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Hyperbole at best, given that artillery isn't all that effective against modern tanks. Also, note that this isn't actually a new variant. The 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV self propelled artillery piece was always supposed to be mounted on the Armata chassis; the ones seen in the 2015 Victory Day parade...

The 1991 prototype was the Black Eagle, which was cancelled due to a combination of high cost and the extremely poor reliability of the T-80 during the First Chechen-Russian War (which led to the Russians declaring they would never try a turbine engine tank again). The one Black Eagle seen was...

From what we've seen, the T14 Armata is extremely unreliable. The Russians were extremely humiliated when they tried to show the first test batch vehicles off at the Moscow Victory Parade in 2015. There was much ooohing and aaaahing until one broke down just driving in a straight line. More...