God the windshield on that first one Pago. It is a bird-shit magnet!
... hawent thought about that particular thing as an "construction-factor" in the militarry.
I think in this particular project, thay tried to apply the t-34 knowledge of theyr fathers - M. Koshkin and co. to use the front side in a particular angle to "reflect" bullets abowe the criticall hit-angle. Not a bad idea if you think about it, mainly if the front side of a middle-weight transport is the main "hit spot" and the main problem (because the lower anti-balisstic characteristics of the cabin glass) at the safety in combat situation. An interesting way to maximalize the needed penetration thickness of the armour. Who knows how its shooting-tests would look like, but the fact to hawe an higher position ower it to hitt it radically by an anti armour bullet is there. ... an it looks werry wierd-moderny whyte the IED-outflow construction.
Werry simple thinking, weird, but who knows ? Maybe anything will look once that way in the future, exept it will fly.
Also the front-set seems to be constructed as an modular part for an posibble bigger and/orr other type vehicles to be modular and inter-usable part for both of them (ewen symplifying the production and service). Would be interesting to see the intensions in terms of modularity in that project, but it may be an 10+ year waiting.
(Not to mention, that Medveď, vlk, tyger and the new Ural seem to be the choice for the ministry of defenc in RF and so could be possably canceled, wouldnt mint to fund it doe to see, what comes out of it ...) Already there are a great effort to make many of the millitary battle tech. in RF moddable and multi-usable (in terms of unified engine/gearbox/frames/fight complexes to make an simple and fast way to repair and modify them for particular situation in the field ...).
... for the "french - american" one, its actually "IN" to make those wehicles werry persistent against RPG´s and IED´s as theyr tactics assume a fast victory in combat trought air and tech/number superiority against potencial enemyes in wars and an ocuppation progress. That means, that they may not be so agile and fast as it seems to be, what actually is making an gread problem in the minds of russian constructors themselves, witch wont to go the modular way, because the too-high expension in fire-resistance can significantly hit the transporters specs as for the great weight (and modern materials are not so weight-sawing as it would be needed) ... one of the Ural-constructors said, that its the same as the post WWII problem in Tank-building. Ending in an dead-end of that approach (why they took the smaller, lighter tank-construction way and in modern days special ways of protection - active armour/SHTORA AND OTHER OPTO/RADIO/THERMAL protection systems (and us has an shrapnell-based anti RPG system too, dont know how they do exploit it, but as long as casulties extend they war as they wish, ti will probably stay in extended protection vehicle production) , witch i think they will try to transfer from tanks trought now applied BMS´s to transporters too in the future). But US way doest care about that, becouse they use such wehicles more in Conwoy-leading and protection in an prolonged ocupattional enviroment. So to the point, that the Joint "LIGHT" Fighting Vehicle starts to be an Light big-ass transporter whyte some little more space as an HMMWV, but not the capacity of an truck neither. So we can see the RF Tyger (that isnt as much agile and fast too) to be used as a mobile AT-rocket complex - something like a modern age BRDM whyte the needed anti-balistic specs., not suplementing the light fighting and recon vehicles, butt rather extending the millitary "garague".
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