(For the purposes of this comparison, the T-90A in frontline Russian service will be compared, rather than the superior T-90AM, which appears to have been passed over for large scale production in favor of the T-14 Armata.)īoth tanks have three-man crews, but the 5-ton Oplot-M is larger at 2.8 meters in height, while the 46-ton T-90 keeps a lower profile at 2.2 meters. Unlike the T-72, which makes up the majority of the Russian tank fleet today, the T-90 doesn’t appear to have been deployed in support of the separatists in Eastern Ukraine. It has also been exported widely, notably to India.
The T-90 is Russia’ s current top-line tank while it awaits its innovative new T-14 Armatas to enter service. The Oplot may find a counterpart in the Russian T-90, itself an evolution of the T-72 tank. How Does the Oplot Compare to Russia’s T-90 Main Battle Tanks? Most notably, it offers these niceties at a price of $5 million dollars at a time when contemporary main battle tanks like the LeClerc and upgraded M1s are clocking in at $8 million. The Oplot-M is agile, has excellent sensors, and is well protected by active and passive defensive systems. Several T-84 variants were conceived, culminating in the T-84 Oplot-M, which features a Western-style turret mounting the latest Ukrainian sensors and defensive systems. Ukraine, seeking to develop its arms industry independently from Russia after splitting from the Soviet Union, designed a souped-up T-80 with a more powerful engine and a new turret called the T-84. However, the T-80s’ gas-guzzling engines and tendency of their ammunition to catch fire when the tank was hit was seized upon for official blame, and led to Russia withdrawing this type from use in favor of cheaper, upgraded T-72 tanks, and later, T-90s. This was largely a result of terrible tactics-the tanks, manned by untrained conscripts, were sent into the middle of the city of Grozny without much infantry support. The T-80 never got over the bad rap it received in the first Chechen War when hundreds were knocked out by Chechen rockets. The T-84 Oplot is basically a Ukrainian-made derivative of the speedy T-80 tank- once considered the pinnacle of Soviet-era tank design.
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