Heng Long T90

[spongehoobtank82]

Great videos Paul, let's hope they keep these electronics/ sounds for the production model! Looks and sounds like a great little tank! Can't wait to get one and get modding!

[Ad Lav]

Good videos Paul - had to laugh at the engine sounds until you clicked to second sound set. Not bad at all.

Would you change to an IBU or elmod if upgrading?

[forgebear]

hi the other sound on there is the le0 2A6 sound i just run mine to see shut down is the same and turn on turret noise same

[tomhugill]

Yeah definitely the Tamiya tiger and Leo 2 sound sets in there, does the mfu board look much different?

[Ad Lav]

hi the other sound on there is the le0 2A6 sound i just run mine to see shut down is the same and turn on turret noise same

Lucky man - where did you get yours Dave!

[Ad Lav]

Inside looks fairly big for quite a squat, compact tank. I'll pop round see it soon

[wibblywobbly]

After all these years, thank you Heng Long! Well done Paul for all of the info.

All that would be needed is a Darkith board and, bingo, IR is yours.

Rob

[Raminator]

That looks great Paul, consider me jealous as hell. Looks like these'll be ripe for plenty of conversions, I'd love to see a T-72 or BMPT.

[ruben2005]

the sounds are defo king tiger and leo 2A6 i was watching the video and thought ive heard these sounds before but tank looks good and sounds good

[wibblywobbly]

Well if you fit IR to a T-90 it seems you could legitimately remove the sensors altogether.

This is from the top brass in the US.

If the war in Eastern Ukraine were a real-world test, the Russian T-90 tank passed with flying colors. The tank had seen action in Dagestan and Syria, but has been particularly decisive in Ukraine. The Ukrainians, Karber said, “have not been able to record one single kill on a T-90. They have the new French optics on them. The Russians actually designed them to take advantage of low light, foggy, winter conditions.”

What makes the T-90 so tough? For starters, explosive reactive armor. When you fire a missile at the tank, its skin of metal plates and explosives reacts. The explosive charge clamps the plates together so the rocket can’t pierce the hull.

But that’s only if the missile gets close enough. The latest thing in vehicle defense is active protection systems, or APS, which automatically spot incoming shells and target them with electronic jammers or just shoot them down. “It might use electronics to ‘confuse’ an incoming round, or it might use mass (outgoing bullets, rockets) to destroy the incoming round before it gets too close,” Army director for basic research Jeff Singleton told Defense One in an email.

The T-90’s active protective system is the Shtora-1 countermeasures suite. “I’ve interviewed Ukrainian tank gunners,” said Karber. “They’ll say ‘I had my [anti-tank weapon] right on it, it got right up to it and then they had this miraculous shield. An invisible shield. Suddenly, my anti-tank missile just went up to the sky.’”

On top of that their electro magnetic systems disable the fuses in artillery shells, and they can shut down all comms, drones etc.