cooling the barrel down, like the metal things on computer chips
For me, 99% this is just a demonstrator. Most likely they will keep what is practical and throw away what is useless. That's mean the end product will looks quite bland compare to this.
I hope the ditch the steel armor and add composite or era to the turret. Ive never seen an m60 with soviet style era
@@korana6308 Pretty much the Shtora-1.
this is just for home propoganda cuz everyone in Iran hates them
They’re probably just making it to sell to poor countries and make a quick buck in my opinion
And also for use as a propaganda tool
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M60: I’m tired boss
Israel m60 sabra
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@@Jeffrey-hu2gb M2 browning:
From a geopolitical standpoint, upgrading M60s makes sense for Iran rather than wasting money on a handful of T-90S-spec tanks (Karrar). The most likely ground war for the Iranian Army is most likely an intervention in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, to deal with an insurgency, install a friendly regime or maybe fight a relatively minor skirmish with a peer army. These tanks (ideally) would never be facing Turkish Altays or Israeli Merkhavas, or even Saudi Abrams MBTs. Those wars would be fought by the rocket force, like the scud-duels during the Iran-Iraq war. Proxies with ATGMs, drones and artillery rockets fight Israel for Iran, so these tanks are 'good enough' for the Iranians. Anyhow, the bigger priority for Iran is its Missile/Drone arsenal, nuclear program or even air defence capabilities, rather than relative quality of its fairly large ground forces.
Any country should. And in fact, even in US, the M109 is so old and some variants in service is outdated to those from other countries like the K9, they still use it and upgrade it.
That's why there is nothing bad about this, especially when the price is acceptable. If anything, I just think the Shtora-1 won't work anymore
Tank vs Tank battles are very rare. Armies would be better off focusing on preventing tank destroyers like FPV drones.
Iranian here, can confirm the government is definitely catering to the aerospace engineering side of things a fair bit heavier, and like you pointed out, missiles and drones.
M60 Patton on its way to become the tank version of M2 Browning or AK47
M60: please let me die
Iran: I have a better idea
the T54 is the ak. along with the t72
M60 is just like M16 , and T-55 is just like AK47, both will never die
The guns stay alive without constant modernisation. The original AK or browning are still pretty solid today. The stabdard M60 isn't
Israel m60 sabra
The first war of the 22nd century will be fought with upgraded Super M60A69s and T-55AMVU mod. 2077s
don't forget the MT-LB with top mounted railgun and coax laser gun
@@antek-sq8tl and a darkmatter powercore ofc
Y'all are cute. 😂
@@antek-sq8tl its arch nemesis shall be the M113 with 7 different types of composite armour stapled onto it from previous modernizations and 8 car engines in it (of course equipped with an M2HB on the top!)
Yeah, with Sadevistan module on it.
This thing looks offensive rather than aggresive.
It looks like a Decepticon tank from Temu
@@minhqun temu would be better quality. They actually sell decepticon licenced toys.
It looks laughable.
Israel m60 sabra
And rather offended))
The metal shroud is there for thermal management. A tank main gun is a hollow tube that's only supported at one end. As a result, sunlight will heat the part of the gun tube exposed to direct sunlight to heat up and expand slightly. This will cause a slight bend that can have a significant effect on accuracy. Keeping direct sunlight for hitting the gun tube beans that the tube will remain at a uniform temperature and no thermal bending will occur.
Generally, this is achieved using fiberglass or sheet-metal tubes that fit over the gun tube. I suspect that the Iranians tried to use those sheet-metal designs to both do this and make the tank look more modern. However, the shrouds do not appear to be well connected to the barrel and repeated firing will likely damage them fairly quickly.
I was thinking that the shroud was to lower a radar signature, same as the unique shape of the turret.
Huh? Sunlight is not a factor. The heat generated by firing the gun is greatly in excess of any thermal effect from sunlight. Steel thermal expansion is only 0.1mm per meter per degree C.
@@stevidente 'Thermal bending' is a factor. And it isn't the heat from firing that causes the issue. It's when the side facing the sun gets hotter than the side that shaded.
Remember that a tank main gun is a tube that's only supported at one end. And that thermal expansion of metal is a thing.
Oh and have you done the math as to exactly how much a 5C difference in temperature (and it is generally much higher) will change the direction the muzzle is pointing? And the effect this will have on accuracy at 2000 meters?
