Ukrainian Merkava tank. Object 488 - Merkava, but with a little Twist. 

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Wow. If all soviet/post soviet obj tanks is covered by this channel, there will be a lot of interesting failed tanks topic.

Last time I was this early T55 was still the best tank around

Make the T-80 great again

I heard they have a new tank in development: *Object 69* . *The Ukranian Arjun* , its goal being to induce their enemies into a sense of safety and get them laughing while they get flanked with other real and actually functioning tanks.

Got to say Red effect always posts good content

still won't beat Arjun! Edit: I just realized this is a 7 min. video and the Warthunder Ad takes up half of it! Yes, I know there is little known about the tank it’s just funny to me!

I would like to see the best export tanks in three different categories, 1. Cheap tanks. If you are on a very tight budget and/or your enemies only have Cold War Junkers and improvised armor, what would be good enough for that? Some candidates would upgraded versions of the M60, T-55 or T-62, earlier T-72 variants. 2. Good Value tanks. You have a larger military budget and anticipate on fighting a conventional military that has access to late Cold War armor, so an M60A3 or T-72M will likely prove to be insufficient, but your budget doesn't allow for the latest and greatest. Some candidates would be an later T-72 Variants, a T-80 variant, Leopard 2A5 or 2A4, or early M1 Abrams variants. 3. Best Tanks. You have a very large military budget and either intend to flex it or to possibly fight an invasion from the great powers(USA, EU, RU, China for example). Candidates would include T-90, M1A2, Leopard 2A6 or 2A7, K2 Black Panther.

This was actually such a good idea i think it would’ve made a massive difference in the battlefield

They should have gone with a Namer concept instead. Basically a merkava hull, but no turret, or a smaller turret with an auto cannon. This allows for more room for infantry and their equipment. The APC offers the protection of a tank, but can still carry a decent amount of troops.

7:10 you can see APD employed on tank. Active Protection Dog.

Excellent video thanks

Torque in itself is pointless value. It adds up to hp when combined with RPM. RPM value shows how well tank divides its power into smaller chunks. Vehicles which need a lot of start up power like tractors usually have massive RPM. Torque shows how much rotary strength vehicle produces. Vehicles like trains need low RPM and huge torque engines which allows them to push massive amount of weight at the cost of abysmal acceleration.

Great content.

700-1000mm on the front? Jesus thats amazing by today standards. Only thing i think that got better frontal protection is the T-14

you are the best Tank reviewer at this time.

Great Video, never heard of this tank. Thanks for the information

Thank u for the video I think u covered what the majority like me didn’t know about, given there poor attempts at comments. Thanks once again

LET'S PLAY SPOT THE KREMLIN BOTS

Betrayed, forgotten, abandoned 😭

It looked really cool.

when you have sold out to gajin and are obligated to make a video regularly lol

Tanks for watching

6:03 What would be the purpose of the US with testing the Oplot? Just to check it's abilities or would they actually have goals with it? Latter sounds unrealistic because of the weapon system.

do you know about ukrainian project of replacement a turm in M46/M48 Patton with a soviet turm from t80(or t72 I do not remember details)

Man, I would watch you playing war thunder

Interesting!!

They should revisit this design :)

Cool vid. Now I expect this to be a future event reward tank in War Thunder :P

I would like to see video on T-72M4CZ

Love these vids Red! Any chance of doing a video on the k2 black panther? Or the Japanese type 10?

What bloody detailing 👏👏 just fantastic

stunning looking...then again the merkeva is me fave tank !

How do you get access to the engine to maintain it? Usually you would have large hatches above the engine, but here you got a thick armour plate. Do you get to the engine from below? And isn't it much more complicated than in an usual layout?

The picture from Merkava IV from MENG

Can you do a video about M60 upgrade programs like (super m60, m60-2000, magach, SLEP, Sabra and many more)

The brilliant concept of combining Main Battle Tanks and Infantry Fighting Vehicle features into a single platform would be undisputed in terms of operational flexibility and optimized more efficient organizational structures and logistics in the armored corps. Sadly that is very hard to pull off on restricted budgets and limited resources. On top of that this would force personnel to cross train between armored crew and infantry to sustain group cohesion and clear understanding when establishing communication or coordination. The material cost and investment on human capital would be off the charts in terms of expenses, time to train, ultimately to yield both flexible and effective combat performance. This concept would of been a prime example of force multiplier, however, the cost would of been great and requires downsizing the sum of personnel in each armored personnel. Doubtful that congress would spend that much money on a high quality but smaller armored corps. Hope the Ukrainians found a way to go around this problem of reducing these high inputs and maximizing higher outputs at economically sustainable levels. Something to keep in mind on the next generation armored vehicle on congressional budget meetings and the U.S. Army modernization programs because it's money you paid for in taxes. Not saying, "can't argue with tax payers" but they are the very people the U.S. government has to answer to.

you should do a video on the k1/k2 or type10 :D

Would love a video on the Romanian TR-85s

2:34 That part was taken from video that was taken by soldier whom says that barrel jumped left and right, so he couldn't aim this shit normally.

