Why is the low end tank called the monkey version ?

The concept of the monkey version of the tank first appeared in the former Soviet Union, and the former Soviet Union would prepare two different models when developing the best equipment. One model is a high configuration with higher cost and higher cost (human version), and the other is a low configuration with lower cost (monkey version). The difference between the monkey version of the tank and the human version of the tank is like the high and low configuration in the car, in the same model, it is often divided into high and low configuration, the chassis and appearance of the high configuration model and the low configuration model are not large, but the engine, gearbox, safety configuration, and technology configuration will have a relatively large gap, and the feeling of driving is completely different.

The appearance of the monkey version of ** was mainly due to the experience of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, in order to reduce the production of equipment, the Soviet Union often subtracted unnecessary configurations to improve the cost performance. This simplified ** combat effectiveness will not drop too much, but the cost is much lower than the original **.

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union prepared a corresponding simplified version for each type of development, so as to improve the competitiveness of the Soviet Union's exports.

Most of the tanks exported during the Soviet era were simplified monkey tanks, which is the main reason why Soviet-style tanks often dropped their chains on the battlefield. The emergence of the monkey version of the tank had three benefits for the Soviet Union, the first of which was that the Soviet Union's **** was relatively reduced, and its competitiveness in the international arms sales market was greatly improved. The second benefit is that the Soviet Union itself can also be equipped with some monkey tanks, and the number of tanks equipped by the Soviet army can also be increased.

In its heyday, the Soviet Union had more than 50,000 tanks, several times more than in Western countries, and some of them were simplified monkey tanks.

The third advantage is the secrecy of the technology that is beneficial to the Soviet Union, and many countries will conduct research and imitation after purchasing. Since the Soviet Union did not export the real main tank, even if the Soviet Monkey version of the tank was copied, or the Western countries found a weak point, it would not affect the combat effectiveness of the Monkey version of the tank. In fact, the Soviet Union not only had a monkey version of the tank, but also the Soviet fighter plane.

Because of the influence of the Soviet monkey version, many military fans later habitually called the export version of the monkey version, and the export tank was also called the monkey version of the tank.

Because the former Soviet Union will be divided into the human version and the monkey version, of which the human version is the original genuine, the process is complex, the performance is excellent, is the regular version, the monkey version as the name suggests, compared to the human version of the process is simple, the performance is lacking, and can not realize the full function of the human version.

The Monkey version of the tank came from the Soviet Union, and because of the experience of the war, in order to reduce the production cost of equipment and reduce the production time, the configuration of the tank was simplified.

The low configuration ** is called the monkey version, which should have been first put forward by Liezun in one of his books The Inside Story <>of the Soviet Army, mainly refers to the fact that the Soviet Army ** is simple, but there is a simpler version, that is, the monkey type, and the more formal statement is to simplify the export type, not only tanks, but also airplanes have this practice

It was in this book that I first saw the monkey version of the tank. The author of this book is a Soviet defector, and the most famous work of the dude is the icebreaker, in which a plan for a big thunderstorm is proposed.

This simplified export type is no different from the original ** from the appearance, but the level of internal equipment is far worse, for example, in the original Soviet Union export **, MiG-23 fighter, the maximum range of the radar used by the Soviet army is 85 km, and the maximum range of the export type is 29 km, it is the original MiG-21 radar, as well as the radar alarm, the Soviet army's own model covers a relatively large area, and the export type of the radar warning range is relatively small. \

In the first Gulf War, Iraq's T-72s were beaten all over the sky by the U.S. military. <>

After the Soviet tanks were exported, the most shrinking was the armor of the tank and the shells used in it, and the same is true for the Americans, whose M-1A1 tanks exported to Saudi Arabia were equipped with the original composite armor instead of the depleted uranium armor used by the United States itself. The sandwich in the middle of the composite armor of the T-72 tank exported by the Soviets to Iraq is ordinary borax, while the Soviet Union itself uses ceramic balls or ceramic sheets, and artillery shells are equipped with old models of ammunition, etc., these tanks look no different from the original on the side, but the internal equipment is much simplified, and the performance is far inferior to the model used by the exporting country. <>

Export tanks are usually the most degraded in armor compared to self-use tanks. <>

It is a common practice that the export type is not as good as the same model used by the country, and it is the case in every country in the world, especially when this kind of equipment has just begun to equip the troops. However, if this kind of ** equipment has been around for a long time, then the new export of this ** may be better than the self-use model, such as the F15K exported from the United States to South Korea, which will perform better than the earlier F-15E. The same is true for tanks, although the M1 tanks exported by the United States to Saudi Arabia and Egypt are not as good as the M-1A2 of the US military, they are certainly much better than the early M-1, after all, when the M-1 first came out, it still used 105 guns.

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The monkey version of the tank was first made in the former Soviet Union**, and the same ** was called differently due to different configurations. The low-end ones are called the "monkey version", and the high-end ones are called the "human version".

Because although the appearance of these tanks is a high-end configuration, the internal configuration and electronic equipment are a grade lower than the normal configuration, so it is called the monkey version.

Because of the low configuration of the tank, except for the high mobility, everything else is slower than the normal tank. And generally low-profile tanks are used to play tricks. It's like playing monkey, so it's called the monkey version.

Because the low-profile version of the tank is very powerful, it can only play a short-term deterrent role, and it is of little use.