Russian President comes to see Armata at Ural Vagon Zavod
27 November 2015 (09:19)
UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 27, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin went to Ural Vagon Zavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s head plant on his visit to Nizhniy Tagil on November 25.
According to the company press service, Putin looked at some prospective special-purpose developments at Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office/UKBTM (the corporation’s member enterprise) as well as met with some of the engineers and chaired a private conference.
UKBTM’s Director-General and Senior Designer Andrei Terlikov presented the plant’s modern Armata-based vehicles to the President. Terlikov made a report on the performance characteristics of the corporation’s infantry combat vehicle T15 and tank T14; some of the engineers and designers Putin met with were among those who’d developed the machines.
When asked by designer Alexander Ivko about how he saw the country’s future, the President said Russia should be prosperous, confident, and sovereign. The country needs ‘both defense and civil-goods industries to make sure that people’s lives get better and that we have the vehicles that this company makes’.
‘The Armata Project is currently at its closing stage. The company’s next goal is robotized vehicles. Just how much does the government need these right now?’ designer Evgeniy Gayev asked. He was explained that one should never rest on one’s laurels.
‘You always need to look further, what has been achieved has been achieved, it’s history already,’ the President said. He stressed that robotized vehicles would be useful for both military and civilian purposes.
According to the company press service, Putin looked at some prospective special-purpose developments at Ural Transport Machine-Building Design Office/UKBTM (the corporation’s member enterprise) as well as met with some of the engineers and chaired a private conference.
UKBTM’s Director-General and Senior Designer Andrei Terlikov presented the plant’s modern Armata-based vehicles to the President. Terlikov made a report on the performance characteristics of the corporation’s infantry combat vehicle T15 and tank T14; some of the engineers and designers Putin met with were among those who’d developed the machines.
When asked by designer Alexander Ivko about how he saw the country’s future, the President said Russia should be prosperous, confident, and sovereign. The country needs ‘both defense and civil-goods industries to make sure that people’s lives get better and that we have the vehicles that this company makes’.
‘The Armata Project is currently at its closing stage. The company’s next goal is robotized vehicles. Just how much does the government need these right now?’ designer Evgeniy Gayev asked. He was explained that one should never rest on one’s laurels.
‘You always need to look further, what has been achieved has been achieved, it’s history already,’ the President said. He stressed that robotized vehicles would be useful for both military and civilian purposes.
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