For more than nine months of the full-scale invasion, the newest russia’s T-14 Armata tank (unlike the T-90M Proryv) has never been spot on the battlefield: on the one hand, the logical explanation is that because the state tests of this tank have to be completed only in 2023, along with other russian latest samples of military technology.
On the other hand, since the occupiers often spoke favorably of their latest tank, why not test it directly on the battlefield? And it seems that in order to "cover up" all the shortcomings of this tank, which might emerge in real combat operations, the occupiers decided to give the excuses why the Armata is unlikely to appear on the front line.
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In particular, they are allegedly afraid that the Armata will repeat the fate of one of the T-90M, which the Taman division left behind during the escape from Kharkiv oblast. At that time, russian experts worried that this tank would fall into the hands of American specialists, who would reveal all the secrets of the newest T-90M Proryv.
The occupiers also complain that the "Armata" is a very expensive vehicles, the cost ranges from 350 to 500 million rubles. And, overall, why is this tank needed so much if, for example, at least seven T-72s to the B3 modification can be modernized. And seven tanks will definitely be better than one, even the modern Armata.
After all, there is also such an interesting point: the Armata, which was created as a component of "new generation war" or "network-centric war", simply will not find a place on the battlefield, because it can interact only with those few T-90M on the battlefield, and "full-fledged" use involves applying it together with, for example, the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV artillery complex, its state tests will also take place in 2023.
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