Tank ghost starve financial starvation
Presumably because the future looks like a tank T-95
The designers say: the Ministry of Defense decision to close the project "Object 195" was premature. The new tank will be in demand by customers
Strange stories were happening with the Russian "tank of the future": about it long rumored as superzasekrechennom "object 195. Army wags nicknamed this machine "ghost" - supposedly, all about her talk, but no one has ever seen. And while some media (including the "KP") have repeatedly appeared scheme mysterious items, and received a second formal name - the T-95, some representatives of the Defense Ministry flatly refused his existence, and even reproached journalists for the "fairy tale". Apparently, so tried to cover up the secret, and from foreign intelligence services.
Secret is out in April this year: while in heavy, like armor, cloak of secrecy Urals tank-builders for the first time showed overgrown with legends of the car is very narrow circle of ministers and generals. Publish your impressions of strictly forbidden. And now - another one that has broader premiere:
in Nizhny Tagil in the exhibition "Defence Expo 2010" held another private screening prospective main battle tank - the same T-95, the same "object 195". This was officially announced the deputy director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Konstantin Biryulin.
According to him, a list of persons granted access to confidential screening of new technology, was determined Rosoboronexport (the organization that is engaged in exports and imports).
What was known about the Russian armored miracle Judaic?
Development of T-95 does the company Uralvagonzavod. T-95 differs from that currently adopted T-90 lower silhouette, remote-controlled turret and location of the crew in a special armored capsule.
Designers machine boast: thanks to the fact that "living compartment" separated from the tank's turret gun and automatic loader and special armor, could improve the safety of the crew. In addition, the machine became a "squat" (as it were, sprawled on the ground), which reduces its visibility on the battlefield - it can disguise even in low bushes.
For the most confidence for our readers to report:
the weight of the new tank - about 55 tons. It can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometers per hour. Armament: 152-millimeter gun, anti-aircraft missiles and machine guns - caliber 7,62 and 14,5 mm. It is possible that armor T-95 would be combined with the use of armor - CLE (at our other tanks, it was a "bill"). It is said that the new machine should appear and a new system to fight with shells and "smart" missiles, bombs, the enemy, which rises above target. Above this and fight our design engineers. Moreover, for free.
Even three months ago the first deputy defense minister of Russia Vladimir Popovkin said that the War Department stopped funding the development of T-95 and close it. Not so long ago the Minister of Industry and Science, Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Petrov said that URALVAGONZAVOD "soon finalize a T-95," to conduct themselves.
According to Petrov, the Defense Ministry decision to close the project "Object 195" was premature and the new tank will be in demand by customers.
The question arises: if the project wipe out, then why hold private screenings? The fact is that the Urals are extremely interested to bring begun before the end (the more so that the product they vbuhali quite a few of their millions - from the factory treasury). And now try to prove the ministers and generals, that the machine would be one of the best in the world. And then, as luck would have suddenly vanished from the Ministry of Defense "appetite" for tanks: some generals have to say that the tank - it is weapons of yesterday. While many of the most powerful army the world, do not reject it, but on the contrary, improve and create new designs. What would have happened strategic mistakes ...
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