T-90 Tank



The T-90 is the most modern tank in service in the Sandilian Army.

Armament
The main gun (smoothbore cannon) has 43 rounds. and its seconadary armament (machine gun) has 4000 rounds.

Develpoment
T-90 tank was a further development of the T-72 and the project was kept in high secrecy. The tank first photos was seen three years after its launch in the Sandil Land Forces. The T-90 MBT uses a well proven chassis of the T-72 and turret with all weapon systems of the T-80U.

   It has a welded composite armor hull with a built-in Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor blocks. It's protection is enhanced by Shtora-1 countermeasures system, which significantly reduces the chance of being hit by enemy ATGW with semi-automatic guidance.

   The T-90 main battle tank is a armed with a fully-stabilized 2A46M 125-mm smoothbore gun. This gun is also used to launch 9K119 Refleks  anti-tank guided missies, in the same manner, as ordinary munitions. The AT-11 missile has a range of 4 -5 km and can also engage low-flying helicopters. Main gun of the T-90 is completed with a carousel-type autoloader. 22 rounds are carried in the autoloader. However it's spare ammunition is stored in the main compartment, rather than a separate compartment with a blow-out panels. This drawback was common to all Cold War era Soviet main battle tanks. Effective range of fire with APFSDS round is 2 000 - 3 000 m day and 2 000 - 2 600 at night. Armor penetration is about 590 - 630 mm at 2 000 m range.

   Secondary armament consists of a coaxial 7.62-mm machine gun and a roof mounted remotely-controlled 12.7-mm machine gun, used against both ground and air targets.

   This tank has a crew of three, including commander, gunner and driver.

   The T-90 is powered by a V-84MS multi-fuel diesel engine, developing 840 horsepower. Vehicle is completed with an auxiliary power unit, which powers all tank's systems, when the main engine is turned off. It is worth mentioning that the original T-90 has a lower power-to-weight ration than most current MBTs, hence it's vague mobility performance. Vehicle is fitted with a deep wading kit, that can be installed by tank's crew within 20 minutes. The T-90 is also fitted with a self-entrenching blade.

