08 April 2011
T-90 MBT (photo : UralVagonZavod)
Uralvagonzavod
introduce a new generation of tank T-90AM at the exhibition of arms,
which will be held in Nizhny Tagil in the first half of September 2011.
On it informs RIA Novosti news agency quoting the press service of the
company. URA.RU agency wrote that the new model is a modified version of
the tank T-90.
According
to CEO UralVagonZavod Oleg Sienko, Defense declassifies new vehicle and
has already consented to the passport image. At the September
exhibition tank will be shown in action. Sienko also said that the tank
was modified based on comments the Defense Ministry.
CEO
UralVagonZavod said that at a meeting held on 8 December 2009, the
military have voiced a number of criticisms of the T-90AM. In
particular, they claim, to the engine, transmission, charge, and a host
of other things. Now, the engine became more powerful at 130 horsepower,
has changed the barrel, there was a completely different, secure
machine-gun installation.
T-95 MBT (photo : Militaryphotos)
Sienko
also said that Uralvagonzavod plans to continue upgrading its other
cars, the T-95, though the Defense Ministry in the development of the
project is not interested. Back in April 2010, First Deputy Defense
Minister of Russia Vladimir Popovkin said that the agency stopped
funding the development of T-95. However, Sienko said that it continues
to see in this machine is "more positive than negative."
Uralvagonzavod
- Russia's largest manufacturer of military equipment and various types
of freight vehicle. Oleg Sienko headed the company since 2009.
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