Armata family
Data is a little thin on the ground for actual speed and range.
The gun is enough of a known quantity, though like all of the modern tank guns, the improvements in its penetractors over the last 20 years needs to be added in. To me, having it in a remote turret is not that different from a manned turret - movement is by the same hydraulic system; modern targetting systems don't require the gunned looking down the actual barrel. V2 had those silly remote turreted versions of the M1A3 and Leopard anyway; this is just an actual case of that. Of course, I'd ensure that turret controls is a possible critical hit, as well as turret traverse.
But then, I think a rework of technology, particularly targeting tanks, is called for in a modernized T2K system; these did not exist and a lot fo development went into these over the last 20 years....
If one takes the one that stopped in the parade as an example, maintenance may be high - or average range may be short :-)
Yes, I know these are prototypes, and the actual combat systems will supposedly have the bugs worked out. So, do you want the system as it works now, or as the Russians says it does (or will) when the bugs are all worked out. Since we know that all technology works perfectly, just as the designers say it will :-)
The key factor in evaluating this series of vehicles to me would hinge in its armor system - how well this (re)active armor system actually works, sections going off to attack incoming shells microseconds before impact.
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