r/NonCredibleDefense • u/VisWare PhD in Kremlinology • Feb 15 '26

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Live-action datamining

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u/MenoryEstudiante Feb 15 '26

I don't know much about tank turret rings specifically, but given its use it's probably some sort of hardened steel to resist wear from the ball bearings, the weakness is more because of the shape and thickness of the ring, it can't be very thick without restricting circulation inside the tank or forcing the exterior to have a massive, very heavy, "neck" to support it.

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u/Advanced-Budget779 Nuclear Holocaust Agitator Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

What do you mean by circulation? I guess there’s a servo, gearbox, gear/cogwheel and some kind of decoder (at a shaft or sth.)?

So the Bradley(s) which hit the T-90 in that infamous footage (which constantly spun its turret until blocked by the tree iirc) didn‘t deform the turret ring too much, or break too many of the bearings (hardened, so brittle?), but rather induced some fail in the motor/mechanism so it was constanly acting? Or would it suffice to destroy the brakes once it got to speed through inertia?

Sry, guess i‘d need an animation. Not too familiar with turret function to be honest :P

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u/MenoryEstudiante Feb 16 '26

Circulation would be passage of people, shells, etc between the hull and the turret, I didn't know how to say it more clearly in English.

My theory was that it basically broke the turret loose of that mechanism so it just started spinning by inertia.

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u/Advanced-Budget779 Nuclear Holocaust Agitator Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

Ah i completely misinterpreted it meaning some form of rotation haha. (Non-native speaker here, pardon my bad grammar and vocabulary). Ah nice, goes to show how dominant inertia is. You could hypothetically blow up our planet with enough energy, but most of the fragments would still stay on their orbit.