Russian next generation MBT, a topic about T95 .. and beyond

It is a fiction, a novel in Clancy's style. But I think is the first Romanian tehno-thriller.
The plot is about a war started by Ukraine (a military dictatorship) against Romania. Same time, war begins in Taiwan, China tried to occupy it, and USA is involved directly.
They're many descriptions of battles in Maramures, Dobrogea, naval battle in Black Sea, many aerial fightings, bombings, tank battles, etc. Some espionage affairs, hostage rescue action, and many more. Are many maps, that the action is easy to follow.
I recomand that book, it is a fast turning page action. Here are some references, and a few maps I telling you about:

http://www.marist.ro/aparitii-candarmelevorbesc.htm

the mig project was a demonstrator a preprototipe, never suposed to be a first line fighter

It is very true, fallen of empires is an historical fact, and an historical law.
But in this moment, about Russian empire you could not be sure in what stage is it now.
It is clear that now is in refluxe, maybe reached and passed the turning point. And it looks that it will come again, will try again to regain it's staus.
And this will be the main problem for Russia and his vicinity. Will be an soft attempt, to came back with softpower, or will be a bonecrusher, like in Georgia. Or, I believe, will be both, a combination between stick and carrot. (military power and natural rezerves, bussines oporunities).
And, finally, where will arrive. A global superpower, or just a regional one. In any case, we must stand against.

thats the spirit

anyway, I feal this discussion is going towards history rather than T95 tech issues
we should get back on track

You're absolutely right, Typhon.
That is why I started a new topic, about this problems, maybe inspired by last discussion.

http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=5593

so, to get back to T95

they say it will have a POD inside the hull for the 3 men crue.

but a 3 men pod could be rather large, so where do you think it will be placed? in front or behind the turets central pilar?

depending of the pod position then we can asses where the other main components will be situated, like the engine and the fuel tank

As you can read here :
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defen...mentId=blogDest
in the article "Russia Cancels Arms Programs" :
"[...] The main victim is the mysterious Object 195 program that was aimed to develop a new generation main battle tank to replace existing T-80 and T-90 tanks in the Russian Army. The new tank also dubbed T-95 has been developed by Nizhny Tagil Uralvagonzavod armor manufacturer in complete secrecy for more than 15 years. Popovkin said the military will focus on modernization of the T-90 instead.[...]"

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%...D0%BA%D1%82_195

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-95

There are many others programs who were or will be canceled by Russians in order to focus on startegic weapons, like ICMBs aimed to penetrate the Missile Balistic Shield.

Yes contras, it's more likely that they will focus on the T-90 in an upgraded version called T-90AM :
http://russiadefence.englishboard.net/t136...t-95-and-t-90am