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T-84
Oplot main battle tank |
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The
Oplot main battle tank is the result of continued main battle tank development
by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau, which is Ukraine's
leading design authority for armoured fighting vehicles. The Oplot MBT
armament includes a 125mm gun, 7.62mm coaxial machine gun and 12.7mm
anti-aircraft machine gun. The tank crew is also equipped with sub-machine
guns, hand grenades and a signal pistol. The overall layout of the Oplot
main battle tank is conventional with the driver’s compartment
at the front, fighting compartment in the centre and power pack at the
rear. The driver is seated in the centre and has a single-piece hatch
cover that lifts and swings to the right. In front of this are three
forward-facing periscopes, the centre one of which can be replaced by
a night driving device. There is an escape hatch in the hull floor behind
the driver. The commander is seated on the right and the gunner on the
left both provided with single-piece roof hatches. The Oplot main battle
tank is based on a T-80UD, but has a number of advanced features which
distinguish it from the T-80UD.
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| Variants |
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| Technical
Data |
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| Armament |
The main
armament comprises a stabilised 125mm KBA3 smoothbore gun
fed by a carousel-type automatic loader and fitted with a
thermal sleeve and fume extractor (bore evacuator).The gun
is stabilised in both elevation and traverse. The main gun
has a quick-replacement barrel which can be changed under
field conditions without the need to remove the gun from the
tank. Turret traverse is electric while gun elevation is hydraulic.
The turret can be slewed through 180° in less than 5 seconds,
as the rate of traverse of the turret on the hull is up to
40 °/s. Manual gun and turret controls are provided for
emergency use. Types of ammunition that can be fired by the
gun include APFSDS (armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding
sabot), HEAT (high explosive anti-tank), HE-FRAG (high explosive
fragmentation) rounds as well as laser beam-riding guided
missiles. The missile can be fired while both the tank and
target are moving. The missile has a tandem warhead to defeat
targets fitted with explosive reactive armour as well as modern
spaced armour, optimised against HEAT attack.
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| Design
and protection |
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Oplot is fitted with an integrated vehicle protection system,
which includes passive armour, explosive reactive armour array
as well as a number of other tank protection devices that are
optimised against modern anti-tank weapons and make the tank
considerably less vulnerable to the full range of anti-tank
weapons. The armour protection of the Olot, which includes advanced
multi-layer armour and built-in third generation explosive reactive
armour package for the turret and chassis, provides to the Oplot
a high level of battlefield survivability. The main armour is
a laminated ‘sandwich’ of armoured plate and ceramics
which gives the tank superior ballistic protection against most
forms of attack greatly reducing penetration and behind armour
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| Propulsion |
The
Oplot is powered by a model 6TD-2 diesel engine developing 1,200
hp. The engine has been designed to give good performance in
all weather conditions, in particular at high temperatures.
Although a diesel engine, the 6TD-2 diesel will also run on
other fuels including petrol, kerosene, jet engine fuel or their
mixture in any proportion. To extend the operational range of
the Oplot, additional drum-type fuel tanks can be mounted at
the hull rear. These can be quickly jettisoned if necessary.
Each of these fuel drums holds 200 litres of fuel and is connected
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| Accessories |
The
Oplot MBT standard equipment also includes an auxiliary power
unit, provision for deep fording, satellite navigation support
system, self-entrenching device (dozer blade), electric bilge
pumps as well as internal and external communications equipment.
A crew compartment heater and power pack preheating are also
provided for operation at low temperatures. The Oplot is fitted
with an EA-8 under-armour diesel auxiliary power unit (APU)
developing 8 kW. This allows the vehicle to run key subsystems
without the main engine running (for instance, when the tank
is operating from a static fire position or when the vehicle
is on silent watch). The APU is mounted at the rear of the hull
on the right side.
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| Specifications |
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Armament |
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The Oplot MBT armament includes a 125mm gun,
7.62mm coaxial machine gun and 12.7mm anti-aircraft
machine gun. |
Country
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| Ukraine |
Designer
Company |
| Kharkiv
Morozov
Machine Building Design Bureau
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Accessories |
| Day/Night
vision system , NBC protection system, firing
computer system, |
Crew |
3 |
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Armor |
Protection
armour Kontakt-5
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Weight |
48,000
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Speed |
65-70
km/h
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Range |
450
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Dimensions
(Hull) |
Lenght:
7.70 m; Width: 3.77 m; Height: 2.76 m |
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