![]() ![]() UVZ was already an entity in trouble before the invasion of Ukraine. The pre-war deliveries from the August 2017 and follow-on 2018 contract are summarised below: Table collated by Sergio Miller (author) The effect of sanctions The T-90Ms were fitted with ‘thermal imaging sighting systems of domestic production’ (replacing the French Safran Matis STD and Thales Catherine FC thermal cameras with the indigenous Agat-MDT and Irbis-K thermal cameras). 1 UVZ Chief Engineer, Pavel Slobodyanik, described this batch as a mix of ‘completely new machines and T-90A, upgraded to the level of T-90M.’ The 2017 contract, in fact, provided for just 30 tanks and only ten were new-builds. Deliveries only started in 2020, following contract signing in August 2017. The stalled T-14 Armata tank programme aside, T-90M Proryv-3 is the most expensive Russian tank costing 118 million roubles at pre-war exchange rates (approximately $1.6 million). The tank has been draped in Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating covers Source: Military Review T-90M Proryv-3 (‘Breakthrough-3’) – pre-war deliveries ![]() This article examines T-90M and the threat it poses. The former tank is well-known in Western reporting, the newer T-90M less so. Just two tank types, T-72B3 and T-90M, are now being produced in three daily shifts and with convict labour. Catastrophic tank losses – over 1,600 of all types – and limited assembly line capacity at Russia’s main tank manufacturer, the Nizhny Tagil-based Uralvagonzavod (UVZ), have forced radical measures. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February the T-90M was the best but also rarest tank in the Russian operational fleet. ![]()
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