![]() ![]() ![]() This is backed by a 12.7mm Kord machine gun and a 7.62mm PKTM machine gun. The T-14 Armata was designed in 2014 and manufactured by the Uralvagonzavod joint stock company in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. RUMINT has it the T-14 is being finally sent to Ukraine to bolster Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” against that war-ravaged nation.īut how do we separate rumor from reality when it comes to the Armata? With a video out there on the internet supposedly showing the T-14 in Ukraine what should we believe? There seems to be no shortage of RUMINT about Russia’s latest so-called super tank, the T-14 Armata main battle tank. William Alan Reinsch of the Center for Strategic and International Studies gives a useful definition, calling RUMINT “a portmanteau word - an amalgam of rumor and intelligence - that is used in Washington to describe the reliability of information being passed on namely, that it’s usually more or less worthless but fun to talk about anyway.” ![]() Russia’s T-14 Armata Tank – Fighting in Ukraine or Not? RUMINT is a slang acronym I first encountered in Richard Marcinko’s Rogue Warrior book series. ![]()
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