Русия: Armata T-14 боен танк за първи път на парада по случай деня на Победата

The all-new Armata T-14 main battle tank was fully unveiled to the public, Saturday, as it rolled through Moscow as part of the 2015 Victory Day parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the 'Great Patriotic War'. The T-14 Armata main battle tank is Russia's most advanced battle tank and argued to be the deadliest armoured fighting vehicle in the world. It has several unique features, which manifest its superiority against other battle tanks currently in service, including an unmanned remotely-controlled turret; fully automated ammunition loading and computerized targeting systems, and a cutting-edge radar system able to simultaneously track up to 40 ground and 25 air targets within a 96 km (59 mile-) radius. The T-14 is said to be armed with a 30mm sub-calibre ranging gun, 12.5mm heavy machine gun with turret, and a remote-controlled 125mm 2A82-1M smoothbore cannon, which boasts a greater muzzle energy than the German Leopard-2 Rheinmetall 120 mm. The cannon can fire a range of munitions, including guided missiles, shaped-charges and armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS). Following trials in 2016, over 2,300 Armata T-14s are expected to be delivered to Russia's armed forces by 2020, replacing the older T-72s and T-90s. Other new items of the Russian Defence industry presented at the parade were the Armata T-15 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), sharing the same chassis and armour as the Armata T-14; the Kurganets-25 APC and IFV; the 2S35-SV Koalitsiya self-propelled howitzer; the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system and the BTR-MD Rakushka APC.