After beginning preliminary testing in 2019, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced in 2021 that a first "pilot" tranche would be delivered the following year. The T-14 Armata is a new main battle tank, first revealed in Moscow back in 2015. Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images What is the T-14 Armata? The problem-plagued T-14 is reluctantly being accepted by Russian commanders in Ukraine, the British defense ministry said on Wednesday. In an intelligence update published on Wednesday morning, the MoD once again looked at Russian preparations for the first possible deployment of the main battle tank in combat.īut Russian forces deployed in Ukraine have been "reluctant to accept the first tranche of T-14 allocated to them because the vehicles were in such poor condition," the MoD wrote in a Twitter post.Īlthough the ministry could not confirm the details of the reportedly lukewarm reaction to the tank from Russian command, it suggested that a slew of delays and problems likely contributed.Ī Russian T-14 Armata tank participates in a Victory Day Parade rehearsal in Moscow on May 4, 2022. Images published by the ministry on Twitter showed two T-14 Armatas in southern Russia at a facility "associated with pre-deployment activity" for Ukraine. Russia has likely been considering whether to send a first wave of its new main battle tanks to Ukraine, the MoD said on January 19. Russia will start mass production of T-14 Armata tanks starting next year.The T-14 Armata tank, once labeled by a senior British army official as "the most revolutionary tank in a decade," is being reluctantly accepted by Russian commanders in Ukraine, the British defense ministry (MoD) said on Wednesday. The vehicle has an operational speed range of up to 500 km (310.6 mi.) and a maximum speed range of 90 km/h (56 mph).Įarlier this month, the country announced the Russian Army will receive 20 of the tanks by the end of this year. It uses a 2A82-1M 125 mm (4.92 in) smoothbore cannon with 45 rounds as its main armament, 12.7 mm (0.50 in) Kord machine gun (6P49), and 7.62 mm (0.30 in) PKTM machine gun (6P7К) as the secondary armament. It has a gross mass of 55 tonnes (55,000 kg), is 8.7 m (29 ft) long, 3.5 m (11 ft) in width, and 3.3 m (11 ft) tall. The Armata is manned and operated by three crew members. It is manufactured by Russian machine company Uralvagonzavod, with each unit valued at around $3.7 million, or around 275.5 million Russian rubles. The T-14 Armata is Russia’s newest generation of main battle tanks based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform. “For example, the T-80 tank is to a great extent used in northern latitudes,” he added.Īside from utilizing new generations of tanks for improving warcraft tactics, the commission member also said the Russian tank-building industry has worked on the “technology for repairing and upgrading all basic combat vehicles in service.” The T-14 Armata Tank The tanks “cover all of the Russian Army’s needs for this hardware,” he said, including for units stationed in the Arctic region. Mikhail Osyko, a member of Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission which is tasked with implementing state policy on military-industrial issues, told TASS that the Armata tanks will be used to “practice and improve combat employment tactics.” The Russian military will use its next-generation tank series, the T-14 Armata, as the basis for the practice and improvement of warfare tactics, the country announced.
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