Russian main battle tanks with powerful gas turbine engines have traditionally been admired for their high-speed and maneuverable characteristics. The combat vehicles demonstrated their unique capabilities not only at the company's training ground, special screenings of international exhibitions, various tests, but also during real combat operations.
Currently, the Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering produces upgraded T-80BVM, which received 1,250-horsepower power units that allow you to accelerate along the highway up to 70 km/ h.
Compared to previous versions, they have a new dynamic protection "Relict", capable of neutralizing various anti-tank ammunition, including tandem warheads, and high-speed feathered armor-piercing sub-caliber projectiles.
The installed modern sights are in no way inferior to those available on the best foreign armored vehicles, and allow you to confidently destroy the enemy at any time of the day.
The TOS-1A heavy flamethrower system, another sample manufactured at Omsktransmash, according to foreign experts, is one of the most deadly weapons available in the arsenal of the Russian ground forces.
A video posted on social networks shows fragments of tests of both machines. "Two types of equipment were tested at the Omsktransmash test site at the same time - the TOS-1A and the T-80BVM tank," the caption to the video says.
In September and December of this year, the press service of the enterprise informed about the receipt of products with constructive changes in the troops. In particular, improved built-in dynamic protection, GPS navigation system/Glonass. The equipment received new caterpillar belts - with straight ground hooks. The launch equipment has also been improved, which has increased the convenience of the crew.
Alexey Moiseev
