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"AGAVA" - "AGAVA-2" and its confusing history

- December 28, 2020

When covering Soviet sight technology there are always some interesting designs and approaches to solving an issue. It is a common fact that the Soviet Union in the 1980s-1990s was quite behind in thermal sight technology. Only in the 1990s, but to be specific in 1992, the Soviet Union now Russia started to field small batches of thermal sights on their tanks, primarily T-80Us and some of the early T-90 variants, which just recently entered service. Russia's journey through creating its own domestic thermal sight traces back to 1982. The 1980s were quite an important time for the 'Krasnogorsk Factory named after S.A Zverev', which is still to date an Optical Engineering and Optoelectronics factory. The factory is primarily known for making domestic Soviet cameras back in the day. However, that's not the only thing that the factory has produced back then. Close to the mid-1980s, the facility was contracted to develop new thermal sight technology for the Soviet Ministry...

GTD-1000 - GTD-1000TF - GTD-1250 Gas Turbine Engines

- December 05, 2020

The world's first mass-produced tank gas turbine engine GTD-1000T was created at the Klimov Plant in 1968 for the T-80 main battle tank developed By the special tank design Bureau of the Kirov plant (now JSC "Spetsmash"), which was adopted by the Soviet Army in 1976. Since 1980, a modification of the GTD‑1000TF for T-80B/BV tanks was produced, since 1986 a modification of the GTD-1250 for T-80U tanks. GTD-1250 Engines of the GTD-1250 family as part of the power plants of T-80 tanks are in service with the armies of Russia, Belarus, Cyprus, South Korea, Kazakhstan. Turbine engine GTD-1000T/GTD-1250, which have a large volume-weight capacity and a more favourable traction characteristic compared to diesel engines, provide T-80 tanks with interesting characteristics: - higher operational readiness - easy start-up at low temperatures (up to -40°C) - better cross-country ability on soils with a low load-bearing capacity - best noise and heat-masking qualities - increased ...

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T-80 rubber flaps - Part 3

- January 27, 2024

Over half a year ago, I promised to write an article about T-80 rubber flaps and their purpose, which would have completed the trifecta article collection: T-80 aerodynamic features and T-80 MBT engine air filtration and dust prevention systems . This article builds up on the T-80 aerodynamic features topic and will conclude this series. Unfortunately, I have come across zero primary sources, that directly mention the purpose of these rubber flaps, which makes it difficult to write an article with primary sources. There are 2 disputed arguments on this topic; one argument states that the flaps on the T-80s are meant to redirect airflow and reduce air contaminants like sand and dust from entering the engine. The other argument is that these flaps are used as additional protection to prematurely detonate HEAT warheads. I will discuss this topic by only talking about the presence of the flaps on T-80s. Firstly the rubber skirt, is present on the lower frontal plate of T-80s. I...

T-80 MBT engine air filtration and dust prevention systems - Part 2

This article does not specifically cover individual filtration units but is a collection of features across several T-80 engine variants. Since 1976, almost all T-80 variants came standard with gas turbine engines. Early T-80 variants utilized the GTD-1000T, the T-80B and its subsequent variants fielded the GTD-1000TF and the later production models of the T-80U used the GTD-1250. With each iteration, the HP (kW) increased to 1000 HP (745kW), 1100HP (820kW) and 1250HP (919kW). The T-80 uses a monoblock-style engine d eveloped in the 1970s by VNIITransmash "Предприятие п.я. А-7701" , which means the engine block is mounted together with the air filtration system and other vital components. The air filtration unit is made of several parts assembled into a monoblock. The air filtration unit consists of 2 cyclone batteries, 2 oil cooling radiators and 2 cooling ventilators. The 2 batteries contain cyclone filters. There are 14 cyclone filters arranged in a 2x7 pattern on each b...

T-80 aerodynamic features - Part 1

This article is the first part of a set of articles covering the engineering and methodology used to create the T-80s filtration system alongside aerodynamics to reduce airflow dust/sand contamination. The T-80 MBT has been fielded in many climate regions. Desert climates pose a variety of variables that directly impact dust presence in the engine air filtration system. Variables include wind speed and direction, vehicle speed, depth and soil composition, air intake system design, and contours of the hull and turret. Historical background: Long-term trials were conducted in the southern Kara-Kum desert. It was determined that during 1970-1983, the quantity of dust present in the engine filtration system increased due to climate changes and weaker upper soil layers. During the 1970s to 1980s, the Turkmen Canal underwent Soviet industrialization to build an irrigation canal and other facilities. This build-up of new infras...

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A new sight for the modernized T-90

- April 21, 2021

Back in 2018, a new programme was started. This programme's focus is to create domestic equipment for Russian armoured vehicles, specifically optics. This is so that the Russian army can stop depending on the french company "Thales" and their Catherine technology. T-72B3 received new internal components for the Sosna-U sight, phasing out any foreign components. As for the T-90M/T-90MS, something else was done. Previously, the T-90M/T-90MS employed the Sosna-U sight, which featured french components from Thales. However, the internals of the sight was not simply replaced. This time, a completely new domestic sight was created under the name PNM-T. The sight was reportedly made by the PJSC ANPP TEMP-AVIA in 2018 or 2019. The first appearance was in the Telekanal Zvezda show, during the episode about the Proryv-3 (T-90M). In this episode, a new plaque can be seen with the name of the sight. Its first public physical appearance, however, was at the Army-2019 event. The doo...

New T-72B-"3M" analysis

- January 26, 2023

New footage shows a new T-72B3 "M" vehicle fielding non-standard equipment. The vehicle features all the new integrations that were fielded by UVZ in the last several months. T-90M style front mudguards, additional ERA protection around the gun mantlet and commanders cupola, steel tubes used for mounting additional protection against loitering munitions and RPGs. Posts covering these changes: T-72B3M and T-90M changes , New T-72B3M modernization batch . The vehicle received additional ERA protection on the lower frontal plate and new ERA containers mounted along the entire side of the tank. Additionally, the vehicle is missing several standardized features that would be seen on other T-72B3M tanks. The standard Sosna-U multi-channel thermal sight has been replaced by the 1PN-96MT-02. This sight differs from the Sosna-U by not having its own laser rangefinder channel. Instead, the sight receives data from the main FCS block to perform ballistic calculat...

TMT-K mine trawl

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The TMT-K engineering tank minesweeper was designed by 'Stankomash' and is intended for reconnaissance, making a passage in anti-tank minefields and continuous demining of the terrain. A TMT-K can be mounted on a large variety of AFVs: T-72, T-80, T-90, BMR-3M armoured mine clearance vehicles and vehicles based on the BRM-3 chassis. This trawl consists of a roller array with pressure action and soil cutters, a device for trawling anti-side mines and an electromagnetic module. The trawl also includes electrical equipment, a pneumatic system, a pyro signal cassette and a single spare parts kit. The TMT-K mine trawl provides trawling capabilities against most anti-tank mines: anti-burr mines, anti-bottom mines with contact and non-contact magnetic fuses, anti-slide mines with non-contact seismic-optical fuses, as well as the destruction of wired control lines for mine explosions, land mines and triggering remote installation mines installed on the ground surface. The mine trawl pr...