MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 10 enterprises of the Russian Conventional Weapons Agency will take part in the arms show in the Siberian city of Omsk scheduled for June 3 to 7, chief of the agency's press service Pyotr Afanasyev said on Thursday.
The VTTV-Omsk 2003 international exhibition of military hardware, technologies, and armaments will involve the Omsktansmash enterprise, producer of the T-80 tank and its varieties, the Uralvagonzavod enterprise based in Nizhny Tagil, producer of T-90 tanks, the Omsk-based Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau, the Izhmash corporation, the Tula armory, and other leading enterprises of the agency, Afanasyev told Interfax- Military News Agency.
The Transport Machine-Building Design Bureau will exhibit T- 55 and T-62 tanks in Omsk.
"Over 60,000 tanks of these makes are in the inventory of foreign nations alone," Afanasyev said.
The bureau has worked out design documents for upgrading the T-55 and T-62, "which will bring their specifications up to the level of modern T-80 and T-90 tanks," he noted.
Modernized T-55 and T-62 can be fitted with dynamic protection of the hull and turret and a new fire control system.
Visitors of the show will also see up-to-date engineer vehicles made on the basis of armored vehicles, including the BREM-80U armored repair and evacuation vehicle, MTU-90 bridge layer, TMM-6 heavy mechanized bridge, and IMR-2MA engineering barrage clearing vehicle.
"Most armament and military hardware samples will be demonstrated in action at a proving range in the Svetly village during the exhibition," Afanasyev said.