And you of course are aware that you have just demonstrated that you have no experience on tanks.
@@colincampbell767 You are being ridiculous. The shield is nothing more then propaganda. It is an upgrade designed to gain publicity points for the Iranian army. Heat from the sun should not have any impact on the gun. Tank guns are not made from an ordinary steel like your average knife. And if the sun is an issue, then just wrap a camouflage net around the gun. Won't cost you anything extra, won't needlessly weigh down the tank and most important it has the same effect.
There's no reason for thermal sleeves to be angular battlefield 2142 looking sheet metal. The vast majority of them are round and wrapped around the tank barrel.
Many neighboring countries still use cold war era atgms. So i think dazzlers still can have some effect regionally speaking
Which ones?
Who are their main enemies again?
Bruh he literally explains in the video that even the neighboring countries don't buy tanks with dazzlers because it's usless.
ATGM @@waitnottoday
@@waitnottoday I am asking which countries have what atgm's.
0:24 this looks AI-generated af.
Grow up
Fuck’s sake I can’t unsee it
@@amacca2085what? U grow up. Your comment makes no sense 😂
Ye it does. I think it’s also bc the dazzlers aren’t aligned properly and it looks very smooth
Tragically its real
Son, when a T90 and a M60 love each other very much...
Go on...
It’s always a good day when red uploads
Military Brass: So, our tanks are outdated and basically crap. What can we do?
Engineer: Make it look less like crap? 🤷♂️
🤔 Picatinny rails
Let's be honest, Iranian are truly creative even though under super heavy economical embargo
I don't see how mashing together things they have stolen or copied is creative.
@@HannarrMontannarr Israel m60 sabra
agreed on that
@@HannarrMontannarr stolen ? 400 M60s were bought during the Shah
@@HannarrMontannarr by your standards, no books should be written anymore, call every thought will be stolen, no tech gadgets should be created since it will be a copy of a previous invention; nor basically anything material or theoretical could be made practical ... give me a brake for god sake, you westerners thing that you own everything and only you can make something of value, all while living on the back on the third world emigrants who have been basically the soul source of creativity and invention in your medical, educational and military fields. Educate yourself about the end of colonialism and how your politicians set the wheel in motion ever since then
This is a tested prototype, not the actual modernization. THE M60s will likely be modernized in stages which is what the 402 in the name is for. Creating different modernization classes like they did with the Chieftain.
lol... no. You're looking at the limitations of modernization that Iran has.
@@RevolverOcelot79 We will see about that when this is rolled out in numbers.
@@advisorynoticeSorry, but you’re delusional. And this is nothing against Iran. They produce a lot of good arms. But they have neither the money nor the experience, expertise or facilities for either the numbers or effective upgrades on a tank this dated.
Looks like a comically large sci-fi Lego tank.
LoL
Lego is basically what it is
Lego the isreali hostages!
"Where did this abomination come from"
Well son, it's about time I tell you about the exhaust ports and the barrels... You see, when a M60 and T-90 love each other very much... You get _this_
0:35 I know of a reason for the gun shield and it comes from WWII.
During combat, the German panthers would get very hot barrels and when it would rain the metal at the top of the barrel would cool very quickly compared to the bottom which would warp the gun upwards slightly and throw it off zero. I dont know why I only heard it from a German report.
Maybe its because their guns were so much longer than the allies (length equal 70 calibers of the gun) and that made them more susceptible to the light bending. This was solved post war by placing a shroud over the gun.
yeah but the issue with that theory is that Iran is a dry country same with Iraqi and any bordering country
the gun shield probably is just there to make it look like something advanced
@@antek-sq8tl Unless it keeps the barrel from getting hot on top and warping it downward a hair...
Romanian T-55 derivate : "hold my beer"
The side panels give me an impression that this is an abrams x from ali express, and it does actually look like a Chinese toy tank...
Turkish M60 MZK modification: finally, a worthy opponent
Nah. MZK it's actual turret ,which has good features, while this one is basically steal mounted on top of the old turret lol
Israel m60 sabra
@@ilkeribrahim6541
Exactly, it's actually a Iaraeli modifcation based on the isrseli Sabre upgrade
(yes even Türkiye uses israel military tech)
But don't tell that to the Erdogan fans, they will be furious 😂
@AquaNomad34 everyone knows bruh dont fool yourself
Quit assuming that people are ignorant 😂
@@AquaNomad34 Bruh. This is M60T tank modernization you talking about lol. Even that tank has way more turkish system than Israeli now.
