Russia to Unveil Its New Tank, the T-14 Armata
By SOF
The next much talked about in recent months Russian tank is here.
The T-14 Armata will make its public debut at the 9 May Victory Day parade. The tank is intended to be the successor to the T-90, which entered service in 1992. The last American main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, first entered service in 1979.
The T-14 will feature a new 125mm main gun, the 2A82 with 32 rounds. The Russians are also planning a heavy infantry fighting vehicle companion, the T-15, to go with the T-14 Armata. And that’s not all.
A family of new combat vehicles based on the universal platform Armata will be displayed at a Victory Parade in 2015, Oleg Siyenko, General Director of the Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) research and production corporation, told ITAR-TASS in an exclusive interview at the ADEX-2014 international exhibition of armaments.
“All works are proceeding according to schedule. A whole family of armored vehicles based on the Armata platform will be displayed in a Victory Parade next year,” Siyenko said, Tass.ru.
“The newest MBT Armata has been developed by UVZ specialists on the basis of a heavy-duty platform of the same name. The platform is to be used for the development of a main battle tank, infantry combat vehicle, a heavy APC, a tank support combat vehicle, an armored repair-and-evacuation vehicle, a chassis for self-propelled artillery mounts, etc. The MBT will have a 125mm gun, remote-controlled and fully digitalized. The crew will operate the gun from an isolated armored capsule”, Tass.ru reports