GE Fabbri
T-80 Tank
Scale model specifications
- Car brand
- Кировский завод
- Model maker
- GE Fabbri
- Scale
- 1/72
- Model release year
- 2011
- Catalogue number
- Русские танки №3
- Production run
- 67000
- Approximate purchase price, USD
- 6.00 USD
- Currently in the collection
- Yes
Prototype: Танки Т-серии
Model categories: Russian Tanks
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The car’s story
The T-80 has composite shell-resistant armour and became the world’s first tank with a gas-turbine engine. It entered service on 6 August 1976. Its pre-production designation was Object 219. The first production vehicles, developed by SKB-2 from the T-64, were built at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad.
Engine: GTD-1000TF, rated at 1,100 PS: a three-shaft layout with two mechanically independent turbo-compressors and a free power turbine.
Crew: 3; combat weight: 42.5 tonnes. Maximum speed: 70 km/h; range: 600 km.
Main armament: A 125 mm 2A46M-1 gun; a 7.62 mm PKT machine gun; a 12.7 mm NSVT anti-aircraft machine gun; eight 81 mm smoke-grenade launchers.
Ammunition: 38 gun rounds; 300 rounds of 12.7 mm; 1,250 rounds of 7.62 mm.
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My model photos
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