Former commander of a tank battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "Armata" is a tank with zero prospects
The Ukrainian press published an interview with the ex-commander of a tank battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a former Ukrainian military instructor (who worked abroad), Nikolai Salamha. He was called “one of the main Ukrainian experts in tank sphere ".
The main topic of the interview was devoted to “how Ukraine will resist Russian tanks”. Among other things, there was a conversation about how Ukrainian tankers to resist the Russian "Armata".
Question from Ukrainian reporters:
It is noted that over the past few years, Russia has sent significant funds to the modernization of tanks, considering armored units as the strike basis of the ground forces. It is pointed out that in addition to the development of the latest T-14 Armata tank, Russia is also betting on the modernization of Soviet developments in tank building.
Nicholas Salamakha, who was called an "expert", announced that "Russia does not have fundamental science, only Soviet fragments remained of applied science."
Ukrainian "expert":
Criticizing the T-14, which Salamakha, as they say, did not see in his eyes, he said that “Belarus was involved in the creation of these tanks in order to gain access to French technologies”.
Salamaha:
It is the French technology of the fire control system, as this person believes, “Russia wanted to get through Belarus”.
According to the ex-battalion commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in such conditions, Russia had to simultaneously focus on modernizing the T-72 tanks.
Salamaha:
To "confront" Russian tanks, according to this "expert", Ukraine must in a short time increase the accuracy of firing and target detection range on its tanks, then equip the T-64B, T-72AV and T-80B with a panoramic sight with a magnification of 12. But about the prospects for updating the Ukrainian tank arsenal, how different they are from zero, Mr. Salamakha did not say ...
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