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Russian main battle tank t-14 armata12/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The first vehicles were shown to the public in the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, with a batch of 32 to be delivered to the Russian Land Forces during the same year. In November 2014 trials of the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV self-propelled gun variant were under way. ![]() Prototypes of heavy armored vehicles based on the Armata combat platform were presented at the defense exhibition Russian Arms Expo in Nizhny Tagil in September 2013. The Armata combat platform has been under design and development since 2009 by Uralvagonzavod headquartered in Nizhny Tagil. This was wrongly transcribed as "Armada" by journalists on several occasions. The name "Armata" derives from the plural of the Latin word arma which refers to weapons of war, and was an old Russian word for 14th century guns it is also the plural of the ancient Greek word "Arma", meaning "chariot" or in modern Greek, "tank". The combat platform is formally designated as "prospective family of heavy unified battlefield platforms". The new "Armata" tank platform is meant to replace the older Russian main battle tanks and APCs that are currently used by the Russian military. It is also intended to serve as the basis for artillery, air defense, and NBC defense systems. The Armata platform is the basis of the T-14 (a main battle tank), the T-15 (a heavy infantry fighting vehicle), a combat engineering vehicle, an armoured recovery vehicle, a heavy armoured personnel carrier, a tank support combat vehicle, and several types of self-propelled artillery, including the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV under the same codename based on the same chassis. The "Armata" Universal Combat Platform ( Russian: Армата) is a Russian advanced next generation modular heavy military tracked vehicle platform. ![]()
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