Tank troopers would joke that the designers had finally caught up with their unofficial hymn, Three Tankers-the song had been written to commemorate the crewmen fighting in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, in 3-man BT-5 tanks in 1939.
Kartsev's Nizhny Tagil bureau, by the models T-54A, T-54B, T-55, and T-55A).Ī revolutionary feature of the T-64 is the incorporation of an automatic loader for its 125-mm gun, allowing one crew member's position to be omitted and helping to keep the size and weight of the tank down. Morozov, the designer of the T-54 (which, in the meantime, would be incrementally improved by Leonid N. The T-64 was conceived at the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau, as the next-generation main battle tank by Alexander A. 4.3.4 Concerns of 3-man & 4-man maintenance.The newest, vastly upgraded and improved model of this 50-year-old design, the T-64BM Bulat, has increased in weight to 45 tonnes and is seeing active service in the field. 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.Īt present the T-64 is in use in very few nations or regions, but is currently undergoing significant factory overhauls and modernization in Ukraine. 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 was especially true of the power pack, which was time-consuming to build and cost twice as much as more conventional designs. These features made the T-64 expensive to build, significantly more so than previous generations of Soviet tanks.
In spite of being armed and armored like a heavy tank, the T-64 weighed only 38 tonnes (42 short tons 37 long tons). 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. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62: the T-64 served in tank divisions, while the T-62 supported infantry in motorized rifle divisions.
The T-64 is a Soviet second-generation main battle tank introduced in the early 1960s.
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