Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

It's essentially a dressed-up T-34 engine.

The engine they chose for the T-14 was so good and so efficient that the company making it couldn't even sell it to pump water.  The whole X-shaped design has been known to be a bad one for decades.  Hence why nobody's brought it beyond concept stage despite the design being around since before WW2.

+ Before the war Putin had a set of futuristic wonder weapons:
 

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The İgarek Combat Mecha:
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The Uran-9 Robotic Combat Vehicle
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The Su-57 “Felon” Fighter Jet
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And the Kinzhal Air-Launched Hypersonic Weapon
 
https://www.popularmechanics.com/militar...r-weapons/
 
No one saw any of these in the Ukrainian Battlefield. All of these are either prototypes of some potentially useful weapons or (like the Armata Tank) they have defects or cannot be produced without western components, or, they are afraid of losing them because still, the Russian military industry is not a Zero. I think they are still very advanced in terms of military technology. And actually, all these technologies are also moving toward China and Iran.
 

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