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Oplot ingame has bug when commander some times stuck in forever "rotating" state during which he dont spot anything. Bulat has naturally better optics than BV IRL Bulat also has better commander sight than T-72B3. Not sure if its true for ingame Shooting atgms instead of sabot is just lazy bug of ingame ai. Cause of this i actually think t-64bv ingame is best ukrainian tank cause its just does not have those stupid atgms so it stuck using right ammo choice.

Ingame BTR-4 is just BMP-2 on wheels with tall silhouette. They dont use their agl often or effective enough to make impact. They almost never use their atgms, and when they use them, laser warning systems on all enemy armor defeats it (while irl laser warning system shouldn't be triggered by beamriding atgm), and atgm on bmp-2 dont trigger laser warning cause its old style optical guiding. RWS module on BTR-4 ingame modeled as conventional turret (you can see it if you move camera inside hull), line of sight for its weapons comes from hull not from turret, so it cant shoot over cover as it should be able irl using its high mounted rws to advantage. If its weapon was modeled correctly ingame as RWS, it shouldn't for example be destroyed when hit in passenger compartment with ap rounds, cause there is nothing important to penetrate. Ingame it just boring vehicle overall, which get detected more easily than bmp2 cause its so tall but dont compensate this disadvantage with anything that bmp2 cant do.

Thats false news from the mouth of pro-russian propaganda. In reality Bulat has more horse power to weight ratio than soviet t-64bv. Bulat upgrade package includes new more powerful engine.

Russian forces shooting AGS from the window of civ apartment.

IRL ukrainian APS has 2 charges per module, second charge is being deployed instantly after first is expended. You can install as many number of modules on a vehicle as you wish, but realistic number is 2 modules per side, so 4 charges for each side.

T-80bv in training (comes in middle of video)

Dont know if already posted, but here some decently clear video from operator of BTR-4 shooting

Russian APS is pure fantasy. Even prototype of T-90AM that was actually built for parades but never even considered to be in service does not have and never even tested this fantasy APS. While ukrainian APS is real and even exported to other countries, like Turkey. Ukrainian APS should have much much lower rarity ingame, and allowed to be mounted not just to Oplots but also to BTR-4s.

Russia in this game is uber over equipped. IRL they dont have t-90am in service, they dont have bmp-2m and and bmp-3m in service, they dont have brm-3k in service. Almost every shiny tech that russia has in this game irl is just fantasy or just prototypes. And those that is actually in service made overpowered in game. For example btr-82a irl has much worse optics than btr-4, but in game its reversed. Airburst munitions for btr-82a is not produced by russia, it was ordered from europe, and after sanctions its not possible anymore. Kornet atgm is much much older and inferior system than Scif, but in game they are equal or even kornet stronger. And so on.

Ukraine Army at this moment does not have any Oplots. But Oplots themselves is much more real than russian T-90AM. Number of Oplots built is bigger than T-90AM, this russian fantasy tank is not in service in any country currently, even not in russia itself, Oplot at least in service of Tai army. As for other tanks. We have several hundreds of T-64bv in storage(it was made in ussr), they being restored from storage and put into army in quantities currently needed. Also about 100 of this tanks was upgraded to T-64 bulat, and current version of Bulat has thermals. Also we have many t-72 in storage, but they was ditched cause they actually inferior to t-64's. People thinking if number in the name of t-72 is bigger means its better tank, but its not. Soviet union made t-72 to be downgraded version of t-64 in every aspect. Also we have about hundred of t-80bv's in storage, they being put in service in decent numbers.

I tried only "demo" version, which is on old engine. So question is, does problems that was in old engine got fixed in new engine? For example this one Also it seams even when commander is not bugged out by rotating glitch, he still cant spot anything cause looks like in game thermals only got gunners sight, but on actual oplot thermals are for both gunner sight and commanders panoramic. or this Or other that i discovered myself with btr-4 In manual it says that it has rws that gives it higher viewing point on battlefield helping it to see better, but ingame (at least on old engine) it does not. For example if you park btr-4 near the wall that just tall enough to cover its hull but not turret - it cant shoot, cause actual line of site for its weapons comes from the hull not from rws turret. And im not even talking about its deployable telescope tower which comes standard for its rws module, so in theory it can spot targets with this telescope while being totally covered, and shoot at indirect targets with its AGL. Also Scif portable atgms as well as BTR-4's atgms(cause its actually same rocket mounted in turret) should not give laser warning for target cause its system works by automatically aiming laser slightly higher above the target and guiding rocket at that trajectory until last second before impact it lowering laser on target and rocket follows it, giving the target no time to react on laser warning. And Oplots atgm system i think works the same as well as t-64 bulat (uses same atgms as oplot).

