Employee Center foreign military studies U.S. has called the creation of "Armata" ingenious and practical step.

Russia Expert Charles Bartels (Charles Bartles), working at a think tank foreign military studies (Foreign Military Studies Office), located in the United States army, noted that even though the Kremlin and keeps secret the characteristics of the new tank, the Ministry is well aware of the tank.

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According to Bartle, T-14 weighs about 50 tons, equipped with a gas turbine engine, outstanding 1500 HP, and its crew of three people. Tankers are inside an armored capsule, located an hour in the front of the machine. T-14 differs powerful protection - both composite and dynamic, writes medium.com.



In a desert tower has smoothbore 125-mm gun, which is precisely the guns of the T-90 by 15-20%, says the Russian military press.According to Bartle, sighting system T-14 one hundred percent computerized, the weapon is equipped with an automatic loader. As additional weapons tank equipped with 30-mm anti-aircraft cannon to destroy the drones and attack helicopters and 12.7-mm machine gun.

Charles compared the "Armata" giant "LEGO": according to him, on a universal platform, the Russians are going to build specialized machinery 13. Among them - infantry fighting vehicle, combat engineer machine, self-propelled, actually the T-14 and others.



Creating a universal platform "Armata" Bartels called ingenious and practical step: have the ability to create a variety of combat vehicles on a single chassis, it's cheaper than to design separately, to the same Park this technique is easier to maintain.



In particular, Bartels noticed that predict faults and carry out repairs much easier for combat vehicles with the same type of chassis, plus you can always use a piece of equipment as donors for repair.

the Plan of construction 2300 tanks by 2020, which would represent up to 70% of the tank fleet of Russia, the expert called overly optimistic and suggested that it can execute the Russians will have to sell some tanks for export.

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