I am so tickled by the hubris necessary to use an actual jet engine in your tank. Maybe I’m wrong and everyone does it, but to me it seems like the kind of thing you do if you can’t imagine ever having to hide the tank, you build a giant bridge-cracker with a jet engine inside. It seems like signature reduction in a peer conflict was not something the designers ever thought about when sketching up their Big Gun Imperialism Mobile.
Both the Americans and the Soviets went to a jet turbine on their MBT at around the same time, but the Russians decided it wasn’t worth it with the next generation and went back to diesel.
I am so tickled by the hubris necessary to use an actual jet engine in your tank. Maybe I’m wrong and everyone does it, but to me it seems like the kind of thing you do if you can’t imagine ever having to hide the tank, you build a giant bridge-cracker with a jet engine inside. It seems like signature reduction in a peer conflict was not something the designers ever thought about when sketching up their Big Gun Imperialism Mobile.
Both the Americans and the Soviets went to a jet turbine on their MBT at around the same time, but the Russians decided it wasn’t worth it with the next generation and went back to diesel.