Sunday 20 May 2018

T-64A's Birthday


"Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR

Decree

May 20th, 1968

On the installation of a more powerful set of armament into the T-64 tank.

The Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR decree that:

In agreement with the proposal of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and the Ministry of Defense Industry of installing into the T-64 tank a new 125 mm smoothbore D-81 gun with armour piercing subcaliber, HEAT, and HE-fragmentation shells, two-plane stabilizer 2E23, TPD-2 rangefinder sight, and a PKT coaxial machinegun with main characteristics in accordance to attachment #1.

The T-64 tank with new armament will be called T-64A."

2 comments:

  1. It started at least a decade of Soviet tank supremacy

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  2. Had it not been for the T-64's opposed-piston engine I suspect the T-64 might of gained a better reputation.

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