Before the collapse of the USSR in local KB has created several modern combat vehicles, one of which is a tank Leningrad "object 292", writes Mordovia Herald.
this tank, which was a further development of T-80, It was equipped with a 152.4 mm smooth-bore weapon ballistics high. "The powerful gun, which even now, afford to deal with the most advanced version of the American easily “Abrams”, German “leopard” NATO and other armored monsters, It was created at the Perm Machine-Building Plant ", - says the publication of Leo Romanova.
Test machine began to range in Rzhev 1991 year.
On the way were active protection, modern fire control system with a thermal imager, Information Management System. If funding for the project continued, "The Leningrad “Abramskaput” I have successfully passed the tests and could be adopted for use in the first half of the 90s ", the author notes.
According to experts, on the basis of the modernized T-80 it was quite possible to create a new generation of tank. Around the same time, it has been created and tested a gas turbine engine with a capacity of 1500 hp, "Which would give the new combat vehicle the unique characteristics of mobility".
Today, this tank, long remained a secret, demonstrated in Moscow Kubinka. Machine - on the move and regularly impresses with its power museum guests.
