Ukrainian army sets records: already armed with 10 modified tanks
The Ukrainian defense department, it seems, decided to go on a kind of record. Currently, Ukraine is the leader in the number of modifications of the main tankswrites in his article on the site Messenger of Mordovia expert Dmitry Lemeshko.
“If you try to calculate the models and modifications, you get the following picture: T-64А, T-64B, T-64Б1, T-64БВ, BM" Bulat ", T-64B1М, T-64БМ1М, T-CHNUMXCH, CH-TN, X-NNXX, T-72B72M, T-72BM1M, T-XNUMXBCH, T-XNUMXBXNUMXМ , T-XNUMXUAXNUMX, ”notes the author.
T-64BV and BM "Bulat"
BM "Bulat"
If you take the fighting vehicles of Kharkov origin, then some modifications have quite significant differences in the internal stuffing, which can lead to certain problems in maintenance and operation.
“The same picture with machines manufactured in Nizhny Tagil,” writes Lemeshko. “How many Ukrainian experts cursed them, they called them flawed, suitable only for Africa.” But life turned so that the "bad" tanks were in service with the Ukrainian army.
At a recent event, held with the participation of Poroshenko, were demonstrated T-72AB seventeenth armored plant (Lviv).
T-64BV
T-72AB
And absolutely exotic T-72UA1 machines of the Ethiopian contract - a set of built-in dynamic protection "Knife" is mounted on the tower, and on the case elements of the same "Knife" are placed in boxes of the old "Contact-1" protection. Another distinctive feature of the tank is the 5TDFMA-1 engine with a capacity of 1050 l. with.
T-72UA1
“Sights and observation devices on this modification remained the same, this is evidenced by the presence of an infrared illuminator L-4, which in the so-called“ active mode ”ensures the operation of the night channel of the 1K13-49 guidance device“ Neman ”,” the author notes.
It is quite possible that soon the tank fleet of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will become even more “multifaceted", since, according to some sources, it is expected that the BM "Oplot" tank will enter the army.
“If you try to calculate the models and modifications, you get the following picture: T-64А, T-64B, T-64Б1, T-64БВ, BM" Bulat ", T-64B1М, T-64БМ1М, T-CHNUMXCH, CH-TN, X-NNXX, T-72B72M, T-72BM1M, T-XNUMXBCH, T-XNUMXBXNUMXМ , T-XNUMXUAXNUMX, ”notes the author.
If you take the fighting vehicles of Kharkov origin, then some modifications have quite significant differences in the internal stuffing, which can lead to certain problems in maintenance and operation.
“The same picture with machines manufactured in Nizhny Tagil,” writes Lemeshko. “How many Ukrainian experts cursed them, they called them flawed, suitable only for Africa.” But life turned so that the "bad" tanks were in service with the Ukrainian army.
At a recent event, held with the participation of Poroshenko, were demonstrated T-72AB seventeenth armored plant (Lviv).
And absolutely exotic T-72UA1 machines of the Ethiopian contract - a set of built-in dynamic protection "Knife" is mounted on the tower, and on the case elements of the same "Knife" are placed in boxes of the old "Contact-1" protection. Another distinctive feature of the tank is the 5TDFMA-1 engine with a capacity of 1050 l. with.
“Sights and observation devices on this modification remained the same, this is evidenced by the presence of an infrared illuminator L-4, which in the so-called“ active mode ”ensures the operation of the night channel of the 1K13-49 guidance device“ Neman ”,” the author notes.
It is quite possible that soon the tank fleet of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will become even more “multifaceted", since, according to some sources, it is expected that the BM "Oplot" tank will enter the army.
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