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| Vladislav Perminov |
Moscow. 9th of September. Interfax-AVN - The Uralvagonzavod Concern (the state corporation Rostec) has announced that it has sent a batch of new T-90M tanks to the Russian army.
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| T-90M photo of the ZVO press service |
“On the eve of the Day of the tanker,
Uralvagonzavod employees sent another echelon of special equipment to the
Russian Ministry of Defense. These are the latest T-90M Proryv tanks and
BREM-1M engineering vehicles,” the press service of the concern said.
The T-90M is the latest modification of
the Russian T-90 main battle tank.
In an article published on Friday in the
departmental newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, the head of the main armored department
of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Alexander
Shestakov, said that additional protection kits for infantry fighting vehicles
(IFVs) and armored personnel carriers (APCs) were sent to the zone of the
special military operation in Ukraine.
"Additional protection kits for the
BMP-3, BMP-2, BTR-82A, BTR-80 have been created and the supply of these kits to
the troops, primarily to the areas of the special military operation, has been
ensured," Shestakov said.
He stated that the tank and motorized
rifle units and formations taking part in the special operation in Ukraine are
provided with modern models of armored weapons and equipment.
"The T-90M, T-80BVM, T-72B3M tanks
currently produced by the industry, infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3, BMP-2M,
airborne combat vehicles BMD-4M are not inferior to foreign counterparts in
terms of basic performance characteristics, and in some surpass them,"
Shestakov said.
"As part of the execution of the state defense order, in the period 2022-2024, enterprises of the military-industrial complex will hand over to the Russian Ministry of Defense modern and modernized models of armored vehicles that have successfully proven themselves in a special military operation," the representative of the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Defense of the
southern borders of Russia will be strengthened with the latest T-90M
"Proryv" tanks
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