The T-90 is a third-generation Russian main battle tank developed from the earlier T-72 and built by Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, entering Russian service in 1992. It is armed with a 125 millimeter smoothbore main gun and protected by Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor together with the Shtora infrared countermeasure system, which is designed to disrupt the guidance of incoming anti-tank missiles. The tank has seen extended combat service, including deployment to Syria from 2017 onward in support of Russian operations there, and it has been used extensively, including its upgraded T-90M variant, by Russian forces throughout the Russo-Ukrainian War beginning in 2022. As the most modern tank in large-scale production for the Russian army through the early twenty-first century, the T-90 has also been exported to and licensed for production by several other countries, most notably India.
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How did the T-90 come out of the T-72 and the T-80?
It is a modernized T-72 combined with the T-80 fire control system, first prototyped as the T-88.
After the Soviet collapse in 1991, Russian authorities debated whether to keep producing two similar but different main battle tanks, the T-72 and the T-80. They chose to develop a modernized form of the T-72 that took key qualities from the T-80, mating the T-80 fire control system to the T-72 frame and keeping the autoloader and the 125 millimeter smoothbore gun. The prototype carried the designation T-88, and with a diesel engine it was adopted as the T-90, essentially an evolution of the T-72 line.
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Russia has fielded the T-90 main battle tank in the Russo-Ukrainian War
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WikipediaLead section, opening sentence
The T-90 is a third-generation Russian main battle tank developed from, and designed to replace the T-72.
Lead section, paragraph 2, second sentence
It entered service with the Russian army in 1992.
service status
Russia later used the tank from 2017 in its intervention in the Syrian civil war
caliber
It uses a 125 mm 2A46 smoothbore main gun, the 1A45T fire-control system, an upgraded engine, and gunner's thermal sight
Infobox: primary_armament
2A46M 125 mm smoothbore gun with 43 rounds (T-90) 2A46M-2 125 mm smoothbore gun with 42 rounds (T-90A) 2A46M-5 125 mm smoothbore gun with 43 rounds (T-90M)
Infobox: service
From 1992 (T-90), From 2004 (T-90A), From 2019 (T-90M)
- Used In: Syrian Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Syrian Civil War'
- Used In: Russo-Ukrainian War, infobox wars field: 'Russo-Ukrainian War'
Operated By: Russian Ground Forces, Lead
The tank allegedly first saw combat in the 1999 war in Dagestan, with Russian Ground Forces.
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