In recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally praised the T-90M Proryv-3 main battle tank (MBT), describing it as the best armored vehicle in service today. A recent batch has been delivered to the Russian military, and on the eve of its planned Victory Day celebrations, a Rostec official offered even more hyperbole about the T-90 and other Russian MBTs.

“The Russian T-90M, T-72 B3 M, and T-80 BVM vehicles best suit present-day combat conditions. They can be considered the world’s best serial-produced tanks in terms of their aggregate characteristics. This is the result of the well-coordinated work by the large staff of Rostec enterprises: developers and designers, engineers and technologists, workers of industrial facilities and repair groups,” Vladimir Artyakov, first deputy CEO at the Russian military industrial conglomerate, said in a statement to TASS on Tuesday.

The Rostec chief said the company employs a “flexible system of armor production,” but only offered a few details.

“It has made it possible to ramp up the output of complex vehicles many times over, on the one hand, and ensure prompt alterations in equipment, if required by real conditions, on the other hand,” Artyakov added. 

“This adaptive system does not exist anywhere else in the world.” 

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