Object 292

Object 292

Object 292

USSR

VII Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
10.0	10.0	10.0

Class:

Medium tank

Purchase:Bundle or Gift

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Description

The Object 292 was the among one of the most ambitious attempt at the final days of Soviet Union as the next-generation tank cannon testbed; Kirov Plant and Mobile Vehicle Engineering Institute planned to introduce the very high-caliber smoothbore cannon for Soviet MBT to disable NATO MBTs at longest possible distance, instead of the conventional 125 mm or slightly larger 130 mm which were still common calibers in Warsaw-Pact countries, engineers built the largest smoothbore tank cannon ever to present date - 152.4 mm LP-83 cannon and mounted it onto a hybrid between T-80BV and T-80U's turret. Due to the lack of funding by the last days of Soviet Union, although the cannon was proved effective during field tests, the prototype was eventually ditched with experiences would be further used on future MBT prototypes.

Object 292 is a reward for the 2024 Call of the Dragon event during Update "Air Superiority". Players might feel deja vu when they first see the vehicle itself, although it looks like a T-80U without ERA packages, but the lack of any anti-aircraft machine gun and the much larger cannon gives its identity away. It might not have the best possible armor at its tier, but the sheer penetration and damage from this monstrous 152 mm cannon can end the service of most if not all MBTs it might ever face; be sure to make every shot counts as a missed/ineffective shot marks the death sentence of Object 292.

General info

Survivability and armour

Composite armour

Balanced protection against all types of ammunition

ESS

Creation of a smoke screen in the direction of movement of the vehicle

Self-entrenching equipment

Creation of ramparts and trenches in soft ground

Armourfront / side / back

Hull135 / 85 / 45

Turret140 / 110 / 65

Crew3 people

Visibility74 %

If players do not recall the chassis and design of Object 292, the engine sound will certain gives it away; in this case, the chassis is T-80BV without its Kontakt-1 ERA blocks while the turret is from T-80U without the Kontakt-5 ERA blocks. It can be said that Object 292 is somewhat a T-80U with T-80BV's composite armor layout (T-80U has a revised composite armor based on T-80BV's design), but the lack of Kontakt-5 also means it only has the base armor at around 550 mm KE; the turret is another story though, since it used a revised T-80U turret, it will have better protection than T-80B series thanks to the new composite armor layout with high protection; this also leads to redesign of mantle thus it has much smaller area than conventional designs, the area around the gun can go up to 500 mm KE protection, making it much harder for lower-tier tanks to penetrate the turret. Be careful for lucky shots on the mantle around the barrel as it can also lead to disablement of the turret system or sometimes quick knock-out to the turret crews.

The overall internal layout is very similar to most Warsaw-Pact/Chinese MBTs with a carousel autoloader located at the center mass of the vehicle, but instead of having the projectile laying below the propellent like the 6eTS series autoloader on T-64/80 series, the autoloader only consists of the projectile itself and the propellent is located behind the turret instead with rammer, this in turn slows the reload rate to 10 seconds per round; the three-men crew is also retained on Object 292 with identical layout to T-80 series - thus any penetrated shots up front will very likely disable the driver at the first place, then causing fatal damage to the turret crews by both the projectile and shrapnel; to make matters worse, if players decided to bring full-load at 30 rounds, there will be 14 spare propellent located exactly behind the autoloader on the chassis. It is never a good idea to turn Object 292 into a gas-turbine-driven mobile firework launcher.

Armour type:

Armour	Front (Slope angle)	Sides	Rear	Roof
Hull	260 mm (69°)	55 - 70 - 80 mm Top 20 (32°) [+ 20 mm] Bottom	10-20-50 mm	30 - 20 mm
Turret	~250 - ~550 - ~1000 mm (Variable thickness) + 495mm (Composite) Turret front ~130 - ~250 - ~1000mm (Variable thickness) mm Gun mantlet	~650 - ~400 - ~160 mm (Variable thickness) + 495mm - 265 mm (Composite) Turret 45 mm (0°) Ammo Rack	45 (0°) - 45 (78°) mm	45 mm - ~500 (Variable thickness + composite) mm Turret 30 - 45 mm Ammo Rack
Cupola	45 mm (35 - 43°)	45 mm (35°)	45 mm (30°)	45 mm

Notes:

Mobility

Speedforward / back

AB78 / 13 km/h

RB and SB70 / 11 km/h

Number of gears9 forward

1 back

Weight46.0 t

Engine power

AB2 099 hp

RB and SB1 100 hp

Power-to-weight ratio

AB45.6 hp/t

RB and SB23.9 hp/t

To boost the tank with its larger gun, the engine is upgraded from the original Klimov GTD-1000 to the GTD-1250 used on T-80U series; thus it will have enhanced mobility than a conventional T-80BV while players still have to be careful not to over-extend since the relative-slow reverse speed for Soviet tanks still haunts Object 292.