The MZK turret was integrated on M60A3 and was developed by Roketsan. Totally different modernization on going on different tank variant.
This looks like one of these sci fi concept tanks arts that follows no logic exept the necesity for being cool that you would see on DevianArt
This is likely just for show or prototyping, they will likely remove those lazer eye's by the final revision.
Could it be that the metal sheath around the cannon barrel is an attempt to conceal the thermal signature of it? I'd imagine it gets pretty hot when it's used, and lights up on IR displays like a christmas tree for many more minutes afterwards, even more so than the rest of the tank.
I mean, it *could* be... but that it was a Thermal Sleeve (what the 125mm 2A46 cannon has around its barrel) for the same purpose.
"Mama, can we get a T-90?"
"We have a T-90 at home..."
The T-90 at home:
Thanks temu
Everyone was laughing at the Ukrainians when they used commercial drones to drop grenades.
Everyone laughed at the Russians when they made the Tsar cope cage tank.
Everyone was laughing at the US/NATO when they replaced the Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
Now, everyone is laughing at the Iranians for their M60 upgrade. It's not perfect, and technology is outpacing production and development, but you have to start somewhere. This is how you get "know-how."
I'll see you in 20years when they get their first stealth aircraft based off an F-5 only to be met with a fucking 500 mile range missile fired from a 6th Generation Bomber hybrid.
@@PeterMuskrat6968Lmao, at this rate Lockheed will produce a total of 10 6th gen aircraft for 3 trillion dollars and only 3 of the 10 will be airworthy. You can tell that I'm joking because the US cut all funding for 6th gen aircraft this year and has no plans to resume in the near future.
@@92HazelMocha Yeah same. I get all this videos in my recommended of the US and other supposed aircrafts... And I've lived long enough, to get hyped over certain pieces of vehicles or equipment only to later for them to get canceled etc. In reality... Not that many things actually end up being built at all due to different factors. And so you end up truly admiring things that'd actually materialized... The future of the 6th gen looks very murky...
It's trash, they should build drones if they were to learn anything from Ukraine. And I mean small FPV drones.
Those don’t have range and can be jammed. Also limited payload.
Anything made off/based off M60 is never gonna even remotely resemble a decent tank in these years
Fire support for IFV formations.
Giving your MBTs better things to do.
The Turks really like their M-60 Saba's- they say the fire control is better then their leopards
The M60 Sabre (israeli modification with 120mm gun and add-on armor) used by Türkiye army, has Active Protection System (APS) from Ukraine, which make it one of the best protected tanks in active service today
This upgraded M60 Sabre with APS and 120mm gun is up to date or even better than most othe tanks (because most other tanks in the world still don't have APS)
@@AquaNomad34 The Iranians upgrades (if you can even call them that) barely add any value to the tanks surviveability largely because it still uses rolled steel armor from the 60s
@@AquaNomad34 What exactly are you smoking? The Sabra may be a decent M60 upgrade, but it's nowhere near actual modern MBTs, and certinly isn't "one of the best protected tanks in active service today".
An APS system might help it against missiles, but it won't do anything against KE projectiles. So in the end, you have an M60A3 hull with a little bit of ERA that will get penetrated by essentially every full caliber APFSDS, including outdated rounds like 3BM15 or DM23. The turret might do a bit better with the added composite, but I still doubt it'll be very effective against modern or semi-modern darts, like 3BM46, DM53 or M829A2. It's internal crew protection also isn't great, as combat losses have shown much higher crew casualties per penetrating hit for Sabras than the Leopard 2A4s Turkey also uses.
And while it has a decent gun, it's still an M60, so mobillity isn't exactly great. So in the end, while the Sabra upgrade may allow it to go toe to toe with upgraded T72As, an M60 is never going to stand up to a Leo2, M1A2 or T80BVM.
For such a sanctioned nation, Iran is sure creative. Iran was Persia afterall, remember. And Persians could fight.
The covering on the gun could be a wannabe thermal shroud
If we made this in US, i would laugh, but we have Abram X, the difference is, that tank look like it can dismantle all the bs component off, as in tomorrow it reaches a mechanised brigade, and the crew just dismantles all the unnecessary components off and request armor plates and other components.
Please RedEffect The Karrar does not have a new turret, there are images on the internet showing its a T-72 turret which has been modified, the photo you showed of the "new turret" has other photos associated with it showing the upgrade.
