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Position of the Russian Federation on the market of heavy armored vehicles are contradictory, says expert
09:51 14/04/2011 14/04/2011 09:51
April 14 - RIA Novosti. Russia's position on the world market of heavy armored vehicles (BBT) look inconsistent, to change the situation, a qualitative leap in the creation of a new generation of armored vehicles, said in an interview with RIA Novosti Deputy Director, Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Konstantin Makiyenko.
As noted Makienko, on the one hand, due to export T-90S tanks (primarily contracts with India and Algeria) Russia from 2000 to 2009 became nominally the world's largest exporter of tanks, new buildings, but at the same time, significant breakthroughs outside India and Algeria, this machine is not provided.
Moreover, a certain stagnation of the technical level of the T-90 with an increase in its value has led to the fact that China with its export tanks VT1A able by the end of the decade to reach the level of competitiveness in relation to T-90, the expert said.
In this case, according to Makienko, China as a cheaper tank for export begins to offer its tanks such as 96, and in the future may bring to the market and your main tank type 99, thus creating a niche in this wide range of proposals to combat capabilities and value . Alarm signal can be considered, and the loss of T-90 in the Malaysian tender Polish Main Battle Tank PT-91M (based on the Soviet T-72).
The disadvantage of the Russian market positioning of main battle tank is the narrowness of the Russian proposals, the proposed designs and aging in general is a clear lack of flexibility in responding to market demands and needs of potential clients. Russian tank development, said Makiyenko, need some kind of breakthrough for a new generation of armored vehicles. Such a breakthrough can be achieved only by bringing in a fairly short period of time prior to the actual state of the existing tank platforms, such as T-90AM.
T-90AM (object 188M) - a new modernized version of the T-90 development of the Urals Transport Machinery Design Bureau (UKBTM). The car has received a new tower with the new autoloader with the placement of the ammunition in the rear niche, new monitoring devices, improved security, possibly installing a new 125-mm 2A82 gun. In this guise tank roughly corresponds to the most modern western third generation machines. В 2009-2010 годы были построены несколько опытных образцов Т-90АМ, Russian Defense Ministry with respect to it is still uncertain, and it is not clear whether the machine will develop, says the analyst.
As noted Makienko, long time, the development tank production in Russia associated with the creation of a new generation of tank UKBTM "object 195" (sometimes referred to as T-95), a fundamentally new design. This machine had the location of the crew in an isolated compartment in the body, issued placement of weapons (152 mm and 30 mm gun), new surveillance systems and fire control, tank management information systems, active protection systems, motors promising types. Prototypes of the tank were tested, but in 2010 research and development program was stopped the Russian Defense Ministry on the pretext of excessive cost and complexity of the tank.
