The Uralvagonzavod concern has for the first time published in the public domain unique footage of mobility trials of the T-90S tank in the jungle. They took place from June 19 to August 19, 2000, in Malaysia.
The footage was preserved on an old videotape belonging to one of the test engineers who took part in those tests. At the time of the trials, the temperature outside was around 40 degrees Celsius, UVZ noted.
The T-90S was driven where, it would seem, tanks do not belong: tropical jungle, swamps, difficult terrain. Before that, the T-90 had covered laps in India\"s Thar Desert, and then almost immediately made a 1,300-kilometer dash through the jungles of Malaysia.
The concern added that in the 2000s the T-90S passed all the toughest trials in three different climate zones — in Malaysia with its humid tropics and swamps, in India with a combination of deserts, highlands, and monsoons, as well as in Saudi Arabia with abrasive sand and heat above 50 degrees.
Earlier it became known that UVZ and Rosoboronexport are ready to offer Malaysia flexible cooperation arrangements for the latest T-90MS tanks, including assembly and full service support for the combat vehicles.
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