Tank “Armata” – not such a novelty.
Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov made fun of the makers of Russian tank “Armata”, which touted their offspring for the unique and supersovremennom.
“The world is a huge joint stock company, where the evaluation of the character is the size of his contribution to civilization and to the overall development. And we have all even found that the same “Armata” deflated American tank with 80-ies, because it is the principle residential tower is one of the developments of the American “Abrams”, – the journalist noted in an interview to “echo of Moscow”.
“Just (the Americans) were not to put (the tank) weapons, because then the Soviet Union collapsed, and this required many billions, so they did not like to introduce a new battle tank, although here, so to speak, the Pro-Armata, it was intended as a means to defeat Soviet tanks and as a response to the Soviet military threat,” he explained.
As you know, the American military Museum National Armor and Cavalry put in their exhibition experienced tank Abrams Tank Test Bed. Experts who have studied the exhibit, noted that the concept of military armored vehicles with unmanned turret, the uniqueness of which boast of the engineers of the Russian “Uralvagonzavod” was coined 30 years ago.
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