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Some T-80 tanks used in the assault lacked explosive reactive armour inserts. [38] Several tank-to-tank battles were recorded. During the fighting in late December 1994 and early January 1995, Russian T-80 tanks destroyed at least six rebel tanks. On the opposing side, one T-80 was disabled by a 125 mm shell. [39]
In the early 1960's, Ukraine developed and built the T-64 tank which is the most numerous tank Ukraine has today and was manufactured in Kharkiv, and designed by the KhMDB. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62 with heavier armor and replaced the smaller-diameter guns on the T-54/55/62 line with a new smoothbore 125-millimeter gun.
T-72UA1 (2011–14, 171 delivered to Ethiopia, about 30 to Ukrainian Forces) T-72E (2011) T-72AMT (2017) T-80 main battle tank (1976, turret designed at KMDB, tank at the Leningrad Kirov Plant in Russia) T-80UD Bereza, diesel version of the gas-turbine T-80U (1987–2002 by Malyshev, 430 delivered to Pakistan, 4 to the United States) T-80UDK ...
The T-84 is a Ukrainian main battle tank (MBT), based on the Soviet T-80 MBT introduced in 1976, specifically the diesel engine version: T-80UD. The T-84 was first built in 1994 and entered service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1999.
In 1966, the tank design bureau (Department 60) and experimental tank production shop (Shop 190) were combined into the Kharkiv Machine Building Design Bureau (KMDB). In 1979, after the death of Morozov, it was renamed in his honor. KMDB designed the T-80UD, a diesel-engined variant of the gas turbine-powered T-80, in 1985.
Captured Russian tanks and vehicles donated by NATO allies are also used. [105] [137] T-80 Soviet Union Russia Ukraine: T-80BV T-80BV mod T-80BVM T-80U T-80UK 80+ [138] Used by the Ground Forces and Air Assault Forces. [138] Some captured Russian T-80BVMs and T-80UKs were pressed into service. [139] [140] [141] M-84 Yugoslavia: M-84A4 30
After Ukraine’s Kharkiv counteroffensive, in which Kyiv is estimated to have retaken as many as 3,500 square miles, the 4th Guards Tank Division lost nearly 100 of its T-80U tanks. (The 4th ...
The T-80 tank, with a high performance gas turbine engine was produced beginning in 1983, [4] followed in 1985 by a more conventional diesel model, T-80UD. Finished tanks were assembled in several plants, but Soviet industrial planning prevented any region from being able to establish independent arms production.