Russia is installing toilets in the wildly expensive Nato killer T-14 supertanks it can’t afford
- Russia is equipping its state-of-the-art T-14 Armata main battle tanks with toilets to make it easier for troops to take care of business in the field
- The high cost of the new tanks coupled with repeated budget cuts led Russia to drastically reduce its planned order from more than 2000 to just 100 last year
It's hard to wage war when nature calls, so Russia is installing toilets in its troubled third-generation T-14 main battle tanks, Russian state media revealed Thursday.
The days of relieving themselves in fuel and ammo cans or hopping out to dig single-use latrines are apparently over for Russia's tank crews, at least those manning the T-14 Armata tanks, Ilya Baranov, a senior official at the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Machine-Building in Yekaterinburg, told TASS News Agency.
“A major hassle for [tank crews] is that they cannot relieve their natural functions,” Baranov said.
“That is, water and field rations are available in the tank, but all the other conveniences are, unfortunately, absent.”
The Armata has solved this problem.
“This tank provides this possibility for a crew to perform lengthy combat missions” without having to stop, he said.