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Polar team effort to upgrade T-80

In the Russian part of the, stationed in the Far North, We began to enter the tanks T-80BVM, re to be completed before year-end, break the news.

Полярные бригады усилят модернизированными Т-80

T 80BVM selected for equipping due to gas turbine engines (GTD), which are easier to start in extreme cold. At temperatures below 40 degrees of operational readiness of machines is achieved in minutes.

The army T-80 received the nickname of "reactive" when the characteristic sound start, reminiscent of the work of an aircraft engine.

Tanks taken into service in 1970, but come to the Arctic Machine, the last major upgrade to version T-80BVM. According to the newspaper, in total it is planned to upgrade more than a hundred tanks from those, that are stored.

In addition to new alternator and starter machines get a modern fire control system "Sosna-U" with a thermal imager, laser range finder and automatic target tracking, weapon systems "Reflex" tanks.

Modernization is held at the facilities of "Omsktransmash" enterprise.

According to the chief of the Main Armored Defense Sergei Maeva management, modernized machine for his fighting qualities are not inferior to the T-90, and even surpass the speed.

He said another important factor: T-80 is used as a light kerosene fuels, which at low temperatures is not converted into paraffin, Unlike diesel.

All the warehouses of the military department today are about 3 thousands of T-80, not undergone modernization. The diesel version of the tank at one time manufactured in Kharkov, just raised more than 10 thousand units.

                          
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