The new main battle tank based on the T-14 Armata platform reportedly has an unmanned turret armed with a new 125mm smoothbore gun with fully automatic loading a separate crew compartment and composite armor.
In less than a month, Moscow is set to hold a massive military parade in honor of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. For a variety of reasons, the parade is shaping up to be the grandest in recent memory, and certainly the greatest in Russia's post-Soviet history. A great deal of diplomatic, military and historical street cred is certainly riding on the event.
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Russia; Armata tank's first images
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