Russia is moving its armored force over to the new T-14 Armata that began production in 2016.
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I heard that the T-14 program was cancelled as it was too expensive.
In Russia, vodka is the key ingredient in all their design meetings. In fact, I think they would prefer to be partly paid in vodka, like how Roman soldiers were partly paid in salt.
They just ordered some: https://thediplomat.com/2018/08/russia-orders-132-t-14-armata-main-battle-tanks-and-t-15-infantry-fighting-vehicles/
The conflicting reports may be classic Russian maskirovka. That said, outside observers have noted that Russia does really seem to be building T-14s and T-15s in addition to modernizing their older tanks. The guess is that they will use the T-14s and T-15s as the tip of the spear in peer combat and the heavily modernized T-90MS’s and T-72B3M/B3M2s will be used to follow up or in brushfire conflicts like Syria - much like we did with the M60s after the Abrams began entering service.
I heard something similar. The T-14 Armada line is, or will be, shutdown.