Re: Russian T-80
Hi Marcello.
All these tanks were developed all over again by different design offices. In 1963 its updating T-64T with the engine from the helicopter has been created simultaneously with T-64.
There is a set of Russian sources of information in which is written, that certainly T-64 strongly differs from T-80 - but T-80 has been created on the basis of tank T-64.
Here small translation from foreign journal "International Defense Review" #6 1987 year.
"Serially made from the beginning of 80th years tank T-80 is the further development of tank T-64..."
Certainly the Russian tanks have all among themselves much in common - but are allocated among other two schools of a tank-building. Last years tanks T-80 were issued on the Omsk factory and in Kharkov, and tanks T-72, T-90 - on a factory in Nizhni Tagil.
Yours faithfully
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