Collection of images of the T-90M with the fifth PNM-T mounting
Taken from: "Between The Lines" Между Строк Cleaning the barrel. Loading an inert high-explosive training shell 3OF26IN. (Original) (Edited) 2A46M gun without thermal shroud.
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Changes made to recent Russian tank designs
"According to unverified information from sources in the military-industrial complex, during the Syrian campaign, Uralvagonzavod specialists made about one and a half hundred technological changes to the design of tanks, both in service and promising (designs). The T-14 was no exception. In the course of the military tests on the territory of the SAR ( Syrian Arab Republic), a number of problematic solutions were identified regarding the level of sensitivity of the system for detecting incoming projectiles, an optical-location complex, and a power-plant."
5th tank to receive the PNM-T sighting complex
Around the 22nd December it was officially confirmed that a T-90M Obr. 2017 had officially received the new PNM-T sighting complex, designed for Russian tank modernisations like the T-80BVM, T-72B3 Obr. 2016 and the T-90M. This T-90M Obr. 2017 is not new - four tanks before it had already received the sighting complex. But this time, it had also received a new sight cover, as shown below. Compared to the old one, shown below is the fourth tank to receive the PNM-T sighting complex, a T-90MS Obr. 2015, shown during the JSC Roboronsexport live-stream on YouTube: The PNM-T is a supposed 640x512 matrix, MWIR (3 - 5 micrometres) sight developed by PJSC ANPP TEMP-AVIA in around 2018 to 2019. Its main purpose was to either completely replace the existing Sosna-U, that was mounted on most T-90M, T-90MS, T-72B3, T-80BVM and some T-90A tanks, ESSA, mounted exclusively on T-90A tanks and Plisa which is used on T-80UE-1 tanks. The sights mentioned above all use French CATHERINE-FC components ...