Brief
The T-64 is a Soviet medium tank that entered service in the mid -1960s . Designed by Morozov's design bureau in Kharkiv ( then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ), the T-64 was considered revolutionary at the time and caused a technological break with the line of medium tanks T-54 , T -55 and T-62 of the previous generation, less sophisticated. All the later Soviet tanks (T-72 and T-80 ) were inspired by the T-64 but paradoxically, its complexity was also a failure, because it made it necessary to put theT-72 , cheaper and easier to mass-produce.
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informations
| T-64 | |
.jpg?uselang=fr) T-64BV of the Ukrainian army in 2017 at the exercise. | |
| Service characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Service | 1967- |
| Users | .svg?uselang=fr){kind=small} Soviet Union Ukraine Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Democratic Republic of the Congo Russia     |
| Conflicts | Dniester War Donbass War Kamwina Nsapu Rebellion 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine |
| Production | |
| Designer | Morozov design bureau |
| Year of conception | 1951-1962 |
| Builder | Malyshev factory in Kharkiv |
| Production | 1963-1987 |
| Units produced | ~13,000 |
| Main Features | |
| Crew | 3 (driver, gunner, tank commander) |
| Length | 6.54 m (9.225 m with gun) |
| Lenght | 3.41m _ |
| Height | 2.17m _ |
| Mace in battle | 36-42.4 t (depending on model) |
| Shielding (thickness/inclination) | |
| Kind | composite |
| Armament | |
| Main armament | T-64: a 115 mm 2A21 gun T-64A: a 125 mm D81 gun T-64 bulat: a 125 mm KVA3 gun |
| Secondary armament | 1x coaxial 7.62mm PKT machine gun 1x 12.7mm NVS machine gun |
| Mobility | |
| Engine | 5TDF |
| Powerful | 700 hp 800 hp Ukrainian version |
| Suspension | torsion bar |
| Road speed | 60.5 km/h |
| Power to weight | 16.5-19.9 hp/t (depending on model) |
| Tank | 1270ℓ |
| Autonomy | 500km _ |
Operators
Current operators
Russia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
congo
Additional information
Active and reactive protection
From 1979, the T-64 received twelve Tucha-1 smoke grenade launchers placed at the front of the turret. These could launch their grenades between 200 and 350 m , allowing to create in a few seconds a smoke screen behind which the tank could hide 32 .
Although the Soviets began to study reactive armor as early as the late 1940s, it was not until the early 1980s that they derived operational protection from it. The Kontakt-1 system, adopted in 1985, consists of adding metal boxes to the tank containing a sheet of plastic , on which there is a metal plate: when a shaped charge reaches the box, the explosive is triggered , projecting the plate through the plasma jet, which is disturbed and thus loses most of its penetrating power 16 . On the Ukrainian T-64U, released in 2005, the Kontakt-1 system was replaced by the Kontakt-5 19 .
Modernizations
T-64
upgrade to T-64R standard between 1977 and 1981 , reorganization of external
equipment in imitation of the T-64A.
T-64A/AK
1972 redesign , improved fire control (TPD-2-49 and TPN-1-49-23), appearance of the NSVT machine gun on an electric turret, R-123M radio.
1975 refit , new 2E28M stabilizer, 6AZ10M magazine, flex-fuel engine, 2A46-1 gun and TNPA-65 night sight.
1981 redesign, two batteries of six 902A smoke grenade launchers, rubber skirts on the suspension in place of Gill protections.
T-64AM , T-64AKM , some examples of all series re-engined with 6TDF engine during maintenance operations.
T-64B/B1/BK/B1K
redesign of 1981, 2 groups of 4 smoke grenade launchers 902B, cannon
2A46M1.
T-64BM , T-64B1M , T-64BMK and T-64B1MK , some examples of all series re-engined with 6TDF engine during maintenance operations.
T-64BV , T-64B1V , T-64BVK and T-64B1VK Kontakt reactive armor, smoke grenade launcher on the left of the turret.
T-64MV , version created by Uzbekistan in service as of 2020, re-engining with an 840 hp V-84 fitted to the T-72s, addition of explosive reactive armor on the turret and glacis, as well as a set of cage armor on the sides, Hytera digital radio system of Chinese origin 39 , 40
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