No , it actually got a new turret. there are two versions of the similar looking tank , The Karrar it self and the ghalavizan i think which is cheaper , the irgc got the karrar while the army is getting the ghalavizan. im not sure about the differences tho
@@mangoknight5035 I hate to disagree with you, Theres images from what looks like the same factory showing the Iranian t-72 turret receiving a an additional plate.and having a "hole" drilled between the two hatches on turret roof.
@@mangoknight5035 If Iran was doing 1 to one new turret builds you would see Old Iranian t 72 turrets repurposed.
@@babd3121 i dont know what would they use the old turrets but im sure it has a new turret
The gun shield is to even out the thermal exspansion, and minimize barrel droop, it is not armor. And actually not a bad idea, the British us a wrapped barrel, a thermal sleeve. The M1, well we have a MRS system.
0:55 The purpose of a gun shield is mostly for thermal insulation. Prevents asymmetric deforming due to warming by sunlight.
Could they not use a thermal blanket instead.?
Like the Polish concept Pl-01!
@@shengyi1701 It's not a polish concept. This has been known for years. Also a polish Pl01 is a reskinned CV90. lol
Existing M60 series still serving around the world, getting new updates: "Estoy cansado, jefe"
The barrel shroud (ala KF51) looks to be for thermal management. An alternative to the older barrel blanket.
Which, much like the dazzlers, will absolutely fail at because it's made of sheet metal.
The dazzlers are actually a good option, since most of the missiles used in the Middle East region are still SACLOS missiles which the dazzlsers work very effective against to deffend
Modern Top-Attack missiles (like the Javelin) are still very rare in the Middle East region and not so likely to get in the hands of rebels, so in most civil war scenarios it would be a good option to protect the tank
i can already see this becoming a premium in the next year 😭😭🙏🙏
Iran has manufactured its own state-of-the-art Karar main battle tank in large quantities. Given its advanced and as you mentioned costly nature , Iran prefers to reserve these tanks for conflicts with sophisticated adversaries like the US. Instead, it upgrades its older T-72 and M60 tanks for use against neighboring countries and proxies/terrorists that lack advanced weaponry. And is not designed for use against a serious adversary.
This is a pretty smart strategy, especially when you look at Gaza war and how Israel is losing its most advanced tank by Hamas snick behind it and stick an explosive with magnet on its weakest part of body and get destroyed
i bet they had an Iranian upgraded T72 and M60 tanks equipped with 360-degree awareness with Iranian auto targeting machine guns and advanced targeting systems for the tank itself, instead of using their most advanced, tank that intended for fighting with Iran not Hamas.
These advanced tanks are the only ones with advanced targeting that they need, but they also have many expensive technologies to counter electronic warfare and other costly equipment, which are intended for advanced adversaries and are useless against Hamas.
Iran strategy preserves the Karar tanks while repurposing older models that would otherwise be retired and scrapped, thereby benefiting the country.
Given that you are already aware of Iran's capability to produce advanced new tanks (Karar), you would have seen this if you wernt blinded by hatred and your desier to belitile Iran
Iran has produced its own cutting-edge Karar main battle tank in significant numbers. Due to its advanced and costly nature, Iran prefers to reserve these tanks for conflicts with sophisticated adversaries like the US. Instead, it upgrades its older T-72 and M60 tanks for use against neighboring countries and proxies or terrorists that lack advanced weaponry. These older models are not designed for use against serious adversaries.
This is a particularly smart strategy, especially when considering conflicts like the Gaza war, where Israel has lost its most advanced tanks. Hamas has managed to sneak behind these tanks, attach explosives with magnets to their weakest points, and destroy them. If Israel had Iranian-upgraded T-72 and M60 tanks equipped with 360-degree awareness, Iranian auto-targeting machine guns, and advanced targeting systems, they might have fared better. Instead, Israel used their most advanced tanks, which are intended for fighting with Iran, not Hamas.
These advanced tanks come with many expensive technologies to counter electronic warfare and other costly equipment, which are intended for advanced adversaries and are useless against Hamas. Iran's strategy preserves the Karar tanks while repurposing older models that would otherwise be retired and scrapped, thereby benefiting the country. Given that you are already aware of Iran's capability to produce advanced new tanks (Karar), you would have seen this if you weren't blinded by hatred and your desire to belittle Iran.
