T-64B 1983

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Specifications:

Crew:

3x man

Top speed:

60 km/h

Armament:

1x 125mm 2A46M cannon; 1x 7.62mm PKT machine gun; 1x 12.7mm NSVT machine gun.

Brick count:

1,375

Cost:

8,408u

How to use:

12.7mm machine gun can be used from commander seat; Switch APFSDS (10x ballistic gun) to HEAT (7x gun) - X; Fire extinguish system - J; Throw smoke grenades - Num 3-4; Night vision lights (cosmetic) - Q; Convoy lights - I; Frontal light - L;

History of T-64B:

The T-64 is a Soviet second-generation main battle tank introduced in the early 1960s. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62: the T-64 served tank divisions, while the T-62 supported infantry in motorized rifle divisions. It introduced a number of advanced features including composite armor, 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. In spite of being armed and armored like a heavy tank, the T-64 weighed only 38 tonnes (42 short tons; 37 long tons).

These features made the T-64 expensive to build, significantly higher than previous generations of Soviet tanks. This was especially true of the power pack, which was time-consuming to build and cost twice as much as more conventional designs. Several proposals were made to improve the T-64 with new engines, but chief designer Alexander Morozov's political power in Moscow kept the design in production in spite of any concerns about price. This led to the T-72 being designed as an emergency design, only to be produced in the case of a war, but its 40% lower price led to it entering production in spite of Morozov's objections.

T-64B variant was designed in 1976 as evolution from T-64A variant. It got new automatic FCS (which was quite impressive at the time), new turret with improved armor and new cannon with ability to use ATGM.

In 1982, after Soviet Union recieved M111 "Hetz" 105mm APFSDS, they found out that it was specially designed to go through 68* degrees sloped 3-layers combined armor (like T-64A/B/T-72/A had). So in 1983-1984 all those tanks was modified by "OKR Otrazhenie" program - additional 30mm hardened steel plate on front, which made it invulrnable to M111. After that all new manufactured tanks recieved frontal plate with 5 layers of combined armor.