Shtora-1 soft kill system was installed on a tank for the first time ever to ensure guided missile control disruption and laser range-finder countermeasures. The Urals-based plant took a different approach. American M1 Abrams – one of the heaviest modern thick-armored tanks – was treated as the main competitor. The Т-90 was created with due regard to the T-72 tank development and improvement experience, and to the study of recent military conflicts. For the latest T-90M ‘Propyv-3’ version being deployed currently, the Uralvagonzavod designers have introduced a set of conceptual innovations both in terms of protection and armament and crew's comfort, meaning that they have actually created a new tank. The T-90 has been upgraded numerous times over the past years.
This series of vehicles took on the world market – they became the world’s best-selling tanks in the first decade of the 2000s. T-90 tank was brought into service thirty years ago in autumn 1992.
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