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Below you find direct translation of article from Russian
 Newspaper. link It was translated as is, with no comment.
 I found some parts of article very interesting and some
 very speculative. Tank- ghost with name T-95 There is no
new engine, no new gun or electronic-the is only promises.
 The Chief of Armament of Russian Army general Makarov
 announce on December 22, that testing of new tank for
 Russian Army shall be completed in 2008. The Russian Army
 suppose to get new tank in 2009. He told that this tank
 shall get new engine with transmission, new optic and
electronic for gun. He also acknowledge that the factories
 of Russian Armament industry can't produce high quality parts
 for new tank. The are a lot of speculations about new tank
 in Russia. Initially it suppose to be delivered to Army in 1994.
Mr Batuev, the President of Union of Armament Industry of
 Sverdlovs, where main factory is located told in 2001 that
production of new tank would begin right after order of 310
 T-90 for India shall be completed. This announcement
 shocked Management of "Ural Wagon Factory"-
 the company that produce T-90 at that time. Vice
President of this company A. Churikov told about this
announcement: "I have no clue about any new tank that
 we suppose to produce, I don't even know what you are
 taking about. At that time factory did not produce tanks for
 10 years already. It was only one group of high quality
 workers who could assembled tanks and they were busy
 to work with few tanks that suppose to go to exhibitions.
 T-95 became legends. There a lot of rumors how it suppose
 to look like. Experts think that new tank for XXI Century
 suppose to be very compact, have high speed, hard to penetrate
 and have advance electronic. Weight suppose to be 50
 tons, the crew suppose to be in highly protected capsule
inside of body of tank and turret does not have a people.
 The turret suppose to have 135mm gun with autoloader,
 sensors and electronic jammers. Tank suppose to use
composite armor with dynamic protection system Arena,
 that suppose to defeat automatically any incoming
armor-penetrating rounds. Tank suppose to use diesel
with 1500-1800HP and it is possible, that it has X-shape.
 This engine suppose to use new transmission that
suppose to provide smooth ride. However it is not clear
if Russian Designers can develop engine like this. There is
 one more problem: The technology of production of
 Gun barrels was lost too. The barrels that produced today
can handle only 450 shots and if rockets are used, it can
 go as low as 50. Russian manufacturers have same
problem with electronic- T-90 that were sent to India
 used French termo displays and a lot of foreign
 components. Today we need to use even more
 foreign components, because production of electronic
does not stay still. Everybody know that the strongest
part of Russian tanks is ration between price and reability
. The foreign tanks are more expensive. The price for
 American Abrams, German Leopards-2AB, French
Leclerk MK2, Italian Ariette-2, Israeli Merkava-4 and
UK Challenger is 5 millions or more and can go up to
 10 Millions with additional components. At the low end
 of price range with price less than 5 millions we have Russian
 T-90 and base on it license copies produced in Iran, Poland,
Chinese, Pakistan and Ukraine. There are also South Korean
 clone of Abrams, tanks from Japan, Brazil and South
 Africa over there. The experts think that a lot of armys
 begin the modernization of armor forces and expensive
 tank shall take markets share 55%. However cheap
 tanks suppose to take at list 45% of market and Russian
 hope that it will take at list half of this sum.

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