Designation:

T-90S

Info
Manufacturer: JSC Research and production corporation UralVagonZavod  
Product type: Armoured Vehicles  
Name: Main battle tank  

T-90C has been developed on the basis of thorough investigation and interpretation of tactics and strategy of using tanks in specific present-day combat conditions, considering long army service experience of the T-72 tanks in many countries of the world and taking into account the results of the perennial arduous field tests.

T-90C has low combat weight, minor overall size, powerful armament and high mobility, common to all Russian tanks.

The main armament of the T-90C tank is a 125-mm smoothbore gun of improved accuracy with built-in boresighting device, quick-detachable barrel and independent two-plane stabilization. The gun is loaded by an automatic loader holding first 22 rounds.

The use of the automatic loader has provided high rate of fire (up to 7 rounds per minute). The tank gun possibilities to hit ground armoured targets and aerial low flying targets have been improved considerably thanks to usage of guided weapon system. Laser-controlled hollow-charge missile is loaded into the barrel bore by the automatic loader and fired from the gun barrel.

The gun uses the following types of ammunition: APDS, HEAT, HEF rounds with separate loading/and rounds with guided missiles. Additional armament consists of the coaxial machine gun, caliber .30, and remotely-controlled antiaircraft

machine gun, caliber .50. High level of protection is achieved by usage of welded hull and turret equipped with universal explosive reactive armour and optoelectronic suppression system. Tank T-90C can perform the following:

  • cross streams up to 5 m deep under water without stopping to perform its combat mission upon crossing

  • ford 48-inch deep water barrier

  • span a 110-inch trench

  • clear a 32-inch vertical obstacle

  • climb a 30-dg slope

The tank has entrenching equipment, arrangement for mounting mine sweepers. The tank can be carried by all transport means.

The T-90C tank is made by the configuration traditional for the Russian tank building with main armament fitted in rotary turret, power plant and power train in the rear of the hull, the commander and the gunner sitting in the fighting compartment, and the driver in the driving compartment. Though new units and systems, which improve T-90C combat and operational characteristics, have been incorporated, the tank overall dimensions remain as those of the T-72C tank. Only it has become heavier by 2 tons, but the tank is still lighter by 9 t than Leclerc by 16 t than M1A2 Abrams and Leopard-2A6. Achievement of higher combat properties of the T-90C tank resulted in its design complication. This, seemingly, in its turn should lead to additional difficulties in maintenance, increase of the time to prepare the tank for the battle and use of additional tooling for that. However, thanks to a number of original design approaches, this is not the fact.

The T-90C tank has the following features:

  • the optimum fitness for combat by day and at night

  • remarkable reliability of all components and units, machinery and systems

  • excellent mobility and maneuverability on all types of terrain and under any climatic conditions including high mountains and dust-laden areas

  • low cost of crew training

The Russian battle tank T-90C has embodied advanced scientific and technical ideas in its construction. Therefore it yields to none of the best foreign tanks of the third generation both in its combat and technical characteristics and in its possibility to fight in specific present-day combat conditions. And even there is a number of parameters that make the T-90C tank superior over the other tanks.

Specifications:
Property Value
Crew
3
Weight (kg)
46500
Length (mm)
9530
Width (mm)
3780
Height (mm)
2226
Max. road speed (km/h)
60
Max. road range (km)
550
Cross-country cruising range (km)
450
Depth of fording, without preparation (mm)
1800
Fording depth (mm)
5000
Gradient (%)
60
Side slope (%)
40
Vertical obstacle (mm)
850
Trench (mm)
2800
Engine power output (h.p.)
1000
Number of forward gears
7
Number of reverse gears
1
Main weapon caliber (mm)
125
AA gun caliber (mm)
12.7
Auxiliary gun calibre (mm)
7.62
Ammunition in the autoloader
22
Ammunition of the main gun
43
Ammunition of AA gun
300
Ammunition of the auxiliary gun
2000
Elevation (degree)
14
Depression (degree)
-6
Planes of gun stabilization
2


Has folowing part:
Total Amount
1A43 (Fire control system)
1
1G46 (Gunner's sight)
1
2A46M-4 (Gun)
1
2E42-4 (Stabilizer)
1
9Ê119 Reflecks (Missile)
1
? (Air conditioner)
1
? (Fire fighting equipment)
1
? (NBC system)
1
ESSA (Thermal imaging sight)
1
NSVT (Anti-aircraft machine gun)
1
R-163-50K (Radio station)
1
R-163-UP (Radio receiver)
1
R-174 (Intercom)
1
Shtora-1 (Optronic countermeasure system)
1
T01-K04 (Commander's sighting system)
1
TKN-4S (Commander's sighting system)
1
TVK-2 (Driver's vision device)
1
TVN-5 (Driver's night vision device)
1
V-92S2 (Diesel engine)
1

T-90S quantities:
Country Qnt
ALGERIA ALGERIA
300
AZERBAIJAN AZERBAIJAN
100
INDIA INDIA
1000
IRAQ IRAQ
46
SYRIA SYRIA
20
TURKMENISTAN TURKMENISTAN
10
UGANDA UGANDA
100
Qnt:
1576

Last Contracts:
Qnt Customer Value Add Date
(Close Date)
Unit cost
464
INDIA
$2.800.000.000
Nov 2019
(Dec 2023)
$6,034,483
64
VIETNAM
 
Dec 2016
(Dec 2021)
 
73
IRAQ
 
Dec 2016
(Dec 2022)
 
100
UGANDA
$340.000.000
Feb 2010
(Dec 2012)
$3,400,000
1000
INDIA
$2.500.000.000
Jun 2008
(Nov 2019)
$2,500,000
10
TURKMENISTAN
$26.000.000
Feb 2008
(Dec 2009)
$2,600,000
347
INDIA
$1.237.000.000
Feb 2007
(Oct 2011)
$3,564,841
300
ALGERIA
$1.000.000.000
Mar 2006
(Dec 2011)
$3,333,333
310
INDIA
$900.000.000
Jun 2001
(Dec 2007)
$2,903,226
Average Unit Cost:
$3,478,072

All contracts...


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