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Forbes: Sophistication of “Almaty” will become a problem for the Russian tank
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Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov announced back in April that Russia plans to start working with foreign customers of the T-14 Armata tank in 2021 and has already received several preliminary requests. However, Forbes experts doubt that there will be many buyers for the Russian tank, the reason for which may be its excessive "sophistication".
Since the tank was presented to the general public in 2015, the Russian Federation has been touting the virtues of the next generation combat vehicle. The T-14 is equipped with an active anti-tank missile defense system, sophisticated sensors and a data network, a high degree of automation, and a 125-mm cannon housed in an unmanned turret - the crew is in a relatively safe place inside a thick armored hull.
A number of military experts believe that Armata is superior in its combat qualities to Western models of the Cold War era: the American M-1 Abrams, the German Leopard-2 and the British Challenger-2.
The new Russian tank - a departure from the traditional Russian structures tank equipment World War II or Cold War times, such as the T-34, T-55 and T-72, which emphasized the mass production of simple equipment. Instead, the T-14 is closer to the western concept of fewer expensive but high-tech armored tanks.
But the T-14 Armata is very expensive, and the Russian army cannot afford to buy a large number of such tanks, the price of which is about $ 4 million per unit of equipment. Due to the high cost, the Russian budget cut the number of Armats acquired by 2025 from 2,300 to 132.
What else, besides the high price, can scare away potential buyers from the T-14?
- Western analysts ask a question.
Traditional Russian weapons are fairly easy to use (like the Kalashnikov assault rifle), but the new Armata is completely different. Given the sophistication of the tank, there will be few people willing to purchase it. Perhaps the UAE and Egypt can do this - they have experience in using American, European and Russian weapons. Algeria could also be a buyer, given that it already has sophisticated Russian military equipment - for example, the recently delivered Terminator anti-tank vehicle. Finally, India is a key destination for the RF's high-tech weapons systems, such as the T-90 tank.
- noted in an interview with Forbes Samuel Bendett - an expert on the Russian armed forces at the Center for Naval Analysis of the United States.
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