In connection with the presentation of numerous new armored combat vehicles at the Victory Parade in Moscow in May 2015, Russian government circles loudly announced that over a thousand of these new armored vehicles would be produced by 2020. Numerous Western tank experts strongly doubted these statements even back then.
Today - four years later - it must be recognized that Western tank experts have assessed Russian capabilities and capacities (financial and industrial) more accurately than Russian statements. Instead of mass production of the new and highly complex combat vehicles, it was decided in recent years to subject the main battle tanks (T-72; T-80 and T-90) introduced to a comprehensive - but overall more cost-effective - modernization. In this article, these combat value enhancement programs will be presented in more detail.
General
A large proportion of the Russian Armed Forces' MBTs that are still in use today were introduced in the 1970s and are in use today (in purely mathematical terms, around 45 years). Even though all models have been modernized several times in some areas, the older vehicles in particular (T-72; T-80) no longer meet the current performance standard. Since, for various reasons, this generation of vehicles will not be (completely) replaced by a new vehicle fleet in the foreseeable future, a comprehensive and comprehensive combat performance improvement program has now been correctly decided for all MBTs in use. This means that these vehicles should be able to remain in use for up to another 15 years.
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