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EddieTheHead
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Why do the Russians parade fewer T-14 Armata tanks every year on Victory Day?
The Russian government paraded seven prototype T-14 tanks in 2015 and 2016, five of them in 2017 and 2018, and four in 2019 and 2020. In 2021, only three seemed to be driven on Red Square, but I’m not certain because the official video avoided them. In 2022 there are still none in service, and again only three are to be paraded.
Two months after the 2018 parade, they announced that the already-delayed 2,300-tank production run had been cancelled, and only the test batch of 100 would be completed, with deliveries starting by 2020. No, in 2020. When they get the engines working. (The tanks shown to date are prototypes.) No, 2022.
The T-14 is a symbol of failure. It is being deemphasized. They just didn’t bother getting seven of them in running order for this year’s parade. Even the publicized photos and video in Russian media avoid showing the entire T-14 platoon of four, while the official 66-minute video gives them only 23 seconds of air time. Russian media instead focusses momentarily on a single T-14 tank, dwells on the larger full company of modernized Cold-War-era T-72 tanks, or on other aspects of the celebration of militarism.
In the landmark 75th anniversary parade of 2020, the four T-14 were overshadowed by enough other tanks to equip a battalion. Of “newer” newly refurbished models, ten T-72B3, ten T-80BVM, and six T-90M, plus eleven antique T-34-85.