I think most of the countries that surround the Iran still use old ATGMs that dazzlers have effect on.
If I had a country surrounded almost entirely with mountains, I wouldn't spend much on tanks either.
I dont think the tank was intended to go toe to toe with an abrams. it maybe designed for the local threats iranian military faces like rebels or taliban.
Most rebel groups have ATGMs that either have Tandem warhead or just a really good warhead.
This thing has ZERO composites, and the copper spike/Jet would just melt through its steel. This thing is hair brained and idiotic.
@@PeterMuskrat6968The Taliban doesn't and it's their neighbor. Taliban stockpiles are mostly mid coldwar equipment, which this upgrade would actually prevent against
Taliban self bit Abrams😂
@@Amen6magi Everyone knows that the victory of the Taliban took place with the plan of America....
Barrell guard is to protect driver's helmet from melting to the hottest bit of the main gun while also functioning to help dump heat so the gun maintains accuracy.
The tank is visually designed to fight America and Israel, but in actuality, it is designed to fight its citizens and local tribal groups.
Is Iran Israel?
The sheet metal shroud around the gun barrel, may be a heat shield to prevent sunlight from making the main gun overheat- which would reduce the barrel life (number of times the weapon may be fired, before one must replace the barrel), a real problem with older weapons- and/or shield the gun barrel from enemy infrared sensors. Whether or not these benefits are actually worth the cost in materials and in additional weight, is another matter.
Saheed drones were laughable at first too .But now everyone wants something similiar
Because sometimes defeating your enemy isn't a matter of who has the most high-tech weapons, but who can spam theirweapons the most.
@@cybernetic_crocodile8462
This is not exactly true
High tech weapons definitely do matter, especially in todays military doctrine
For example modern anti-drone tech has become very important to defend against drone swarms.
Such as Laser weapon or Electronic counter-jamming device
But not everoyne has good high tech with big numbers combined, like the USA
Nobody is going to want this crap.
@@RevolverOcelot79Iran doesn't care about selling it. It's for their own security against enemy proxies and terr*rist groups that use old cold war era weapons that this tank can counter and is a better more creative option for Iran to modernise its old tanks compared to just putting them in storage. Iran's higher end Karrar tank would be the thing they'd use against enemies with modern weapons.
Everyone can easily produce them if needed but countries have better drones fleets already.
Gun shield is for stealth. Radio waves can wrap around a cylinder and travel back to sender, causing a radar signature.
Why do iranian weapons prototypes and products look like something that was put together by an hobby tinkerer in a garage?
They are lmaaaoo
If you bother to use google for 3 minutes you will find out they have been sanctioned to all hell since 1979, thats why they still must rely on M60s, F-14's, AH-1's and such.
Israel m60 sabra
@@Amen6magi So are you going to post this on every comment or what?
@@Amen6magi Even the fucking Israelified Eastern Bloc vehicles were still more effective and better out together than this literal abomination.
This thing is too old to see active service, and the only reason it is kept around is so Iran can continue to play pretend regional power.
Honestly surprised they seem to still be using the M68 for the gun, You'd think they'd try and put a soviet gun of some sort into it instead. Idk if the 125mm would fit but maybe the older 100/115mm guns.
presumably they have sufficient 105mm ammunition stocks.
sufficient 105mm ammunition stocks and expenses , Tank development isnt a top priority in iran
I’ll bet that cowling on the main gun barrel is either for radar (it’s prolly not very good at reducing radar signature) or it’s for thermal/IR (having an air gap with an outer skin will drastically reduce the signature of the super hot barrel after a few firings).
02:15 but they do have a tank with dazzlers and ERA behind it, on the T-80UK.
Is thick front armor useful anymore, like most tank kills are from the top or sides or then back
That tank would get easily destroyed in Ukraine. Drones would land on the back engine vents and blow it up easily. This is purely a show tank you see it on Parades and that's it, that why you have not seen it in Syria, Iraq, or in the Yemen conflicts.
Iranian Cosplay.
Love the face away outro, gotta love svard
I feel like they will have a better time reducing the amount of MBT types and focus on designing and building new MBTs. Doesn't matter indigenous or foreign its better for them to produce it locally and replace some foreign parts with locally made one
iran's use for it's tanks is against insurgents, in such a case you'd rather have more than a few fancy ones, insurgents are constantly on the move you want to cover up more areas if the insurgents are really capable of destroying your tanks they would destroy any tank regardless of the price
Iranian one morning: "Tank?"
