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According to Russian media reports, Russian Army will start receiving, 20 units of beta versions of a future main battle tanks which will usher in the 5th generation MBT for next-generation warfare.
While characteristics and appearance of the platform remain classified, but there is no doubt in minds of many Russian defence experts that as soon as Production line is streamed line Russia will offer an export variant to countries which operate Soviet era Main battle tanks like T-72/T-80/T-90 .
Many Russian experts are calling Armata tank a revolutionary tank due to the adaption of new battle vehicle design and use of new construction methods. Armata will sport new 125 mm 2A82-1M smoothbore cannon which overshadow the performance of German Leopard-2 Rheinmetall 120 mm gun until now was dubbed as best tank smoothbore cannon. New 125 mm gun has 15-20 percent improved accuracy over the T-90 main gun and its rolling fire angular dispersion has improved 1.7 times. Reports also say that Tank is fully Computerised and in the future fully robotic battle vehicle will be developed in future.
Love for Russian battle tanks in Indian Army is legendary and it won’t be a surprise if Russia will start lobbying for Export variant of Armata tank to India While locally developed Arjun MK-2 MBT is yet to enter into production due to Stiff requirements of Indian Army and India’s future main battle tank (FMBT) is still not taken off due to Indian Armies inability to make up its mind and issue General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQRs) for the new tank .
Will Indian Army resist temptation for the new Russian tank? and will the development of FMBT also suffer due to indifference Army will adapt to Imported battle tanks like it did for Arjun and heavily favored Russian T-90 over the Indigenous battle tank? only time will tell.
