have rendered the T-90’s armour and active protection systems ineffective. Poor maintenance, degraded electronics, and reports of reactive armor filled with rubber or empty compartments further ...

The T-90 has Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor, which is some of the best defensive armor developed for tanks in and out of Russia. Unfortunately, while this type of armor is especially useful in ...

After significant losses of the T-90 main battle tank (MBT ... attack weapons while still allowing situational awareness for the crew. Explosive-reactive armour (ERA) is fitted to the top of the ...

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Russian T-90 and T-80 main battle tanks will be outfitted with the Arena-M new reactive armor, High Precision Systems Group within the state tech corporation Rostec told ...

Now the active protection complexes for T-72 and T-90 tanks are at the stage of preliminary ... including reactive armor: when struck, the tanks burst into flames," the chief designer said.