Well I have an issue I believe, I've sorted out, maybe. It concerns the Russian
T-80 Series. One will be an "
ADD" the other a "
CHANGE" Of the "START" as it's at least a year early. The issue is that the Russian
T-80B/BV/U tanks received an upgrade. As the
T-80BV is a real tank and is already in the game, I purpose that the upgraded tank be entered as the
T-80BV1.
NOW THE ABOVE WILL BE LIMITED TO DATE CHANGES FOR THE FOLLOWING 3 TANKS AFTER DEEPER RESEARCH AND RE-READING THE ARMY REC. REFS. (THE WORDING WAS A LITTLE CONFUSING AT FIRST.)
CHANGE/RUSSIA/T-80B/UNIT 621/END DATE 12/1992 VICE 12/1985//
All
T-80B tanks in service were upgraded to the
T-80BV until production ceased on that tank in 1992. I
cannot find any reference to the existence of the
T-80B1/UNITS 622 & 676 as entered in the game of which I believe are redundant to the
T-80B.
DELETE/RUSSIA/T-80B1/UNITS 622 & 676/CANNOT VERIFY THEY EXIST//
As noted above and as indicated by the refs. shown and others in a deeper web search.
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/t80b.htm
CHANGE/RUSSIA/T-80BV/UNIT 039/END DATE 12/2025 VICE 12/1992//
I can't seem to find anything to say these tanks are no longer in service. I fully understand a great many of them are in storage, but again the refs provided for this tank and others seem to indicate many are still operational and they are the platform from which the
T-80BVM are derived from. View "
Variants" section of ref. 1. Ref. 2 shows Russia still using them at bottom of ref. "
Users" section.
http://www.military-today.com/tanks/t80b.htm
https://www.armyrecognition.com/russ..._13007173.html
CHANGE/RUSSIA/T-80BVM/UNIT 046/START DATE 10/2018 VICE 06/2017//
Date based on following from ref. 1 "Russia’s T-80BV main battle tank has been upgraded to T-80BVM standard to feature the capability of firing depleted uranium shells, the Defense Ministry said in the bulletin ‘
The Russian Army in Comparison’ published on 20 December." Also note
last para from ref. 1 which addresses some of what I submitted above.
Ref. 2 production begins in
March 2018.
Ref. 3
Dated 02 July 2018, identifies the first units to equipped with the
T-80BVM.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/dece...um_shells.html
https://www.armyrecognition.com/weap..._t-80_mbt.html
https://www.armyrecognition.com/july...he_arctic.html
Others on the T-80...
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/USSR/T-80.php
http://id3486.securedata.net/fprado/armorsite/T-80U.htm
(For the above see production chart on first page.)
Don't ask these things just have a way of finding me!!
Regards,
Pat
