Uralvagonzavod to supply 1,500 units of equipment to military this year
PATRIOT PARK (Moscow region). Sept 7 (Interfax) - Uralvagonzavod, which develops and manufactures tanks, will supply to the Armed Forces 1,500 units of modernized and new equipment this year, Uralvagonzavod CEO Oleg Siyenko told Interfax on Wednesday.
"As a corporation, we're supplying 1,500 units to the Armed Forces this year. It's modernized equipment and new products," he said on the sidelines of Army-2016 forum.
Siyenko told Interfax at the forum INNOPROM in Yekaterinburg in July that Uralvagonzavod is ready to increase the supply to the Armed Forces of new and modernized equipment. "Our capabilities are some 40% higher than the maximal capabilities we had last year. Everything depends on the budgets and the customers' needs. We are guided by them," Siyenko said then.
Uralvagonzavod is a multi-sector machine-building complex, which produces some 100 types of products, specifically, military equipment, road construction machines, all-metal open cars, specialized wagons and rail containers. The Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) holds a 100% stake in the company.
Uralvagonzavod is the developer and manufacturer of the Russian T-90 combat tank.
Uralvagonzavod has developed the new T-14 Armata tank.
