T-90S tank / Photo from Rosoboronexport official site
Posted on 07/14/2004 9:01:35 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Russia’s state unitary enterprise “Uralvagonzavod,” the country’s top battle tank producer, on Sunday signed a production deal with Pakistan, a day after the country’s Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the Pakistan Times newspaper reports.
The ’tank production’ deal between the Uralvagonzavod plant and Islamabad was signed on the sidelines of the “UralArmsExpo” exhibition in Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk region.
“We can say that tank-production contracts between Uralvagonzavod and Pakistan have been clinched,” the director of the Union of Regional Defence Industry, Viktor Batuyev, was quoted as saying by the agency without giving any details.
After his talks with Lavrov yesterday, Kasuri said both Moscow and Islamabad had agreed to upgrade their bilateral relations, while the Russian Foreign Minister said no concrete defense cooperation plans were discussed by them.
Russian news agencies reported that Pakistan would receive a large batch of modern T-90S battle tanks. A short time ago, Uralvagonzavod supplied 300 such tanks to India — Pakistan’s main rival in the Hindustan region.
The T-90 has a Russian APFSDS shell. The real difference is optics. We can identifiy them from beyond 4km, they cannot. We still have first shot, first kill, but combat is often chaotic and identificationmay take time, especially since blue on blue incidents are seriously frowned upon. At 2KM or less, I would preffer that our enemies have a t-72, T-55 or worse.
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