T-80-Familie

Eintrag

Relevanz für Konflikte

Dies ist der einzige Eintrag des Katalogs zu diesem System. Es ist für das unten genannte Modul relevant; der Force Atlas jedes Moduls zeigt, wie es dort eingesetzt wird.

Betreiber

Russia: The gas-turbine tank of the Russian ground forces, concentrated in the northern and Baltic-facing formations before 2022 and committed from the first days; the T-80BVM is the current standard, drawn from storage and modernised at Omsk. No holdings recorded. · Ukraine: Inherited T-80BV and the Kharkiv-built T-80UD, in service alongside the T-64 and T-72; captured Russian T-80BVM documented in Ukrainian use. No holdings recorded.

Rolle auf dem Gefechtsfeld

Main battle tank in Russian assault and fire-support roles across the front, and in Ukrainian service beside the T-64 and T-72; in the module's terms, the type through which the question of Russian tank production against attrition is most visible.

Stärken

A gas turbine giving high power and cold-weather starting, the reason it equipped the northern formations; the T-80BVM's reactive armour, sights and fire control bring it close to the T-90M; a large Soviet storage base that has sustained years of refurbishment.

Einschränkungen

A thirsty engine and a demanding supply chain; the same carousel autoloader vulnerability as the T-72, with the same documented catastrophic losses; and a production base at Omsk whose new-build capacity, as opposed to refurbishment of Soviet hulls, is disputed in specialist analysis and is not established. Fleet and production figures are not reproduced here.

Visuelle Erkennung

A low hull with six road wheels and a rounded turret carrying reactive armour blocks; the T-80BVM shows Relikt armour arrays on the turret front and sides and a distinctive rear exhaust arrangement from the turbine. Hard to separate from a T-72 except by the wheels and the turret rear.

Dokumentierter Einsatz im Konflikt

Documented in Russian use from February 2022 — including in the Kyiv and Kharkiv axes — and continuously since; open-source trackers record T-80 losses in excess of a thousand by the end of 2024, and captured T-80BVM in Ukrainian hands. Russian ministry announcements of T-80BVM deliveries continued through 2025–2026; specialist analysis disputes whether Omsk builds new hulls at all. Ukrainian T-80 use is documented with heavy losses in the 2022 defensive battles. Counts are not reproduced here.

Dokumentierte Verbände

• 4th Guards Tank Division "Kantemirovskaya" Dokumentiert · hohe Konfidenz