5-2015 CZOŁG T-64

The T-64 is a Soviet Main Battle Tank, the so-called 2nd generation from the Cold War and modern times. The first prototypes of this vehicle were built in 1962-1963, and the car entered service in 1964. Estimates of its serial production are divergent and you can find data in the range from about 7,800 to about 12,500 cars. The combat weight of the tank was up to 42.5 tons. The drive was provided by a single 700 HP 5DTF engine. The primary armament was the 125mm 2A46 smoothbore cannon, and the secondary armament consisted of a 7.62mm PKT machine gun and a 12.7mm NSW machine gun. The T-64 tank, although produced almost at the same time as the T-62 and designed parallel to the T-72, was a de facto independent structure and much more complicated and technologically advanced on many levels. First of all, as the first tank in the Soviet Army, it had only a crew of 3 and an automatic loading machine for the main weapons. He also had - probably the first in the world! - de facto composite armor. It also featured a very unusual engine with a relatively small capacity, but generating a large maximum power. Moreover, from 1969, a 125mm gun was mounted on the T-64, which also meant that it was armed with a much stronger weapon than the T-54 / T-55 and T-62. All these technological innovations and the high complexity of the entire structure meant that the T-64 was never exported, and its only user was the Soviet Army. It is worth adding that when it was introduced to the line in the mid-1960s, it de facto outclassed the then military vehicles of NATO countries.