Armata tank
The Russian military will introduce a new generation of armored combat vehicles collectively called the Armata next year to replace its existing armored war machines, according to Russian state media.
Production of the new armored vehicles is expected to start at “the beginning of 2015 in January” and two dozen of the new machines are expected to participate in the Victory Day parade in Moscow next year.
“The first batch will be available next year. You will see them in Red Square on May 9,” according to Oleg Bochkaryov, deputy chairman of Russia’s military-industrial commission, told the state-run ITAR-TASS news agency on November 18.
The Armata is being developed in multiple variants, including a main battle tank, infantry fighting vehicle, a heavy-armored personnel carrier, self-propelled artillery and two support vehicle variants.
The Armata will ultimately replace the aged T-64, T-72, T-80 and comparatively newer T-90 tanks by the 2030s.
According to ITAR-TASS, the main battle-tank variant will be armed with a 125-mm cannon—which has been the standard on Soviet-built hardware in the 1960s—but the weapon will be mounted on an unmanned turret. The crew will be housed in a separate armored compartment—which is a unique configuration for any modern main battle tank in the world.
The Armata program appears to place a far higher priority on crew survivability than any previous Soviet or Russian tank.
Speculation on current Russian research involves making the tank invisible to radar by adapting stealth technologies originally designed for aircraft and a variety of luminosity and color shaping technologies. Research is also ongoing in armor systems and new propulsion units in Russia at this time.
The Defense Department declined comment in this matter.
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