It introduced advanced features including composite armour, a compact engine and transmission, and a smoothbore 125-mm gun equipped with an autoloader to allow the crew to be reduced to three so the tank could be smaller and lighter.

The T-64BV features several changes over its predecessor. It replaces the BDD armour with new, and improved, ERA armour. In game this allows the tank to treat its side armour as 16 against Heat versus BDD side armour of 13.

The T-64 was a cold war Main Battle Tank, the most sophisticated ever built at that stage in USSR, but which proved too delicate and complex and was limited in production and active units.

Oct 6, 2023 · It’s worth asking how long it might take for Ukraine to run out of its most important tanks, the diesel-powered T-64BVs: recent upgrades of tanks that the Malyshev Factory in Kharkiv, in...

Dec 15, 2014 · The T-64BV is a modernized version of the T-64B main battle tank with an armor upgrade package. The T-64B version was adopted in service in 1976. The T-64BV featured enhanced anti-radiation protection and add-on explosive reactive armor.

Feb 13, 2022 · Ukraine’s Kharkiv Armored Plant has announced that it is testing its latest modernization of the T-64BV main battle tank. The tank has been equipped with third-generation surveillance and sighting units, rubber shields, and anti-accumulation sternward bar armor.

From 1985 the T-64B was fitted with stronger glacis armor; older tanks were upgraded with a 16-mm armor plate. Tanks, equipped with the 1,000 hp 6DT engine are known as T-64BM - T-64BV – Features "Kontakt-1" reactive armor and "Tucha" 81 …

Nov 22, 2023 · Ukraine’s military television has released a report on the T-64BV 1K command tank, a 2022 modernization. This is the first mention of this type of vehicle in open sources since the full-scale invasion of russia.

Nov 20, 2023 · The 1K Mod. 2022 has an 840-horsepower diesel engine instead of the 700-horsepower engine that propels most T-64s, but it seems other T-64BV variants also have the more powerful engine.

Feb 14, 2025 · The T-64BV Model 2022 is another small upgrade to the previous T-64BV Model 2017 Main Battle Tank that, as its name suggests, appeared more or less in 2022. The main improvements include two things – a new machinegun mount for the Laska K-2 machine gun (possibly based on a reverse-engineered Soviet “Utes” machinegun) and enhanced rear ...