Brief
The T-80 is a battle tank resulting from a development of the T-64 , on which for the first time in the USSR was adopted a turboshaft propulsion . The T-80 was developed in the late 1970s , and began to be deployed massively from 1978 .
Produced alongside the more rustic T-72 , it incorporated, like its predecessor, the latest developments in armor and armament from Soviet industry, and was assigned to elite units of the Soviet Army .
After the breakup of the USSR , its development was continued only in Ukraine — through a diesel version, the T-84 — on whose territory the original factory of the tank was located, in Kharkiv . Russia , preferring to equip itself with a modernized version of the T -72 , the T-90 , cheaper to produce and maintain, the design of which was carried out in the Urals . Nevertheless, at the end of the 2010s, Russia undertook a modernization of its T-80Bs to the T-80BVM 1 standard .
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informations
| T-80U | |
 T-80B during the Victory Day Parade in 2005 | |
| Production | |
|---|---|
| Production | 5404 copies, all versions combined |
| Main Features | |
| Crew | 3 (commander, driver and gunner) |
| Length | 7.01m |
| Lenght | 3.60m |
| Height | 2.20m |
| Mace in battle | T-80 : 42 tons T-80B : 42.5 tons |
| Shielding (thickness/inclination) | |
| Kind | Composite and reactive |
| Armament | |
| Main armament | 125mm gun 2A46M-1 T-80B (36 shells) |
| Secondary armament | Coaxial 7.62 mm PKT machine gun (1250 rounds) NSVT 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun (500 rounds) |
| Mobility | |
| Engine | T-80 : GTD-1000T 1,000 hp (736 kW) turboshaft engine T-80B : GTD-1000TF : 6TD-1 1,000 hp (736 kW) opposed-piston diesel engine |
| Transmission | T-80B 5-speed manual (4 on T-80U ) |
| Suspension | Torsion bars |
| Road speed | 70 km/h on road 48 km/h off- road |
| Power to weight | T-80B & T-80UD : 25.9 hp/tonne T-80U : 27.2 hp/tonne |
| Autonomy | 335 km (660 with drop tanks) |
Operators
Cyprus : 45: 27 T-80U and 18 T-80 UK
South Korea : 43 T-80U and 67 BMP-3 delivered between 1995 and 2006 in exchange for the cancellation of Russian debts to this country. In service with two battalions of the 3rd Brigade of the Republic of Korea Army
North Korea : A few copies acquired in the early 1990s
Egypt 14 T80UK + 20 T80U
Pakistan : 320 T-80OuD delivered by Ukraine between 1997 and 1999
Russia : 550 in active service and 3,000 in storage as of 2016
Yemen : 31 from Russia in 2000. 66 from Belarus
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