The main combat tank T-80. The horror of NATO headquarters

The creators of this main combat tank managed to take a truly revolutionary step in world tank building. The T-80, adopted by the Soviet Army in 1976, became the world"s first serial tank with a gas turbine engine, making it amazingly maneuverable and fast (so, during one of the exercises of the Soviet T-80 group, the T-80 swept along the Autoban near Berlin , overtaking tourist buses) Due to the design of this tank, in the case of outstanding combat characteristics, in the case of reflecting the aggression of the NATO Bloc against the Warsaw Treaty countries, the Soviet tank divisions, according to some estimates, could already reach the coast of the Atlantic on the fifth day of the response and rapidly abandoned the La-Channel ...

This fundamental book is the most detailed study telling about the history of creation, design, modifications (including the latest T-80BVM) and many years of operation T-80. The publication is illustrated by a large number of drawings and photographs, as well as color schemes and lateral projections of the famous tank, which are in service with tank troops of Russia