Still manned turret?

If this bug is not source of Oplots poor spotting - then its just Oplots spotting characteristics in game is seriously under-powered. Oplot has same second-generation thermals as russian tanks, and they both make their thermals sights from imported french thermal sensors. Nor Russia Nor Ukraine has its own full cycle production of thermal imageres - they both import key parts for their thermals from abroad.

Maybe cause KrAZ "Spartan" is made in co-operation with Canada, and BTR-4 is solo Ukrainian product? Dont try to find logic sense where corruption is involved. And cause of BTR-4 is solo ukrainian product - it sure has alot of corruption in it.

Yes, there is a notation in ukrainian at top part of aiming display saying that this is thermal image. But its not BTR-4E, its KrAZ "Spartan" armored car.

US have and always had superior Naval Fleet. In that period(and any other period) US could got in land war(where all flaws you described could metter) with Russians only if US attacked them first on their land.

Use "elited" BRM-1K(not sure about IRL, but in game im sure they have thermals) and PRP-4M. Oplot is currently bugged in game, it cant spot. BRM-1K and PRP-4M are best spotters ukraine side in game currently has, they spot a little less then russian tanks, but not much little, and BM Bulat does not have thermals so he cant spot anything outside of bright day.

Here i found picture (unfortunately low quality) of BTR-4 aiming display All notations i can see are "АВТ" (auto fire), "ПКТ" (PKT coaxial mg), "ГР" (grenades for coaxial AGS-17), "OФ"(HE shells for 30mm cannon), "БТ"(AP shells for 30mm cannon), and in bottom corners "УП" and "УВ" (aiming angles)

On the other hand. BM Bulat and BTR-4 both have possibility to install thermals - its only cause of financial issue they dont have it IRL. But in this game this virtual Ukraine side has enough money to en-mass such expensive equipment as Oplot tanks, Skif atgm(with thermal sight and remote control(not modeled ingame)) and so on. So why this virtual Ukraine does not have money for thermal sights for Bulat and BTR-4? Also in this game Ukraine has very close co-operation with US, and in manual even told that Ukraine side has platoons of US troops (they just not buy-able ingame cause they meant to be of-field for radio, ew, coordination and other indirect support). So why in game Ukraine does not have US-made drones, night vision googles and other equipment. Since now, at this moment In Real Life - US actually provided Ukraine army with US-made drones(ravens), night vision googles(AN/PVS-14), and counter-battery radars(AN/TPQ-36). And in terms of gameplay this will be balance as ingame US has more advanced than "raven" drones, more advanced than AN/PVS-14 night vision googles and so on.

I think its just high-contrast black and white picture. Here site of the manufacturer of its sight system there is nothing about thermals http://www.chezara.com/catalog/special-equipment/trek/

"IR Optics" tag in game does not equal to thermal imaging. Its more like "any night vision capability" and almost every vehicle in game has this tag Here is quote from manual

No It has first generation thermals. Its more like thermal photo camera than video. Its give thermal scans of target with slow update rate. In game i think it works. PRP-4M and BRM-1K spots further then any other ex-soviet vehicle like btr-70 and bmp-2. But less then modern second generation thermals like on t-72b3 and t-90 and Oplot (Oplot currently spots less cause of bug, realistically it should spot as good as rusian tanks)

It should be. Since T-72B3 has terrible commander optics it should not add any spotting power, especially at night at bad weather conditions(this situation i used in test). So in that test commander of T-72B3 should be as good at spotting as comander of Oplot with 'rotating' bug

BV and Bulat does not have thermals. Few old modification of 72s was restored from storage as act of desperation, when our army needed any tank they could get. Officially t-72 are not in active service.

I launched map with night and thick rain condition in Hotseat mode, controlling both sides put Oplot and T-72 at front one another with clean line of sight, and move them close till some one spot the opponent. T-72 spots Oplot first and Oplot still need to move a lot closer to spot T-72