Black Eagle (tank)

Чёрный Орёл "Black Eagle"
Black Eagle at Omsk Arms Show in June 1999
Type	Main battle tank
Place of origin	Russia
Production history
Designer	Omsk Transmash
Designed	1980s
Specifications
Mass	48.0 tons
Length	~ 7.0 m
Width	3.58 m
Height	1.80 m
Crew	3
Armour	Kontakt-5 ERA Kaktus ERA
Main armament	125 mm 2A46 gun - 152 mm possible
Secondary armament	7.62 mm PKT Machine gun 12.7 mm "Kord" (Корд) anti-air machine gun
Engine	GTD-1400 (ГТД-1400), gas turbine 1400 hp[vague] (1030 kW or 1040 kW)
Power/weight	27 hp/t
Suspension	Torsion bar
Ground clearance	451 mm

The Black Eagle tank (Russian: Чёрный Орёл, Chyornyy Oryol) or Object 640 was a presumed prototype main battle tank based upon the T-80UM-2, developed by the KBTM design bureau of Omsktransmash in the late 1990s for the Russian Federation. The Black Eagle was cancelled, with all production and development halted in 2009.^[1]

The company developing the tank, Omsktransmash, went bankrupt,^[2] with its designs and projects absorbed into Uralvagonzavod and state-owned services.^[3] Before the acquisition Uralvagonzavod was developing the T-95 in competition to the Black Eagle, and then owned the rights to both projects. However, the Russian government withdrew all support and funding for both projects, and they were superseded by the T-14 Armata,^[4][1] which was also being developed by Uralvagonzavod.^[5]