Putin hails Russia's test launch of new ICMB known as Satan II, calls it "most powerful missile in the world"

That’s because of his kgb background. He can run gray zone ops to his heart’s content with just nukes and espionage.

This specific tank has a sort of "capsule" for the crew instead of having the crew in stations at the gun and driver's levers, where the turret is unmanned to increase survivability and ability to man more tanks. This means the vehicle can be more armoured by focusing on the crew compartment rather than having to armour the entire interior because now the crew are concentrated both in one place and theoretically if the ammo goes off in the turret and the "capsule" is not penetrated, they would or could survive what would in previous "soviet style" designs be catastrophic and unsurvivable. Because of this, instead of traditional setups it had remote systems replacing many of the usual manual backups (of which now have been exposed as the usual Russian system of having been worse than the stats would tell) and these would be controlled by computer systems interacted with by touch screen (as there are many cameras to try and give good vision, with how you can't exactly put your eyes up to a turret cupola periscope or similar, and this is the opportunity to allow for some new benefits not previously possible. But as you said... Reliability, control issues and ergonomics? Crew members in battle need to know they're hitting the right thing and buttons, switches, levers will be hit and you'll know what you're hitting without needing to check or look. Touch screens might not register it correctly, might overshoot the input or even better damaged through the mishandling that comes with the rigours of tank life. Where I've seen touch screens genuinely succeed in the tanks I've been invited into and shown around are for example on modernised recovery vehicles and systems that need lots of cameras as mentioned that may not require the same amount of combat readiness or heated use, that /also/ have manual backups. The main one I'm thinking of had manual periscopes, touch screens for camera vision, computer sensors to warn of collisions in blindspots to add to it, all stuff that adds on but if knocked out by the million things that'll fry or break electronics on a tank would not result in loss of capability or features, like being blinded like the Armata seems to be (where it looks as though if the virtual optics went offline it would operate /almost/ blind with how little it has crew redundancy wise- Anyway, apologies this got so long, haha! Just really got my brain rolling at a bad hour with lots of pain and helped distract me from it.

well, just save something for the little boy

Flanker is even better.