The delay in the receipt by the Russian army of the first T-14 Armata tanks may " indicate a number of problems in the design," the Defence24 portal reports.
The Polish edition draws attention to the fact that the Russian military received the first batch of not serial, but experimental versions of the T-14 Armata.
"The demand of the Russian army for the T-14 is approximately 2,300 units. Nevertheless, the production of such a quantity can be very difficult for the military industry, in particular, for Uralvagonzavod (...) since he has been struggling with financial problems for a long time," the portal writes.
In August, the first deputy general director of Rostec, Vladimir Artyakov , said that the state corporation had shipped the first batch of T-14 Armata tanks to the Russian troops. In the same month, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko announced that by the end of this year, the Russian army will receive 20 T-14 Armata tanks. According to Mikhail Osyko, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia, the new tanks " will work out and improve the tactics of combat use, because this is a conceptually different machine."
In January last year, the American publication The Diplomat wrote that the supply of T-14 tanks and T-15 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), created on the basis of the Armata platform, to the Russian Armed Forces (AF) is delayed not only because of the need to prepare production facilities. "Military analysts point to problems with the power plant, transmission and the T-14 sighting system, along with others, as the reason for the next delays," the publication claimed at the time.
Ivan Potapov
