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The BM Oplot is a further development of the prior T-84 Oplot. The tank has a conventional layout with the driver's compartment at the front, fighting compartment in the middle and engine at the rear, accommodating a crew of three. The driver sitting in the centre is provided with a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the right.
The following is a list of ammunition fired by the 125 mm smoothbore gun series used in the T-64, T-72, T-80, M-84, T-90, PT-91, T-14 Armata, and other tanks derived from those designs, as well as the 2A45 Sprut anti-tank gun.
This is a list of main battle tanks, and other vehicles serving that role, in active military service with countries of the world. A main battle tank (MBT) is the type of powerful, heavily armoured and highly mobile tank which is the backbone of a mechanized land force.
Tanks of the Ukrainian Army have been used within the military, with their usage and origin after the Cold War; and the modern era. [1] This includes tanks manufactured in Ukraine, leftover Soviet tanks in the Ukrainian Ground Forces today as well as designs imported from other countries and tanks captured in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The first generation of main battle tanks was based on or influenced by designs of World War II, most notably the Soviet T-34. [4] The second generation was equipped with NBC protection (only sometimes), night-vision devices, a stabilized main gun and at least a mechanical fire-control system. [ 4 ]
During the Yom Kippur war, the T-62 was an effective adversary for Israeli Patton and Centurion main battle tanks armed with 105 mm tank guns. The T-62 had an advantage in its better night-fighting capability, but Syrian losses were heavy.
A ₹ 10,000 crore (US$1.2 billion) purchase of 354 new T-90SM tanks for six tank regiments for the China border was being planned in 2012, [58] making India, with a total of nearly 4,500 tanks (T-90 and variants, T-72 and Arjun MBT) in active service, the world's third-largest operator of tanks.
Anti-tank rocket launcher: M20 Super Bazooka: 3.5 in (88.9 mm) caliber warhead United States: Military aid from the United States in 1960s and main man portable anti tank weapon used until 1990s RPG-2: Anti-tank rocket launcher: BA-103: 40 mm barrel 82mm warhead Soviet Union: Received from Israel in 1980s and used extensively in 1980s and 90s