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The Uralvagonzavod company has delivered another batch of advanced T-90M Proryv-3 main battle tanks to the Russian military.
Photos posted to Uralvagonzavod official Telegram channel on March 12 indicate that at least a dozen tanks were shipped out from the company’s factories in the city of Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk region.
The T-90M, which was first presented in 2017, is a heavily upgraded version of the T-90. The tank features a modernized “all welded” turret with the new advanced fire control system Kalina and the new Irbis-K gunner’s sight. The turret is also equipped with four video cameras that provide a 360° view of the environment for the commander.
The tank is armed with an upgraded 2A46M-5 125 mm smoothbore gun capable of firing laser-guided Refleks anti-tank missiles as well as a coaxial PKMT 7,62 mm machine gun and the UDP T05BV-1 remote weapon station with a Kord 12,7 mm machine gun.
It is also equipped with an upgraded AZ-185M2 autoloader which can be loaded with the larger and more effective armor-piercing rounds Svinets-1 and Svinets-2.
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For enhanced protection, the sides and rear of the T-90M hull and turret are completely covered with Relikt new generation explosive reactive armor blocks.
Relikt uses a completely new composition of explosives to achieve dynamic protection. Unlike older reactive amours, it works equally reliably against both low-velocity and high-velocity missiles, doubling protection against shaped charges and increasing anti-tank guided missile protection by 50%.
The tank is powered by a new 1130 hp V-92S2F engine coupled with automatic transmission. It is also equipped with an enhanced environmental control system and GLONASS satellite navigation systems.
The T-90M has already proved its worth during the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. The tank performance was generally better than comparable Western tanks in service with the Kiev forces, like the American-made Arbrams, the German-made Leopard 2 and the British-made Challenger 2.
It is unknown how many T-90Ms are currently in service with the Russian military. However, the number is believed to be in the hundreds.
Deliveries and orders of the advanced tank continued over the past two years even despite Western economic sanctions due to the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
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