Russia will adopt a new tank Armada

28.04.2011 13:40
Russia in 2015 will adopt a new main battle tank under the provisional name "Armada". On this, as reported by Interfax, said Lt. Gen. Yuri Kovalenko, a former first deputy chief of avtobronetankovogo Ministry of Defense of Russia. In the future, the new tank will be the main combat unit in the Russian Army.

"Since 2015, the Armed Forces will be a new main tank, with fundamentally new tactical and technical characteristics, with a new automatic delivery of ammunition, with the division of the crew, with the removal of munitions" - told Kovalenko at a round table on MBT T-90 . In addition, the autoloader "Armada" will be 32 rounds for different purposes, and the tank will be able to fire on the move. According to Kovalenko, the car will be applied developments MBT other projects, including the Black Eagle.

Other technical details of future tanks Kovalenko did not elaborate. In October 2010, the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda wrote that Russia is developing "unified platform heavy" cipher "Armata, to replace the technically difficult and uneconomic project" Object 195 ", better known as T-95. It is assumed that "Armata" will be easier and cheaper T-95, but will inherit many of its technologies.

"Object-195" was designed as a replacement for the Russian main battle tank T-90. This MBT was the location of the crew in an isolated ward, new systems of surveillance and fire control, information management system, the active protection and new engines. Russian Defense Ministry stopped funding a project to develop the T-95 in 2010, citing the complexity and high cost of the machine.

In early April 2011 it became known that Uralvagonzavod in September show at the arms exhibition in Nizhny Tagil, an upgraded version of the T-90A - T-90AM. This machine is equipped with a new autoloader, observation devices, protection and gun. Specifications T-90AM until not fully known. The troops, he will gradually replace the T-90 from previous versions.