 Instead, the preferred project was the Object 188 (T-90), which was a symbiosis of the T-72B's hull and some of the "Object 187"'s systems.According to its chief designer Vladimir Ivanovich Potkin, "Object 187" should have become the foundation for design and production of an entire future family of Soviet tanks, and to serve as a foundation for more advanced and powerful tanks.Even today secrecy around this tank remains.