T-90 Standard Tank: The First Tank of the New Russia

by Steven J. Zaloga

A highly illustrated study of the T-90, the backbone of the armoured units of Putin's Russia. In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important break in Russian/Soviet tank design history. The T-90 has become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472818229
• ISBN13: 9781472818225
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.1" x 9.5"