The armed forces will receive 1,500 tanks in 2023

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev became the first leader since the beginning of the NMD to name the annual production of one of the main types of combat platforms actively used in hostilities – main battle tanks.

“Our enemies believed that our industry would choke, that is, we would spend everything – these are their endless conversations. “We ran out of shells, ran out of tanks, ran out of rockets,” etc. This year we have 1,500 tanks alone. we will do it,” he said in an interview with Russian news agencies and users of the social network VK. “The military-industrial complex has become hot, it works actively, most enterprises (I’m talking about this firsthand, but because I drive around them) work in three shifts, they work, as they say, from wheels – they directly give everything to the troops, produce the most modern Russian types of weapons, and even in a situation where they are really trying to deprive us of components, cut off oxygen in certain areas,” Medvedev said. The new T-90M tank, according to Medvedev, “is the best tank in the world and surpasses the Western Leopard, Challenger and Abrams (transferred to Ukraine. – Vedomosti).