The technical reports will include the inspection of the tank’s active protection system called Afghanit, which can intercept missiles at short range. “It is a question understanding the tank and its defensive mechanisms that will help us to overcome them.” “It is in a lab being disassembled with tech reports sent back to the US and the UK for exploitation,” said a security source. The National understands that the prize tank has been taken to an undisclosed location in western Ukraine or Poland where technicians have been able to minutely inspect its systems.

Specialist teams will likely now be able to unlock the tank's sophisticated defence systems that include Nakidka stealth material that absorbs heat and radio signals, potentially cloaking it from Nato surveillance aircraft while offering protection from precision-guided missiles.Ī Russian T-90M destroyed by Ukrainian armed forces is seen near the village of Staryi Saltiv in the Kharkiv region in May. It was found in near perfect condition with only one track missing. Western scientists have been able to scrutinise the T-90M, including its specialist armour and targeting systems, after it was abandoned by fleeing Russian troops late last month following Ukraine's lightning offensive in the Kharkiv region. The T-90M follows the T-90MS Proryv-2 (Breakthrough 2), an upgrade of the export-centered T-90S variant, which was revealed in 2011.Intelligence officials have been able to discover key weaknesses and examine secret systems on Russia’s most advanced operational tank captured by Ukraine. So, the Uralvagonzavod-designed T-90M serves as an important update to the T-90 line of tanks, first introduced in the early 1990s as a direct outgrowth of the T-72.

This is mainly due to the financial realities of producing a brand new tank and the development it takes to make it actually work as promised. The much-hyped, but still not proven, T-14 Armata main battle tanks, aren't yet ready for frontline combat and are in very short supply.

Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division of the 1st Guards Tank Army in the spring of 2020, with recent estimates suggesting that only 100 or so models are currently in service in total. The initial batch of production T-90M tanks were only issued to the 2nd Guards M. News of what appears to be the first T-90M tank destroyed in Ukraine should lift the spirits of the Ukrainian forces, given its status as the most technologically advanced and capable tank within Russia’s frontline military arsenal.

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