{"id":1976,"date":"2015-04-21T18:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2015-04-21T18:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:20:46","slug":"russia-unveils-photos-of-its-new-armata-battle-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-unveils-photos-of-its-new-armata-battle-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia unveils photos of its new Armata battle tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Russian Defense Ministry releases images of brand new Armata tank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russian military has released its first official picture of the new &#8220;Armata&#8221; Universal Combat Platform that will form the base of its main battle tank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pictures come as part of the preparations for the Victory Day parade on May 9 in the Russian capital. Among the over 100 vehicles that will drive through the streets of Moscow during this year&#8217;s event, there will be ten T-14 battle tanks that are built on the &#8220;Armata&#8221; platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has called for the plan to be scaled back, while Moscow-based Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) has called the rearmament strategy an outdated Soviet approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe modern Russian economy just doesn\u2019t generate enough resources to finance the current 2011-2020 rearmament program,\u201d CAST said in a report. \u201cThis seriously reduces the ability to efficiently renew the Russian armed forces\u2019 equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rearmament plan has remained a priority for President Vladimir Putin, with military spending staying as planned, despite 10 percent budget cuts in most other areas. Defense spending accounts for a third of the overall budget in Russia, while the economy is expected to contract by as much as 4 percent, amid a down oil market and conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Armata T-14 tanks will be a star attraction of the celebration in 26 cities across Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, according to <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/business\/article\/russian-defense-ministry-reveals-first-photo-of-new-armata-t-14-tank\/519427.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/specifications-of-russian-armata-e1429640355232.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1978\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/specifications-of-russian-armata-1024x780.jpg?resize=1016%2C774\" alt=\"specifications-of-russian-armata\" width=\"1016\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Defense Ministry releases images of brand new Armata tank The Russian military has released its first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[6,5,20,63],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-defense","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/russian-armata-tank1.jpg?fit=690%2C388&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-vS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}