The Russian defense Ministry has bought about a hundred of the newest tanks on the platform “Armata”, but on this purchase until you are suspended. Why the Agency “does not force” the purchase of these tanks and what are the prospects for the development of the “Armata”?
Deputy defense Minister of Russia for armaments Yuri Borisov said about the purchase of office hundreds of the newest tank “Armata”, noting that while this procurement and limited. At the moment, “Armata” is being tested in the army, according to Borisov, the military machine “happy.”
“We continue testing the “Armata”, and a limited number of these have already been contracted, from memory, about 100 machines. We are accelerating these purchases for a number of reasons. There is a principle of reasonable sufficiency,” he told Russian news agencies Borisov.
The Deputy Minister once again emphasized the potential good of the modernization of T-72 tanks, which the company now brings to the level of T-72Б2. As earlier in interview “Газете.Ru” reported the head of UVZ Oleg Sienko, T-72Б3 has more powerful compared to the predecessor engine and it has an additional tower defense elements, side projections and bottom. In 2016 the Ministry of defense will deliver around 200 deeply modernized T-72Б3.
As explained “Газете.Ru” a source in the defense Ministry, to keep up the pace of re-equipping the army with the decline in funding was made possible by “unaccounted for when planning deep modernization potential” technique that was created in Soviet time, in particular T-72 tanks.
“Just from lack of money begin to look for opportunities to solve problems in other ways and, of course, less money to achieve the same result. This is the right path. On the one hand, it allows to control the process of admission to engineering troops, which really is a combat. On the other hand it restrains to some extent the arms race and rapid growth of the military budget. This is a reasonable state approach,” the source said, adding on “Armata” that “machines in the contract less than a few hundred”.
Earlier Oleg Sienko reported that there is a government resolution that establishes the purchase of the Ministry of defense 2300 tanks “Armata”.
The cost of a single tank “Armata” from an experimental batch, according to “Газеты.Ru” approximately 350 million rubles at receipt in series it will decrease to 300 million.
Actually, the price has always been the main complaint of the military to industry. It is clear that the development of new technology is always expensive, especially while machines did not become serial. According to Deputy Chairman of the Board of the military-industrial Commission Oleg Bochkarev, the technical requirements for the “Armata” is set at a level “higher than international standards”, and to date, no such technical decisions in any army there is no peace. He also explained how you plan to cheapen the miracle of Russian armored vehicles.
“Maybe we give up some bells and whistles. But on those machines, which will be used in experimental troop operation, will be everything we thought, everything was ready for our industry. Everything is done according to customer’s requirement, and when the operation will begin and it becomes clear that a certain parameter is not demanded, then it can be waived. We will also go the way of simplification of some systems. The features that we provide are very costly. Simplifying some things, we will not lose the properties of this machine, but will save a lot in price,” — said Bochkarev RIA “Novosti”.
It should be noted that, in the words of the General Director of Uralvagonzavod Oleg Sienko, “Armata” today is “three times cheaper than the American Abrams, German Leopard or the French Leclerc. “Exactly three times. His potential is much higher,” he said in an interview with RIA “Novosti”. In open sources, the cost of Abrams for the U.S. army in 2012 was estimated to be $5.5– $ 6.1 million
The public premiere of “Armata” was held at the Victory parade in Moscow in 2015. As is known, during the preparation for the parade one of the tanks died. Defense Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin then explained the incident of the human factor. Simply put, soldiers have pressed the wrong button. Hence the question: who should control the “Armata” in the future? The answer — “this is a machine for professionals”.
To produce the “Armata” commercially the plant is ready now, but waiting for the go-ahead from the military. In the meantime, go test, collect the comments of Industrialists. For example, there is a problem with the steel, made of various gears. “There are things that were not taken into account, for example resonance phenomena, with which we never in the tank is not encountered, because this machine is heavier than the previous one. Need time to finalize. The main thing is reliability,” says Sienko.
To say that the perspectives of “Armata” is large, so be humble;. Today we know that the point of this tank is its a desert the tower, the crew is in a separate capsule, where remotely controls the instrument. As Russian main battle tank T-90, “Armata” is an active protection system capable of destroying incoming anti-tank ammunition in automatic mode without human intervention.
Besplatnosti the main idea of the future “Armata”. On its basis it is easy to create the robot. Manufacturers claim that in case of need to introduce this innovation can be very fast.
In addition it will increase the power of the engine of the latest of the tank — 1300 HP it will lead to 1.5 thousand HP Expecting Industrialists from the defense Ministry order on “high-power gun” caliber 152 mm. Today, the “Armata” equip a gun of 125 mm. it Should be noted that future tanks have radar that simultaneously monitors up to 40 land and 25 air targets within a radius of 100 km.
After the parade the 70th anniversary of the Victory of the interest in the “Armata” began to show several countries, in particular India, China and South East Asia. But until the tank is no future for the export of the passport. And understanding the value of a promising technology, it is worth considering that to purchase “Armata” will be able only countries with a very good economy. And while the public has been waiting for this tank in the Victory parade on May 9, and hopes to show the firepower of this machine in the military salon Russia Arms Expo – 2017 in Nizhny Tagil.
