Propaganda or experiment: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will send tanks T-80UM2 "Black Eagle" to the front

Ukrainian observers noted that one of these tanks was safely destroyed by Ukrainian defenders in Sumy in the spring of last year. Russian propagandists spread information on April 1 that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will send a "promising" T-80UM2 "Black Eagle", equipped with a tower of a new design to the war zone in Ukraine.

According to the profile Russian Telegram-channel "Tankers PVO" without reference to sources, the equipment should appear at the front in the second half of April. The publication noted the main characteristics of the VTT and modernization that the cars allegedly passed before sending to the front. The authors of the post reported that in addition to the tower of the new design, the tanks will be equipped with a 152mm gun instead of 125 mm. Moreover, a new weapon is paired with a machine gun 7.

62 mm and a remote automatic anti -aircraft installation "KORD" 12. 7 mm. In addition, it was stated that the running characteristics of the T-80UM2 surpass the Western analogues by capacity, because with a battle mass of 48 tons the tank is equipped with a new gas turbine engine with a capacity of more than 1500 hp.

"The specific power of the tank has exceeded 30 hp to tonne and, as a consequence, the dynamic characteristics of the" Black Eagle "significantly exceed the characteristics of the western tanks . On this occasion, the Russian "military inspection" reported that the "Black Eagle", known as "Object 640" is a harbinger of the ill-fated T-14 "Armat". However, there is no information that T-80Um2 was produced at least small.

However, the Russians acknowledge that although T-80U cannot compete with T-90 "Breakthrough", the tank will still be better than the T-55 that can join the ranks of the "Second Army in the World". Meanwhile, the Ukrainian edition of Defense Express drew attention to the fact that last spring, Ukrainian fighters in the Sumy direction were safely burned by a single sample T-80UM2, and another tank probably stands at a tank factory in Omsk.

Therefore, perhaps this car was the Russian warlords decided to throw it into battle. The observers also noted that Russian propagandists were likely to be confused and referred to the rare tanks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation T-80UE1, which were produced in the mid-2000s. Such machines, claim journalists, near the battalion, ie no more than 60 units. It was T-80UE1 that was shot down by defense forces in early April 2023 and five more cars were captured as a trophy.