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| Obiekt 187 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Main battle tank |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union |
| Service history | |
| In service | Never, prototype only |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Vladimir Ivanovich Potkin (chief designer) UKBTM - Ural Design Bureau of Transport Machine-Building |
| Designed | late 1980s - middle 1990s |
| Manufacturer | Uralvagonzavod |
| Variants | 6 |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 50 metric tons |
| Crew | 3 |
| Armour | 950 mm (maximum physical thickness, not counting the reactive armor) Composite armour / reactive armour (turret and hull front) Rolled homogeneous armour (rest of the tank) |
Main armament | 125 mm 2A66 smoothbore tank gun (48 calibers long barrel) |
Secondary armament | 7.62 mm coaxial PKT machine gun 12.7 mm NSVT heavy machine gun |
| Engine | А-85-2 diesel engine 1200 hp |
Object 187 (Объект 187), was a Soviet experimental main battle tank developed between the late 1980s and middle 1990s. It remains a relatively unpublicized development because of high levels of secrecy surrounding the project.