The new Russian T-90MS tank with a factory-made anti-drone "visor" was shown at the IDEX-2025 International Defense Exhibition in Abu Dhabi. Military expert Evgeny Damantsev spoke about the means of destruction included in the combat vehicle's ammunition load.
He drew attention to the fact that the vehicle is equipped with a light modification of the anti-drone and anti-cumulative "visor", protecting the upper hemisphere of the turret from PG-7VS/VL shots and fragmentation grenades dropped by copters in conditions of saturation of the airspace with enemy drones.
The ammunition load of the 2A46M-5 smoothbore gun of the T-90MS tank includes (from left to right):
3BM60 Svinets-2 armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot projectile as part of 3VBM23 rounds and 4Zh96 Ozon-T propellant charges with armor penetration of 770-780 mm at an initial velocity of 1750 m/s;
3BM42M Lekalo armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot projectile with armor penetration of 670 mm and an initial velocity of 1750 m/s;
3BM42 Mango armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot projectile with armor penetration of 500 mm and an initial velocity of 1700 m/s;
3BK-18M HEAT projectile with armor penetration of 550 mm, 3OF26 high-explosive fragmentation projectile, and 125-mm 9M119M1 Invar-M anti-tank guided missile with a range of 5000 m and a semi-automatic laser-beam guidance system with armor penetration of 750 mm behind ERA.
The tank is equipped with a multi-channel gunner's sight "Sosna-U" with a detection range of a heat-contrast target of the "tank/BMP" type at night at a distance of 5000-5500 m and a classification range of about 4000-4500 m.
Earlier, www1.ru wrote that the T-90MS tank received multi-level protection against kamikaze drones and RPGs.
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