Obiekt 187

Obiekt 187
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.