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The T-80 design improved on several aspects of the earlier T-64 design, introducing a gas turbine engine in the original model, [b] and incorporating suspension components of the T-72. This gave the tank a high power-to-weight ratio and made it easily the most mobile tank in service, albeit with acute range problems, as the turbine used fuel ...
Russian T-80U, 2002 ( "U" for uluchsheniye, meaning "improvement") A further development of T-80A. It was produced as a new vehicle, nothing to do with old tanks from storage. This version has a new 1,100 hp (820 kW) GTD-1000F multi-fuel gas turbine engine and new turret with improved composite armor. T-80U also received a different engine decking.
Pages in category "Aircraft engine manufacturers of South Korea" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The company is Korea's only gas turbine engine manufacturer, and specializes in the development, production and maintenance of aircraft engines. In 1979, it started the aircraft engine business with gas turbine engine depot maintenance business, providing various gas turbine solutions to Korea and all over the world and by 2016 the company had ...
T-80U of the 3rd Armored Brigade. In 1980, it was founded in Deokjeong-dong, Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, as the 3rd independent armored brigade of the ROK Army.In 1983, the 20th Division was reorganized into the 20th Mechanized Infantry Division, so the 107th and 26th Tank Battalion under the 3rd Independent Armored Brigade were subordinated to the 20th Mechanized Infantry Division, and the ...
Aircraft engine manufacturers of South Korea (2 P) Pages in category "Engine manufacturers of South Korea" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, sparking the Korean War, the Cold War's first major conflict that continued until 1953. When the North Koreans invaded South Korea in June 1950, using T-34s, the South Koreans had no armor of their own so had to retreat in the face of North Korean tanks.
It is also believed North Korea acquired three samples of T-80 in early 1990s from Afghanistan. [9] [10] North Korea's interest in the T-90 was demonstrated in August 2001 when Kim Jong-il visited the Omsktransmash defense plant which builds the T-90 during his visit to Russia. However, North Korea failed to acquire T-90 since then, as South ...