Other Iranian: "Tank!"
I understand that your evaluation is made in a general sense, but Iran's most likely adversaries are internal and regional (Afghanistan, not the gulf states). Both of those will not really have access to modern weapons. Even the yanks probably aren't stupid enough to send crates of modern weapons to Afghanistan again (although you never know). Do upgrades like the dazzlers make more sense there?
The gun shield is probably meant to reduce thermal signature. The French first used it on their sniper rifle in the 1980s
For a muslim military the Iranian armed forces surely seem drunk when it comes to their tech developments lol
Well they're muslim and no one have ever accused them of being cutting edge
calling iran muslim is like calling the US christan@@dean_l33
Since when was Muslim countries known for advance tech?
I mean muslims are not the brightest .
Hes making a joke, drunk design, muslims arent supposed to drink, etc etc
Every Cold War tank must be upgraded. An old tank cannot be thrown away. With a new engine, sensors and additional armor it is as good as any MBT. The war in Eastern Europe proved this.
The worst part is that It's lacking cope cages! Not good.
That gun shield needs a matching spoiler and maybe put googly eyes on the turret
Iran is really out here competing with Israel and Hungary to make the ugliest M-60
Hungary has M-60?
@@robrob9050 They have an M60 motorway 🤷🤷🤷
The israeli Sabre upgrade actually looks very 🔥🔥🔥
@@Godaronful Well, T72 has many pimping up designs too which are utterly..useless. Mostly waste of taxpayers money, time and resources subjected to different levels of autocratic rulers.
That sheet around the cannon is to make it look both modern and futuristic. Kind of gives it a sci-fi railgun sort of look.
Though thinking about it, it could have some practical use in passive heat dissipation, though probably not enough to be noticeable.
Oh Iran, why?
Makes you question their ability to control nuclear power (civilian or millitary) altogether when things like this come up.
This thing is only usable against cold war era tanks or if its used as a fire support vehicle with infantry.
Probably the intended purpose tbh
Like another person pointed out, the ground forces are not MEANT to pose a challenge to modern militaries (take for example Israel, the US, etc.) their "tactic" seems to be using their ground forces for skirmishes with insurgents or similarly armed, neighboring countries; and if they ever come face to face with their more modern opponents, using missiles and drones as their primary anti armor solution.
It looks like Iran watch Transformers and try to model their tanks from it
just the old tank with a body kit.
I mean it's still better than a TR-85...
If this was a western tank:
Wow brilliant engineerng fantastic futuristic most modern incredible wonderful amzing gobsmacked tank.
I think anyone can agree, this tank is probably dogsh*t
Well Western tanks are actually incredible, this tank clearly is horrible.
However, the new North Korean tank genuinely seems promising.
@@Yisraelamundas yea atleast the nk tank designers had a somewhat basic idea on a tank
@@GuPKay Yeah however the task purpose guy saying ATGMs on a tank is useless is certainly propaganda, sure it doesn’t do much but it still can hit tanks.
North Korea probably has a better tank than China atm
@Yisraelamundas I think it's very unlikely for NK to develop a tank that's better than China's, especially when China is more technologically advanced, richer, and less sanctions. I doubt Rus Federation and China would share their most advanced tech with NK anyway, since they're competing for export, making it even more unlikely for them to share with NK.
I worked a few years in Iran military manufacturing industry and let me tell you this.
always assume the worst about the things that come out of the factory line.
they barely spend any money on research and people in charge are selected based on their believes and loyalty to government and not based on talent.
once I talked to a commander who was willing to bet his life that Russian tanks are using hardkill APTS and its the best thing in the world because he had seen a video and his ears were closed to any fact that you were presenting.
also 90% of things you see Iran builds are for the sake of national audience who don't have access to true information.
so when this commander (in video) says that this tank is one of the best in the world and news channels air it , most Iranian will believe it.
they most likely make the modification to a few of the tanks to show on TV and then leave the project.
Iran spends shyt ton of money on Militants groups on proxy wars and not that many on its actual army.
love you videos and keep up the good work.
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did they tried to recreate the rheinmetall guncover with the logo like on the kf-51 ?
So the gun sleeves are supposed to break up the tank's thermal signature to make them harder to identify at range. But like the KF51, and every other prototype that has them, they won't end up in the production version because that technique doesn't work. Tank designers have been toying with the concept for about 20 years, and in 20 years they're always excluded from the production model.
