After all, the current T-90, Russia's main battle to date is based on the T-72, a 1970 design. The war in Chechnya which saw catastrphic losses of the latest Russian MTB (badly used in urban combat however) and the T-90 along with several concepts for a future design motivated for the contruction of a brand new generation tank, in complete rupture with pas designs. After all, the T-14 Armata did not even trigerred a strong reaction like announcing a new MTB, but perhaps a Franco-German project for the far future. However as information seeped-in, that fear mitigated and countermeasures were adopted by NATO. Nevertheless, the tank at first shocked the west when first revealed, using concepts that were in total break from Soviet-era designs. Only a batch of 100 has been delivered so far, deployed with the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division, in planned service for 2022. However finances problems delayed the order until 2025, before the cancellation of the entire production run. The Russian Army planned to acquire 2,300 of them as for 2015, until 2020. This is the first series-produced next-generation tank. The name derives from the Armata Universal Combat Platform, also declined into a multitude of other designs.
The T-14 "Armata", also known under its industrial designation as "Ob'yekt 148" (Объект 148) is the latest generation Russian main battle tank, and arguably a very innotaive design. T-14 Armata Russia (2014) - MBT - Circa 100 built The last generation Russian Main Battle Tank
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