Planes, Trains and T110s

The_Chieftain: I'm not sure I'd pay too much attention to the loose reports of T-14's performance in Syria, and neither would I be too worried about the possibility of one loss. I don't think they are claiming the things to be invulnerable, and one nice thing about field testing is that it's a learning experience. If they did take a loss, I'm sure someone is going to go take a look and find out why. It's like the deal with all the rocket launches in North Korea failing. They do many repeated fails, and it leads to mocking. Then, suddenly, they get rockets which start to work. Failure is a natural progression point in making a complicated thing which works.  Further, for all we know it could have been a genuine fluke. And, as Katori says, the TOW-2B, if indeed that's what was used, is nothing to sneeze at either. One loss out of three impacts, does not ask the question of how many were non-impacts because of APS, for example. Depending on how they were used, they could have been used as a punching bag for ATGM gunnery target practice, and only taken three hits and one loss.