Russian Defense Ministry to get several hundred T-72B3 tanks

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The cost of modernization is around 1.5mln$ per one tank. Modernization including a new FCS with thermal vision, new gun, new radio station and navigation system, Kontakt-V ERA and fully repair of hull and engine.

and how its related to Ukrainian crisis?

As anyone who reads the Western press, he thinks Ukraine at war with Russia, but not with the freedom loving people of New Russia.

 

[Hindustani78]

The cost of modernization is around 1.5mln$ per one tank. Modernization including a new FCS with thermal vision, new gun, new radio station and navigation system, Kontakt-V ERA and fully repair of hull and engine.

and how its related to Ukrainian crisis?

Its not only about Ukrainian crisis but even the whole larger issue which is starting in the Arctic and all the other important location , this means that NATO member countries will invest in Anti Tank missiles in large numbers.

November 28, 2014
29 units of T-72B3 tanks arrived in one of the mechanized infantry units in Chechnya.

Dec 10 2014
About 30 tanks have been supplied to the Amur combined arms force of the district. Tank units of the Eastern Military District deployed in the Amur region will fully switch to the new tanks in the first half of 2014,"

Colonel-General Salyukov also said that the new Arctic Command “North”, consisting of two Arctic brigades will be formed in three years.

“For the protection of national interests in the Arctic created interspecific grouping of troops (forces). At present, the formation of the separate motorized rifle brigade (Arctic) in the Murmansk region. Second Arctic brigade will be formed during 2016 in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, “- said the commander in chief.

 

[Penguin]

Around 1100

Source?

 

[Hindustani78]

is this true ?

By the end of 2013, the Western Military District received about 270 machines. Currently, the Army of Russia has in its arsenal 8 thousand tanks of series T-72 (most are in storage), some of which will continue to be upgraded to the new version. T-72B3 should be the main battle tank before entering into service of a new generation of tanks “Armata”.

 

[Hindustani78]

Russia's Western Military District Receives Upgraded Main Battle Tanks / Sputnik International

08.04.2015
Russia's Western Military District Receives Upgraded Main Battle Tanks / Sputnik International

Russian Defense Ministry's Western Military District received refurbished T-72B3 main battle tanks, according to the district's press service.

The upgraded 125-mm smoothbore gun, using armor-piercing sabots, is the tank's main armament. The tank is also fitted with a 7.62 mm machine gun and a roof-mounted 12.7 mm antiaircraft machine gun.

The T-72B3 is equipped with a new ballistic computer and a fire control system to improve firing accuracy. The tank's sight has day/night capability and can be used under any weather conditions. The tanks also have new communication systems.
The upgraded tanks, manufactured at the Uralvagonzavod plant, are expected to go into service in the near future. The Western Military District received approximately 2,000 pieces of military equipment in the last three months.

Russian army received several hundred upgraded T-72B3 battle tanks in the last two years.

 

[Penguin]

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