This The most advanced tank ever produced by Russia already operating occupation zone of Ukraine, as shown by official Russian media and social media accounts in recent days. Famous TV presenter Vladimir Soloviev devoted part of his Christmas day program to showing reports of this tank on the ground. “I have just returned from another trip to the front line and have come up with the first images of the troop’s combat coordination. T-14-Armata tanks”, announced earlier on his Telegram account.
In the program ‘An Evening with Vladimir Solovyov’ on Russian Channel 1 (he gained worldwide fame during this war for giving voice to the most extreme military analysts, including those calling for nuclear attacks on Ukrainian and European capitals), the presenter showed several high-quality, perfectly edited pictures of his leads to a minute video. Russian soldiers are driving these masses, weighing about sixty tons, through the mud at full speed.. The exact location is unknown, but they assure that they are inside the “special operations zone”, that is, occupied Ukraine.
The tank that the Kremlin wanted to rival the German Leopard supertanks, the French Leclerc or the American Abrams on the battlefield. and duration countries NATO They are vetoing the shipment of these ultra-tech battle tanks for now. Ukraine begins to show them on the battlefield as they prepare for war, to prevent the conflict from escalating.
T-14 Armata has the following feature: turret with cannon and machine guns is unmanned and it is a separate block from the rest of the vehicle. The soldiers are below, in a separate armored capsule, in the belly of the almost four-metre-high tank. From there they control the turret from afar and this protects them better. “This is pretty rare for a tank; it is a new design with no one inside the tower and greatly increases survivability”, explains Yago Rodríguez, doctor and editor of the Political Chamber in the military innovation of the rebellion to El Periódico de España.
Another of its main features is that it has an Afghan active protection system. shoot the bullets that attack him mid-flight, an RPG anti-tank grenade or a missile. “However, it cannot stop a projectile from another tank, because it moves at a speed of up to 1.3 kilometers per second, but at the same time it can detect the source of the fired cannon in time to throw a column of smoke. direction,” explains this analyst, who has extensively studied the military vehicle.
Armed with a self-loading ball. 45 x 125mm 2A82-1M rounds, 32 of them ready to fire. The power is even greater than the German Leopard equivalent, which has a reputation as one of the best weapons in the world. It can also launch laser-guided missiles from 7 to 12 kilometers away.
Hide the trace of the engine
Armata clearly Ukraine is superior to other competitors on the battlefield. Its optics for detecting and aiming at enemies are more effective than other tanks in this battle, such as the T-72. also has the advantage. much better armored than any other tank of Soviet origin: it is a very modular armor and can be upgraded and modified very simply”.
dir-dir quite discreet. The thermal signature, the heat trace left by the engine, is pretty well hidden by a second tailpipe that blows cold air to hide the heat radiated by the main exhaust pipe.
Speed is high, up to 90 kilometers per hourThanks to the rated power of 1,300 to 1,800 horsepower. This allows this enormous vehicle, about nine meters long, 3.5 meters high and wide, to carry a weight of 55 tons. It has 500 km fuel autonomy.
T-14 Armata He was first seen at the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2015., one year after the first invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin telegraphed that thousands of units would be produced, something analysts doubted. It is estimated that there are at most a hundred of them.. A year ago, the official Russian press agency TASS reported that 20 units were delivered to the Army. And this is a war in which thousands of tanks have already been destroyed.
They were built by the Uralvagonmash Corporation, a subsidiary of the large Russian arms company Rostec. According to the Russian TV presenter, There will be at least two dozen coordinations in Ukraine. If they finally go into battle, this will be the first time for the warrior moles. “Any newcomer tank will have the usual childhood problems: maybe overheating in the direction of fire, or flaws in a gun that can’t fire many arrow-type ammunition because it wears out too much,” concludes Yago Rodríguez.