Questions remain over fate of Armata
The clock is ticking for the Armata programme to hit its delivery target.
Recent remarks from Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov have done little to draw a line under uncertainty surrounding the future of the Russian T-14 Armata MBT (pictured on display during the Army 2020 exhibition).
Serial production of Armata ‘will start in 2021’, Chemezov announced in a 7 December press briefing.
Referring to the unmanned version of the T-14, he added: ‘It is planned to use it as a testbed to develop technology for other unmanned ground systems.’
It is known that the Russian MoD signed an order in 2018 for 132 T-14 MBTs and T-15 heavy IFVs on the modular Armata
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