
Sharing only with previous MBTs its low profile silhouette, this tank, years in the making is probably one of the most daring project and possibly a forerunner of 5th generation Main Battle Tanks. A quarter of a century after, at the occasion of a memorable may parade on the Kremlin red square, the Armata was unveiled.

It would be years after the political turmoil following the collapse of the Soviet Union before Russia could emerge as a potent military power, with the inheritance of a massive Soviet army counting many obsolete models, no wages, no ammunition or even gasoline to operate properly.


Modern Ground Forces of the Russian Federation (post-1990) Vehicles
