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While Western nations are working to upgrade Ukraine’s ground game with US M-1 Abrams and German Leopard 2 tanks, Russia has now introduced its latest-generation tank into the war in Ukraine.
The new Russian tank is the T-14 Armata, which features an unmanned turret, with a three-man crew operating the vehicle has an “isolated armored capsule located at the front of the hull.” The tank has a maximum highway speed of 50 miles per hour.
It’s equipped with a 125mm smoothbore main gun with a range of 8 kilometers. The gun is fed by an automated loader with a 45-round capacity, and can also fire laser-guided missiles.
On defense, it has both reactive armor that explodes outward upon a projectile’s impact, and an “active protection system” (APS), “essentially an anti-missile system for tanks, with radars capable of tracking the incoming anti-tank missile, and projectiles that are launched to disrupt or destroy it.”
The tank has technology to hide it from radar- and heat-seeking targeting systems: “We essentially made the tank invisible.” The deployed T-14s have received “additional side protection from anti-tank ammunition.”
Until now, T-14 appearances have been largely limited to a series of Moscow Victory Day parades stretching all the way back to 2015, and they have been “tested in Syria.”
