Unlike other countries, Russia refused to create a new tank; On April 7, 2010, Deputy Defense Minister - Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Popovkin announced the termination of funding for the development of the T-95 tank and the closure of the project. No country in the world has yet abandoned tanks. America, Israel, Germany, France, continue to develop and improve them. Tanks are in service with many countries and are considered a pretty strong argument in a serious dispute between countries.
If you think that tank battles are not expected in the foreseeable future and therefore tanks have outlived their age and they have no prospects, then, yes, a lot of things can be written off as scrap metal. The Ministry of Defense closed the topic of the promising T-95 tank and will not order a tank support combat vehicle (BMPT), and our main T-90 tanks will be purchased in limited quantities.
In general, Russia is increasingly beginning to buy weapons abroad. It is unpleasant to hear that we cannot create drones, that we are purchasing helicopter carriers, now the turn will come for tanks. I just want to ask, can we create anything besides waste? We have forks and spoons from China! Can't smelt a spoon?
After all, everyone understands that the equipment supplied to another, foreign country is not entirely full-fledged, it is limited in a number of parameters so that it does not happen that this modern weapon will be directed against the country that produces and sells it. The weapons developer has the same tank faster, stronger and smarter.
How are we going to fight and repel aggression in the event of an attack if we begin to abandon our developments? Are there any more promising developments? Maybe fighting robots? Apparently, you will have to fight against enemy tanks with sapper blades. It has long been known that the most terrible troops in Russia are the construction battalion, they are not even given weapons.
Of course, it can be assumed that hardly anyone will attack a nuclear power, nuclear weapons are weapons of deterrence, but, unfortunately, not protection. You won't throw nuclear bombs in your native Russian fields, and you won't start bombarding enemy forces with nuclear missiles. Then how to reflect aggression if there is no armored vehicle?
I remember there were military exercises in Estonia. But they do not have their own tanks, and in order to get out of the predicament, they borrowed a T-55 tank from Latvia to conduct "serious" military exercises. Even there they realize that tanks are important and necessary.
In Estonia, the question of the possible equipping of the army with tanks and other heavy equipment has been discussed for a long time. However, the country's military leadership rejected initiatives of this kind, although Poland offered several T-55 tanks free of charge, which did not meet NATO standards.
But let's go back. We give up what cannot be denied. If we do not have our own military equipment, then we will have to buy it abroad, pay money to other countries, other scientists, engineers and workers. to raise the economy of foreign countries by their orders. And this technique will not be completely advanced and perfect.
Let them lag behind, let the difficulties, but admit that you cannot lose. To retreat is to be defeated!
At all times, Russian science is at its best. We invented the best medium tank in the world, our tank, our T-34. Due to its combat qualities, the T-34 was recognized by a number of specialists as the best medium tank of the Second World War. We do not need millions of tanks, let there be 2000, but it will be modern, powerful, representing a serious force with a strong argument of reliability, armor, weapons, intelligence.