Better then BTMP-84?

Make a Strv Tank vid plz

Can ya do a video on Chinese VT 4 Aka MBT 3000?

How’s know hold the patent for object 488.

What is the vehicle at 0:06 please, the twin turret APC thing ?

A Type 90 video, please ?

Are you going to do anymore object tanks?

Video about Japanese Type 90?

A GR8 vehicle, fantastic concept. 🤔.,............ many thanx 👍 👍 be safe 🦊

Was that a t55 with ERA?

Wait was that a T64 with T55 turet?

Was this the same as the BTMP-84? Or are these two entirely different vehicles?

could you tank about the BMT-72

YES RED, yes... i want to cry rn.... you havent answered my question.. maybe even you havent even notice it... But.. do you like peanuts?

What about Oplot MBT

Always like you stuff. I’m still laughing about your arguing video.

Merkava is more like a super-heavy infantry fighting vehicle (I called it Infantry Fighting Tank) : )).

Wow - that is a genuenly interesing

Can you make a video about the T55 enigma and how it was the first anti guerrilla warfare mbt And will adding square radioactive armor inside the armored boxes will help since the have for slots for radioactive armor will it be good? What if the added al this modification to the t72 how will it be

I remember seeing the Object 488 a year ago trying to look for tanks that could transport troops. Unfortunately, the sources were in cyrillic, so I couldn't read it. Thanks RedEffect for talking about this very interesting tank!

Can you do a video about merkava mk3D since it’s still in use in Israel

Do a video on the upgraded Challenger The one that WILL have a 130mm gun. Please

Wonder if anyone thought of using saved space from unmanned auto turret to house squishy infantry buddies

You are wrong. Ukraine as a country has existed since 1991, and since its inception has not been developing new tanks, and even if it produces only for foreign customers. Even "OPLOT" is a modernization of the Soviet T-80U, it is even called the T-84.

Can yo make a video on modern light tanks?

Gaijin when?

these guys pump out tanks like babies

When will you do the k-2 tank

Do you have a source about T-84 oplot has cancelled to the US?

Please Make A Video On Type 62 Light Tank Thank You😊

Talk about the object 640 (Black eagle) some of its features used in t14 armata.

Can you review the T90M proryv-3 some sources says it uses the same gun on T14 armata

Please make a video on New "Al-Khalid-1" Tank.

I heard my name, and so I came.

Plz make a video on newly inducted alkhalid 1(modernised version of al khalid and mbt2000) and vt4 and would u compare them with arjun t72 and t90's of india?

From an appearance point of view, the merkava looks way better to me.

So Reznov all the time was right?

Noe delivering one tank to the enemy is hardly great criticism lol.

Can you please make a video about the Romanian TR-85M1 MBT? I really want to see my country's tank! Thanks :3

Nice idea about this tank but it also has the same problem as BM-oplot. feels so sad

How about the 60k special to be a video about South American tanks? Ex: Tamoyo, Osório, TAM

0:02 Crimea: ¯\_( ツ)_/¯

Well your English pronunciation progressed much since my last comments. Good job 👌

looks like t-80 turret on BTR chassis...

was not expecting a black ops 1 reference

İ want to see that at war thunder

Hey that alpha defence guy is saying india is gona upgrade Arjun's cannon is that true

This sounds like it would have been a good armoured combat system. I suspect that the main reason for a lack of adoption would be a lack of funding.

Who's here after Russia started the Invasion?

Could you a Do a video in black eagle or t 95

Hellow fellow tanker

Outro music?

To me it looks like a light tank it’s a good idea to build a light tank

interesting

Thank you for another good video. The tank looks nice, IMHO. I like this sloped armor. One small remark about the original Merkava: as far as I know, the idea was to have a second crew in the back to allow fighting in shifts.

IDF dude merkava never have that extra ammo box or I never saw it on mark2-3 it’s just an option to add some more ammo not a standard load out

0:49 😂😂😂😂😂

Remembered BMT-72? No Im not talking about BMPT-72 "Terminator". Im talking about the one that you can stuff only 3 more boys in it via top escape hatches between turret and engines.

Hey @RedEffect, im new here but I've got a little correction for you, we used to stuff infantry into our Merkava back door, with full gear you can stick between 1 and 3 boots in there without removing ammo. So it's sort of like, it's not a full APC, but it's not exactly what you said, so thought you should know, if you wanna know more I can fill you in on the deets

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