It's possible the dazzlers are not the same as the dazzlers on the old T90 tanks, and are able to defeat modern ATGMs. If not, it's possible that the inclusion is to defeat older ATGMs fired from militia groups they are fighting against in the region. I don't think this tank upgrade is meant to be a pose any meaningful threat to Israel or the US, they invested heavily into drones, and ballistic missiles for that purpose. Russia's support of Iran also strengthened their air defenses with the S-400 SAM systems and Murmansk jammer systems.
Iran is very far from Israel, so they wouldn't have any practical means to stage a ground invasion with tanks into Israel, so their tanks are likely intended to fight locally against militias, where these upgrades are good enough for that purpose.
Dazzlers will still work with ATGMs that do not have top down attack functionality. So it may fit into a more asymmetrical warfare doctrine of going up against less well equipped forces. The top down attack systems like the SPIKE, Javelin, HJ-12, Kornet-M will destroy any MBT on the planet as the top attack is the weak spot of every tank
The Trophy APS can actually intercept top attack missiles too
The Hezbollah recently used a modern top attack missile against a israeli Merkava 4 and the Trophy APS detected and intecepted the missile successfully
Trophy APS provides a 360 view of what's visible on the tank, and will terminate any threat. This is why the Abrams and Merkava has it.
@@AquaNomad34 Yeah the older system only protected like a circle, but it's like a sphere now.
@@AquaNomad34 provided there isn’t infantry around because it would be detrimental for nearby soft units when the shrapnels burst
Aint no way, did they just copy abrams x side skirt.
All nato and israel copy abrams
Iranians: design me a tank for the modern battlefield
*this is what the AI told them*
2:05 Iraq mentioned 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
Ya husainnnnnn 🦁🦁🦁🦁
STOP MAKING MOBILE COFFINS!
the one tank that the Arjun could beat
No way lol... Arjun is terrible. This is actually pretty decent.
They wanted to create Panther KF51 or Merkava 4? Or something only looking similar?
1:36 Did you just said t-98 tank?
he said T-90A
No he said t98
@@Deathtrouper Exactly what I wrote.
@@Paul-oi2wzit’s just his accent, it’s the T-90 A
@@Nobody10115 Thanks man.
Cheers to RedEffect for the Saturday morning upload!
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The sheild is probably for temperature effects on the barrel.
Franken-Tank. Similar to a lot of soviet armor, it performs best against civilians, which I believe is it's actual intended purpose. War-fighting is just a tertiary application for the Iranians and their new tank
"it performs best against civilians" It was not intended for that, but yes, the Ukrainians use them alot to hunt civillians as they like to film themselves.
That sort of shield covers some of the gun's heat signature.
when you dont aim at the ERA...
loving the stereo speakers up front on the turret...
informative vid as ever
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I just dropped everything else when I saw a new RedEffect Video.
Would the gun shield help with sun heating up the barrel? Air is a pretty good insulator
The extended shielding of the barrel or parts of it is meant as a radar-frustrating measure to both distort radar signature to conceal the tank's identity in the same way camouflage patterns are meant to disrupt the outline of a structure or vehicle to make it harder to recognize and identify, and to confuse ordnance using radar homing. It was originally explored by the IDF in the Merkava design but was dropped in later versions due to it having no tangible effect.
There are only one or two munitions which use radar for homing on a ground target such as tank, on the surface radar stealth does not make sense, that's why US never made the Comanche helicopter.
@@mehrdad4784 Right. And as the Israelis also found out. I notice the Russian army has a similar feature on some of their (officially presented) T-14 variants. It's more of a rhombe-shaped barrel than a sleave covering a rounded barrel. Probably that's where the Iranians got the idea for their shield-extended barrel shroud.
@@WormholeJimTo be fair tank designers have been toying with the shroud concept for years and it always gets scrapped. The original Karrar tank prototypes from like 8 years ago had them, but they were cut on the production tanks. In practice it seems like they always eventually decide it's not worth doing.
It's been customised at Los Santos motors.😏
Hell yaeh baby Red posted
Can you please talk about the Egyptian Sinai 200?
And to what degree is it different from the bmp 1 ?
ngl it looks cool but weird
@@Yisraelamundas exactly
Looks like bmp 1 updated
Could it be of value in a contemporary battle like Ukraine?