Remember the
"Giraffe" Abrams? 🙂
If you like things like that there was also a slew of oddities on the other side, probably the closest that came to fruition was Obyekt 195 "T-95", a truly frightening monster of an MBT mounting a 152mm smoothbore gun and featuring many of the aspects that would come to pass on the T-14
"Armata" such as the turbocharged diesel engine and remote turret.
While it seemed fairly unlikely at the time it was a possible rare tank that might have been fielded in small numbers. It's unknown if it was to have the same heavy IFV and APC versions that the T-14 has it but would definitely work in close coordination with the most up to date Soviet versions.
It would have featured either a prototype
Relikt ERA or the existing
Kontakt-5 ERA. It had a funky 30mm co-axial automatic cannon,
Shtora-1 laser jammer and
Drozd active counter measures as well as the first Russian thermographic system.
Its backbone is the 152 mm 2A83 smoothbore gun, now awaiting further development. This is no low velocity gun but a special system with a long-throw autoloader so it could fire very long-rod APFSDS rounds, heavy ATGMs equal to Hellfire or TOW and honking great HE or HEAT rounds.
All in all it would have been a bad thing to have on the other side. In real life it was deferred as too many parts were sourced from successor states so a total redesign was done that put it back until now.
(Note that Paul Mulcahy's site has old data but the armour should be right)
