During the official presentation of the new generation T14 Armata main battle tank on May 9, 2015 on the occasion of the military parade for the celebration of 70 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War against Nazism, the Russian authorities had announced that the national forces would line up 2000 "modern" tanks by 2020. In a small game of the Arabic telephone, the approximate translations in addition, this information was interpreted in the West as the ambition to line up 2000 of these new generation tanks at the end of the decade, which nevertheless seemed irrelevant given the current programming law which ended in 2018. The Russian military authorities were in fact referring to modernized versions of its T72B3 and T80BV tanks, respectively the T72B3M and the T80BVM, and indeed, by the end of 2020, the number of these modernized armored vehicles in service in Russian units will be close to 2000.
The announcement made this week by the Russian Defense Ministry concerns, this time, the T14 Armata, as well as the modernized version of the T90, the T90M. According to the Russian authorities, and in accordance with the GPV 2019-2027, the Russian forces will line up, in 2027, 900 "truly modern" tanks, namely 500 T14 and 400 T90M, therefore reinforcing the 2000+ T72 and T80 already modernized. in service, or to be delivered shortly. This announcement appears to be consistent with the planned budgetary resources, the available human resources and the needs of the Russian armed forces.
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[…] the planning announced by Moscow, the Russian Armies should align, by 2027, 500 T-14 Armata which will evolve alongside 400 T-90M and more than 2000 modernized T72B3M and T80BVM, within the units of active Russians. If so […]