Vietnam has confirmed the purchase of 64 Russian tanks T-90S/SK

The state news agency of viet nam confirmed the contract for the purchase of 64 tanks T-90s/sk of the Russian production. Earlier it was reported that Russia sold T-90s tanks to Iraq and vietnam. It should be published in "Uralvagonzavod" final report for the year 2016. July 4, corporation "Uralvagonzavod" has published the final report on activities for the year 2016. In it, in particular, stated that vietnam signed a contract for the supply of 64 tanks of the T-90s and T-90ск.

Subsequently, the report was removed from the access site, the company reports "Military informant. "Main battle tank T-90s at the exhibition of military equipment in omsk in 2010 in the section dedicated to the plans of military-technical cooperation in 2017, stated that the corporation intends to implement the two contracts for the supply of tanks T-90s/sk. One of them, 64 of the tank, concluded with customer "704". The second concluded with customer "368", it will be shipped the first batch of 73 machines. T-90s — export version of T-90.

On the tank there are no floodlights otsu the blind, in their place additional explosive reactive armour blocks. T-90ск — commander's version of T-90s tanks, with additional liaison and navigation equipment. According to all-russian classifier of countries of the world (oksm) "704" is vietnam, "368" is Iraq. Vietnam is one of the most important partners of Russia in the sphere of military-technical cooperation. In particular, he received anti-aircraft system s-300pmu-1 (two divisions), 36 SU-30mk2, corvettes of the project 11661э "Cheetah" (two transferred, two are under construction in russia), two battalions of anti-ship missile complexes "Bastion", as well as six diesel-electric submarines of project 636.