Its main armament is a 120mm smoothbore gun derived from the XM360 120mm cannon of the canceled Future Combat Systems (FCS) vehicle.

The tank sports a highly-revised turret with multiple electro-optical sights and a remote weapon station with a 30mm chain gun. The Warzone reported that General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) revealed its anticipated AbramsX MBT prototype, which marks a deep modernization of the long-serving M1 Abrams tank that has been in service since the 1980s. The 125-millimeter 2A82-1M main gun can penetrate modern NATO tank armor and could be upgraded in the future to a larger caliber weapon.The US has unveiled its new AbramsX Main Battle Tank (MBT) and Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) light tank, both purposely designed for expeditionary operations vis-a-vis China in Asia and Russia in Europe. Armata’s Afghanit hard kill defense system is also reportedly useful against high velocity anti-tank rounds.

Unlike previous tanks, Armata’s three man crew sits in the hull and the turret is unmanned. The tank is larger than existing Russian tanks and features both active and passive systems to defend against anti-tank missiles. Russia will even reportedly refurbish 1980s-era T-80 tanks to the upgraded T-80BV standard for use in Arctic regions, where their gas turbine engines will function better in the winter cold.Īrmata is the first truly modern tank design to come from Russia from decades. T-72 tanks are being upgraded to the new T-72B3 standard, and the Russian Army will lean heavily on existing inventories of newer, T-90A/M tanks.

Instead of a vast fleet of new tanks, Russia is upgrading new ones.

Older T-90A tanks in Russian Ground Forces service.

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