Lviv armored plant has launched a serial modernization of the T-64
In Lviv, an armored plant launched the modernization of T-64 tanks. In the framework of the project, the machines are equipped with thermal imagers, digital radio stations, satellite navigation aids and new dynamic protection.
The message emphasizes that for the first time this modification was presented to the public in 2017. At the same time, according to Ukroboronprom, the tank proved to be in NATO tank competitions The Strong Europe Tank Challenge. Also last year, the tank was shown at the parade on the occasion of Independence Day of Ukraine.
The modernization includes the installation of a new aiming system for the gunner with a thermal imager, which, according to the company, “ensures the detection, recognition and destruction of the enemy by the fire of the 125-mm gun at any time and in any weather conditions”.
In addition to the gunner, other crew members should receive new night-vision devices with a third-generation electron-optical converter. It is claimed that the equipment has high resistance to light noise and is not sensitive to illumination even when using special interference in the infrared range.
New dynamic protection, NVD and communication systems
NVDs are installed on standard mounts and connected to the tank’s electrical network without any changes. This should significantly reduce the time and cost of integrating devices into combat vehicle systems.
Among other things, a promising dynamic defense is installed on the tank, which, according to the developers, “significantly enhances the level of defense of the combat vehicle and effectively counteracts all modern anti-tank weapons: cumulative and armor-piercing, as well as shock-cumulative ammunition of the“ strike core ”type.
The new modification of the T-64 is also equipped with a satellite navigation system from Orizon-Navigation Corporation. The complex allows the on-line exchange of encrypted data. According to the terms of reference, information from each machine should go to the command of all levels, from the platoon commander to the leadership of the entire combat operation.
The tanks are also equipped with the new Lybid K-2RB digital radio stations, which should provide communications that are protected from interference and interception at distances up to 70 kilometers.
Earlier, modernization of T-64 tanks of this type was carried out only by the Kharkov Armored Plant: according to Ukroboronprom data, the enterprise sent more than one and a half hundred vehicles of this type to the APU. It is assumed that due to the capacities of the Lviv armored plant, the process of re-equipping the Armed Forces of Ukraine with new modernized tanks will have to go faster.
Ukroboronprom emphasizes that the capacities of these two tank enterprises allow, with a stable order and funding from the customer, to modernize all T-64 available in the Armed Forces.
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