![]() This tank added a through-the-barrel ATGM capability (as Article 219R) and in 1983 was also fitted with reactive armor protection and became the T-80BV, which appeared in forward units such as the GSFG in 1985.īut even this “improved” T-80 had lousy mileage – with 600 liters of extra fuel and all internal fuel it could barely reach 380 kilometers on highways. ![]() A T-80A model went nowhere, and it was only with the T-80B the tank went into production in the early 1980s. This tank was approved for service in 1976, but with such poor mileage the Red Army did not want it. Under chief designer Nikolay Popov, they produced Article 219 which was the prototype of the T-80. Undaunted, the Leningrad Kirov Factory under Zhosef Kotin volunteered to put a turbine in the T-64 chassis. Kharkov (the T-64 producer) and Nizhniy Tagil (the T-72 builder) tried fitting turbines to their tanks, and while they worked, neither factory would accede to making them as they got horrible mileage. But when word leaked out in the early 1970s that the US was considering a turbine engine for their next main battle tank, he had to have one too. But the T-64 had a lousy engine and many features which had not been full thought through, so a “back-up” version, the T-72, soon eclipsed it with the Red Army. He was starry-eyed over the T-64 tank and wanted it to be the main battle tank of all Soviet forces. In regard to Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitriy Ustinov, he loved new toys and under Brezhnev what Dmitriy wants, Dmitriy gets. Highly Recommended (tentative based on missing elements) for all modern Russian armor fans ![]() Unknown due to being a pre-release version of the kit Most accurate T-80 class tank kit so far, nice use of molding techniques for some parts ![]() XS35001 T-80U Soviet Main Battle TankĤ28 parts (391 parts in grey styrene, 33 etched brass, 2 flexible tracks, 1 length of twisted wire, 1 clear styrene) Russia > Xact Scale Models 1/35 scale Kit No. ![]()
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