Now the company is
completing the main stages of the preparatory work.
MOSCOW, February 3.
/TASS/. The deliveries of the armor based on the Armata combat platform to the
troops for operational evaluation will begin this year, CEO of the
Uralvagonzavod defense manufacturer Alexander Potapov said in an interview with
Vedomosti newspaper published on Monday.
"In 2020, we
will begin the deliveries for the operational evaluation of this armor. During
the factory tests, all the vehicle’s stated characteristics were
confirmed," the chief executive said.
The defense
manufacturer is completing the main stages of the preparatory work, which
allows launching serial production, he said.
"No country in
the world has such a tank and our rivals won’t have anything even close to that
in coming years. Those who say that difficulties arise in the process forget
that the T-72 tank was developed for quite a longer period while we talk about
a principally new product," the chief executive said.
Replying to a
question about when the export deliveries of the Armata tank may begin, he
specified that all the foreign customers preferred making purchases, as a rule,
when the product was bought by Russia’s Defense Ministry. "We will shortly
develop an export configuration certificate while the deliveries may become
real already in the foreseeable future, given an official decision," he
said.
Head of Russia’s
state hi-tech corporation Rostec Sergei Chemezov told TASS in mid-January that
the deliveries of the armor based on the Armata combat platform to the troops
had not started yet.
The Armata is a heavy
tracked standardized platform serving as the basis to develop a main battle
tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored personnel carrier and some other
armored vehicles. The T-14 tank based on the Armata platform was shown to the
public for the first time at Red Square’s Victory Day parade on May 9, 2015.
The new combat vehicle features fully digitized equipment, an unmanned turret
and an isolated armored capsule for the crew.
Source: ITAR-TASS
03-02-2020
