Armata which has not entered the service yet can be easily destroyed with Javelin or Spike ATGMs which entered the service 20 years ago.
Lol! You need to keep urself updated, the javelin was fired on a t-72b3 in syria last year and not only the crew survived but also the tank with damage that repairable. Like I've said before the Russians r the world leaders in armour,and the armata is the pinnacle with its one of a kind afghanit APS and the malachit dual-ERA just to name a few.
The T-14 Armata is a new and advanced
main battle tank, and may be the first next generation tank to enter serial production.
[13][71] British intelligence views the unmanned turret as providing many advantages.
[72] It has been described as a major concern for Western armies.
[73][72] However, western observers question the economics of Russia's modern tanks like the T-90 and T-14 to be available in significant numbers.
[74][75]
Russia claims the tank's main armament is twenty years ahead of comparable Western tank guns and renders existing NATO anti-tank weaponry obsolete.
[55] In response to the Armata, German
Rheinmetall AG has developed a new
130mm L/51 tank gun, claiming it provides a 50% increased armor penetration over the
120mm L/55 in service with the
Bundeswehr today. Additionally, Germany and France have joined efforts to develop an unspecified "main ground combat system" (MGCS) to compete with the technological advances of the Armata and replace both the
Leclerc and
Leopard 2 MBTs around 2030.
[71][76] This is a brief NATO response.
An extract from wikipedia related to the protection:
The T-14's crew of three is protected by an internal armored capsule
[2] with more than 900 mm
RHA equivalent,
[2] increasing their chance of survival in case of a
catastrophic kill.
[25][48] Both the chassis and the turret are equipped with the
Malachit dual-
explosive reactive armour (ERA) system on the front, sides and the top.
[26][49] The turret's shape is designed to reduce its radio and thermal signature.
[26] The tank uses an integrated, computerized control system which monitors the state and functions of all tank modules. In battle, the software can analyze threats and then either suggest or automatically take actions to eliminate them, while without the external threat it can detect and rectify crew errors.
[29]Serial production of the Armata Platform's ceramic armor components began in mid-2015.
[50]
The tank features the
Afghanit (
Russian: Афганит)
active protection system (APS),
[51] which includes a millimeter-wavelength radar to detect, track, and intercept incoming
anti-tankmunitions, both
kinetic energy penetrators and
tandem-charges.
[2][52] Currently, the maximum speed of the interceptable target is 1,700 m/s (Mach 5.0), with projected future increases of up to 3,000 m/s (Mach 8.8).
[18] According to news sources, it protects the tank from all sides,
[26] however it is not geared towards shooting upwards to defend against top-attack munitions.
[53][54] These systems put the Armata a generation ahead in terms of defensive technology. Such systems are "only in their infancy on British and American tanks".
[55]
Defense Update released an analysis of the tank in May 2015, speculating that
Afghanit's main sensors are the four panels mounted on the turret's sides, which are probably AESA radar panes spread out for a 360° view, with possibly one more on top of the turret. In their opinion, the active part of the system consists of both a hard kill and soft kill element, the first of which actively destroys an incoming projectile (such as an unguided rocket or artillery shell), while the second confuses the guidance systems of
ATGMs, causing them to lose target lock. They believe that it would be effective against 3rd and 4th generation ATGMs, including
Hellfire,
TOW,
BILL,
Javelin,
Spike,
Brimstone, and
JAGM, as well as
sensor-fused weapons (SFW).
[56] Some Russian sources claim the hard-kill APS is effective even against depleted uranium-cored armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (
APFSDS) rounds traveling at 1.5–2 km/s (0.93–1.24 mi/s), but others are skeptical, saying the fragmentation charge would not do much to the dense penetrator; while it might be able to push it off course somewhat with a hit-to-kill approach, it likely won't do much to stop it.
[57] Practical tests confirmed the destruction of the uranium subcalibration projectile (goal speed up to 2 km / s).
[58]
Afghanit hard-kill launchers are the long tubes mounted in groups of five between the turret's front sides and the chassis.
[26] These send out an electronically activated charge that fires an
Explosively Formed Penetrator towards the target (in all directions).
[59] The tank is also equipped with the NII Stali Upper Hemisphere Protection Complex,
[60] which consists of two steerable cartridges with 12 smaller charges each, and a turret-top
VLS with two more similar cartridges,
[61] corresponding to the vehicle's soft kill APS.
[56] Additionally, using the AESA radar and anti-aircraft machine gun it is possible to destroy incoming missiles and slow-flying shells (except
kinetic energy penetrators).
[62]
BTW Majority of these sources r western
