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YEKATERINBURG, February 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Uralvagonzavod company is ready to organize in Iran licensed production of the T-90S gun launcher-armed tanks if restrictions on military-technical cooperation with that country are lifted, the corporation’s deputy director general Alexey Zharich said on Wednesday. Russia’s main battle gun launcher-armed tank T-90S is equipped with an automated fire control system. It is a light tank (46.5 tons) with a low profile, which increases its survivability. "Cooperation with Iran was suspended in accordance with the presidential decree "On measures to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1020 of June 9, 2010". But if restrictions on military-technical...

Putin praises new Russian tank 12:55pm EDT NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised a new Russian tank on Friday, boosting the Uralvagonzavod company that made it after criticism of its design caused concerns that Moscow might turn to a foreign tank maker. Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said this year the new T-90S and other Russian tanks did not meet the needs of a modern army and another commander said Moscow could buy three German Leopard tanks for the price of one T-90S. But, visiting an arms fair in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil,...

NEW DELHI: The Russian T-90S main-battle tanks, recently inducted into the Army to counter Pakistan's deployment of T-80UD tanks from Ukraine, have developed technical snags within a few months. Some defence officials, however, claimed that the snags - which mainly relate to difficulty in acquisition of targets during exercises in the Rajasthan desert and lack of effective thermal and night-vision capabilities - were being studied and would soon be rectified. Defence Minister George Fernandes, in fact, admitted in Parliament that the matter of technical snags had been taken up with Russian officials during Army chief General N C Vij's recent...