The T-14 tank is equipped with a gun that boasts a five-mile range. In the past, Russia has claimed the tank has a stealth coating that makes it untraceable on enemy radars.
Other features include a fully autonomous turret that can rotate 360 degrees, UV detectors to warn of incoming fire, and a 125mm smoothbore cannon.
Putin has previously branded it the “world’s best tank.”
Ukraine has already destroyed some of these tanks in the ongoing war.
In 2022, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry released footage of a destroyed T-14, adding that they had taken out “the pride of the Russian tank industry.”
Since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, Putin’s men have reportedly lost nearly all of the tanks that had at the start of the war. Figures also estimate that Russia has lost 3,000 armoured vehicles since the war began.
As fighting on the frontline continues, Russian missiles are raining down on Kyiv.
Overnight, Russia fired two ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles as well as 11 bombers, according to Kyiv administrators. Thirteen people were injured, but no deaths have been recorded.
This comes as a leading think tank warns that Russia is preparing for a “large-scale conventional conflict with NATO.”
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based in the US, warns that the conflict could come “not imminently but likely on a shorter timeline than what some Western analysts have initially posited.”
The ISW added: “Putin’s attempts to set conditions to stabilise Russia’s economy and finances are most likely part of… preparations for a potential future large-scale conflict with NATO and not just for a protracted war in Ukraine.”