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
	Forward	Reverse		Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade	78	13	46	1,705	2,099	37.07	45.63
Realistic	70	11		973	1,100	21.15	23.91

Modifications and economy

Repair costBasic → Reference

AB4 285 → 6 607

RB4 153 → 6 403

SB4 853 → 7 483

Total cost of modifications207 300

348 000

Talisman cost2 800

Crew training200 000

Experts710 000

Aces2 100

Research Aces1 080 000

Reward for battleAB / RB / SB

150 / 200 / 250 %

232 / 232 / 232 %

Modifications

Mobility	Protection	Firepower
Tracks Research: 11 000 Cost: 17 000 310 Suspension Research: 10 000 Cost: 16 000 280 Brake System Research: 10 000 Cost: 16 000 280 Filters Research: 14 000 Cost: 22 000 390 Transmission Research: 18 000 Cost: 28 000 510 Engine Research: 18 000 Cost: 28 000 510	Improved Parts Research: 3 300 Cost: 17 000 310 Dozer Blade Research: 11 000 Cost: 17 000 310 Improved FPE Research: 3 000 Cost: 16 000 280 Crew Replenishment Research: 14 000 Cost: 22 000 390 NVD Research: 14 000 Cost: 22 000 390 ESS Research: 18 000 Cost: 28 000 510	Horizontal Drive Research: 11 000 Cost: 17 000 310 Adjustment of Fire Research: 10 000 Cost: 16 000 280 Laser rangefinder Research: 10 000 Cost: 16 000 280 Elevation Mechanism Research: 14 000 Cost: 22 000 390 Artillery Support Research: 18 000 Cost: 28 000 510

Armaments

Laser rangefinder

Reduces the error and increases the maximum measurable distance of the rangefinder

Night vision device

Improves visibility by enhancing natural light or active illumination.

Main armament

152 mm LP-83 cannon

Two-plane stabilizer

Reduces the swing of the gun in two planes while moving

Autoloader

Automatically feeds projectiles into the breech. The speed does not depend on the skills of the loader

Ammunition30 rounds

Reload10.0 s

Vertical guidance-5° / 15°

To engage and destroy NATO MBTs from the longest possible distance with a single shot, Soviet engineers came up with their ultimate solution: instead for opting missiles or 125 mm gun with longer barrel, they decided to opt of enlarging the caliber to 152.4 mm which is still currently the largest smoothbore cannon (aside from 2A83 on Object 195 with identical caliber) both in-game and reality. Although the installation of such a huge cannon into T-80U's turret is not a major problem and it could retain identical, relatively slow turret traverse speed for Soviet-era MBTs, the tank also replaced the 6eTS series autoloader into an unique design specifically for this very cannon, thus the reload rate was drastically decreased to 10 seconds per shot (consecutive shots without changing type of ammunition) - the firepower itself is fearsome indeed with only very few MBT can survive a shot onto their UFP, but missed shots are also likely to be the end of Object 292 as enemies could fire up to 2 shots during the 10 seconds reload.

152 mm LP-83					Turret rotation speed (°/s)					Reloading rate (seconds)
Mode	Capacity	Vertical	Horizontal	Stabilizer	Stock	Upgraded	Full	Expert	Aced	Autoloader
Arcade	30	-5°/+15°	±180°	Two-plane	22.8	31.6	38.4	42.5	45.2	10.00
Realistic					14.3	16.8	20.4	22.6	24.0

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
152 mm APFSDS	APFSDS	695	693	687	680	673	665
152 mm HE	HE	61	61	61	61	61	61

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
152 mm APFSDS	APFSDS	1,980	7	-	-	-	78°	80°	81°
152 mm HE	HE	920	45.9	0.3	0.1	8.62	79°	80°	81°

Ammo racks

Full ammo	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	4th rack empty	5th rack empty	6th rack empty	Visual discrepancy
30	__ (+__)	__ (+__)	__ (+__)	__ (+__)	__ (+__)	__ (+__)	__

Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

Pros:

• 152mm main gun enables this tank to engage targets from long distances
• Blow out panels help survivability (beware that the blow out panels are only for the charge storage)
• The gun can penetrate nearly all other tanks armour it can meet

Cons:

• The armor is lacking
• No coaxial machine gun
• Only three crew members
• Long reload

History

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Media

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See also

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External links

• [Devblog] Call of the Dragon: Object 292