The reasons for its cancellation have not been made public as of 2018.

The head of the Federal Service for Defence Contracts, Sergei Mayev, said the T-90 would remain the 'backbone' of Russian armor until 2025, and that T-72s and T-80s would not be modernized, but instead be phased out by 'new-generation tanks' entering service after 2010. In July 2008, the Russian government announced that the Russian armed forces would start receiving new-generation tanks superior to the T-90 after 2010. The prototype tank was announced by the Russian Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev in 2000. Work on Object 195 was curtailed by lack of funding until 2000–2001. T-95 was a name given to the tank by media it was not an official name. The project was first reported in 1995 It was due to be introduced in 2009, but was repeatedly delayed. The chassis derives from Object 187, but is longer.

Requirements were developed from the Sovershenstvovanie-88 (Improvement-88) study. The work from Object 195 was used in Object 148, later type-classified as the T-14 Armata, which should have began production in 2016.Īround 1988, Nizhni Tagil was ordered to work on a new main battle tank. Equipped with a new engine, dual-reactive armor, lower radar cross section, and the Afghanit active defense system, NATO tank forces viewed the Armata as a formidable new threat.T-95 is the common informal designation of the Russian fourth-generation main battle tank internally designated as the Object 195, that was under development at Uralvagonzavod from 1988 until its cancelation in 2010. Moscow promised to build 2,300 Armata tanks by 2020, enough for about eight tank and motor rifle (mechanized) divisions. In June 2015, the Russian government unveiled the Armata, which was designed to replace older T-72B3 and T-80 tanks in the arsenals of the Russian Ground Forces. Production problems with the Armata, however, could allow the “Burlak” tank to take its place.

The tank would be cheaper and easier to produce, while still being a formidable adversary to NATO forces.Ī “new” tank concept has surfaced in Russia, about 10 years after the country abandoned it in favor of the sleeker, newer-looking T-14 Armata tank.

The Burlak builds on past Russian tank technology to produce a tank that has many of the same advantages as the Armata.

Russia’s difficulty building new T-14 Armata tanks could provide another tank concept, the Burlak, with the opportunity to take its place.

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