Model tank T-80B Soviet battle tank 1985 - Trumpeter

The T-80 tank is a development of the T-64, on which for the first time in the USSR was adopted a propulsion by gas turbine. The T-80 was developed at the end of the 1970s, and began to be deployed on a massive scale from 1983. Produced alongside the more rustic T-72, it incorporated, like its predecessor, the latest developments in armor and armor. armament of Soviet industry, and was assigned to elite units of the Soviet army. After the disintegration of the USSR, its development was continued only in Ukraine through the T-84, on whose territory the original tank factory in Kharkov was located. Russia, preferring to equip itself with a derivative of the T-72, the T-90, less expensive to produce and maintain, the design of which was carried out in the Urals.