Russia's new Armata tank breaks down in rehearsal for debut parade
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Version 0 of 1. Russia’s new high-tech Armata tank appeared to have broken down today in a parade rehearsal for it’s debut. The new T-14 tank has been touted as one of the most impressive pieces of military hardware ever produced by the country and is set to officially debut in Moscow for the Victory Day parade on Saturday However, the new vehicle unexpectedly stopped in front of the Lenin’s mausoleum with the engine still running. A Russian T 14 Armata tank rides through Red Square in Moscow, on 7 May 2015, during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade. Russia will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany. The rest of the parade continued while the tank sat motionless. An attempt to tow the vehicle away failed, before the T-14 eventually restarted and moved off around 15 minutes later. While the fault appeared to be genuine, the announcer of the parade said it was a ‘planned’ event. “We wanted to show how an evacuation of a tank would take place. It was planned that the tank would stop,” he told the crowd in Red Square. RuptlyTV were in Red Square to film the disruption in the parade: The Armata’s main advantage over existing vehicles is the inclusion of an unmanned turret, which is controlled remotely from an isolated armored capsule. It only requires two people to operate the vehicle and it also boasts a state-of-the-art radar system that can simultaneously track up to 40 ground and 25 air targets within a 60-mile (100km) radius.
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