Russia is moving its armored force over to the new T-14 Armata that began production in 2016.
The T-90 is the last in the line of Soviet-designed and produced battie tanks.
Wait a minute. I thought India was the Russian’s friend.
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.
Truth hurts:
The T-14 Armata tank was billed as the “world's first post-war, third-generation tank.” There was great disappointment, therefore, when the new, high-tech piece of military hardware broke down during a 2015 rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Moscow and had to be towed with ropes by another vehicle.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-most-spectacular-russian-military-failures-of-all-time-a7493186.html
In May 2018, the Kremlin had announced a new round of budget cuts, slashing annual defense spending by almost 20 percent from the previous year.
But there is also a possibility that these shortfalls have limited the resources to properly develop the T-14, as well. If the design is not mature, it would only make sense for Russia to decide to hold off mass producing the tanks. Otherwise, it could find itself face a “concurrency” dilemma by taking delivery of hundreds of armored vehicles that could need potentially significant and costly upgrades almost immediately.
We can … boost the series production [of the T-14] when needed and stay ahead of our colleagues, so to speak,” Deputy Prime Minister Borisov had claimed in 2017. He also described this as a “trump card” Russia cold play at any time.
These comments are virtually identical to ones he has made regarding the decision to push off large orders of the Su-57 stealth fighter indefinitely. The entire situation seems similar, with the Kremlin having initially expected to have hundreds of the jets in service by 2020 and various developmental and economic troubles instead having left the program in a precarious state.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22600/russia-cant-afford-its-new-t-14-armata-tanks-turns-to-updated-older-designs-instead