People, don't be ridiculous, any anti-tank rocket will destroy every tank, east and west. jvalin, NLOW, cornet, these are shells that are made to destroy a tank, they have incredible penetration, every tank is destroyable with that weapon.
12:42 we are Greeks in Cyprus , but T80s are serving in Cyprus army national guard! 90 pieces could very easily handle 400 turkish M48a5. Even when 40 much newer Leopard2a4 added in Turkish arsenal in north Cyprus, our T80s could perform very well.
@@askme5805 yeah...imagine those 400 junks against apilas, spike NLOS and ARHRITAS STEALTH DRONE! Bayraktars will be useless against IRON DOME and SPYDER long range a/a missile system
Помню по своей службе, как эти танки Т 80 садились на брюхо в глубоком снегу, гусеницы беспомощно крутились на месте.....а мы подьехали на БМП и просим брость трос, давай, поможем. Танкисты рассердились, говорят, пошли нх, а то как ..бнем из пушки.. Карелия, 1981 год. .Другой случай : оставили на ночь в грязи , а те взяли и вмёрзли в лед. Мучались мучались бедняшки и никак не могли оторваться. Стоят примерзшие к земле. Другой танк подъехал, хотел вытащить на троссе, тот порвался....Зампотех и говорит : ану их нх, весна придет, оттают, сами выедут...
@@tomwelshshore exactly, too many people calling it bad because of its autoloader and too many people calling it good because of its relikt ERA. It’s just an upgrade to an obselete tank to help it stay relevant
@@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here T 80B is very outdate. I dunno why Russian MoD don't choose the T 80U for the modernization program. Instead, they make a stupid shit modernization kit without CITV and APS , and throw these tank to the battlefield that full of modern threats like ATGM and etc. They don't care about soldier's live, just make it as cheap as possible and we see the result.
@@mrmakhno3030 What result did you see, that russia gaining land? Land will make more soldiers. You live for yourself. They live for their descendants. Nature will favour them and give them unlimited resources.
Just imagine you’re on a convoy in the snow and a flock of T-80’s jump out at you as they ride up snow ramp and lay several heat shells on your convoy from the air
@@dewygreen4646 hit any tank with a javelin and it’s a goner, no matter if it’s Russian or NATO. No chance. No tank in the world has close to enough armor on the roof to stop a javelin. Russian armor technology has always been great, all their problems are on the logistical level which fuels bad tactics
@@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here So, if all their problems are on the logistical level which fuels bad tactics... that means they returned to the times of Chechnya 1995-96. Chechens didn't have Javelins at that time, yet the turrets were flying, too.
@@Insert-Retarded-Reply-Here It seems that for decades, ALWAYS there is something in the way of showing Russian tanks their splendor on the battlefields
And i was pretty sure the tank that had its turret flying is the Leopard-2. M1 Abrams also does. Must be something about the positioning of their loaders or something like
@@janko7245 What the BelgianFried told you, a freaking steering wheel and automatic transmission for starters and hopefully for the entire crew,air conditioning system. But that's not the end of it, this tank also needs a thermal imaging 360° observation device as well as Active Protection System (the Russians invented DROZD, 1st gen APS and the only T-80 tank that was equipped with it, got destroyed in Ukraine), now they have a new gen called ARENA APS, but it's not even in service. So yeah, in case ANYONE's wondering "what's there to upgrade?", there's some food for thought.
@@Ivan-pw3sn Have you seen any flying turrets from western tanks? Kornets were used by Iraq against Abrams and they only managed to disable 2 tanks. Hezbollah used them too many occasions against Israeli Merkavas. I've seen multiple hits against the Merkavas and the tanks were still moving and fighting. Stop being a Russian fanboy. 🤣
This Tan is intended for the Arctic Troops. This is a new compound for the protection of the borders of the Russian Arctic. This tank has a huge advantage over other tanks of the Russian Federation. It has a gas turbine unit, and in conditions of severe frosts, it does not need to spend almost an hour to warm up the engine. The gas turbine engine starts within a minute or two. In short this is an Arctic tank
And more. Russia does not build them anew, it takes them from warehouses where thousands of t80s are stored and makes them from T-80BV M. In fact, getting a new tank is much cheaper than building new ones
Who forgot? Maybe other countries which not paid for it, but Russia paid last payments for lend-lease else in 2011. It was heavy for country debt about which everyone talked each year. Actually last payments was planned up to 2030, but Putin with some miracle paid everything much yearly.
Much is made about Lend Lease when really it was but a trickle until after Stalingrad. And by then, the tide of the war had turned decisively against the Wehrmacht. Without Lend Lease, the USSR would have won the war in 47-48, instead of 45. But it would have won. What was more decisive, was Allied Intelligence that, along with the Soviet informers within the Japanese Prime Minister's office, that informed the Stavka the Japanese would not attack in 1941. The redeployment of some 40 divisions from the Far East, plus the return of Zhukov, was the deciding factor in throwing the Germans back from the gates of Moscow. There is an obsession whenever the Second World War comes up about how important the Allied second front in France, strategic bombing of the Ruhr, and the importance of Lend Lease to Soviet victory. When in actual fact, most of the time, the Allies were instead tooling around in the deserts of North Africa to protect British colonial conquests, and only opened a second front after the Tehran conference when Stalin could speak to Roosevelt directly without British interference. What should be absolutely clear, is that WW2 for the Allies, was more about delaying Allied entry as long as possible to bleed the Soviets white, protecting British imperial conquests, than any commitment to destroying fascism. British bankers as late as 1943 were still financing German industries.
Those were mostly T-72s without ERA that were criminally misused. It was never the fault of the tank. Some of them got hit by RPGs up to 30 times before they even "exploded".
And look what happened to the city of Grozny. ...Leveled to the fvcking ground lol. ...Next time Grozny gets out of line these T80's will roll through with Terminator support and SU34 cover.
@@SportZFan4L1fe Thats all the Russian military is good for.Terrorizing people who can't shoot back.Every time they run into an actual enemy force, they get routed.
I wonder if burying the tank in snow actually insulated it from the coldest part of the night. Like an igloo. Especially since it looks like it was running just before being covered.
The M1A1 may not have been able to jump off a ramp like the T-80 could. But what it could do unlike the T-80, is protect its crew from dying after taking catastrophic damage.
one of the weirdest fact is this modernized tank came decades after both M1A1 and M1A2, and it STILL doesn't have the CITV, which was equipped on M1A2 from 1992. I mean wtf are these Russian thinking. Also, it doesn't have any APS. Even the simple thing like laser warning receiver. And they throw a tank which commander is almost blind at night, and without active protection to a battlefield facing with Javelin, NLAW, Stugna, Panzerfaust,....lol.
@Joshua Nellis armata goes 59 mph on good roads. Anything above 50 kph is hard to achieve off-road. These fantasy numbers of 90kph by the moskali and ami subhumans are just propaganda purposes. You rarely go over 40 kph without the engine roaring like a dragon
aaaah yes, the always wide eyed over enthusiastic ALEXANDER EGOROV, a child trapped inside a Man's body trapped inside a Man inside a Man inside a Man inside a Man, only on COMBAT APPROVED!! ooooh yeah!!!
@@mr.waffentrager4400 There was a better tank, superior in every way to T-80 and T-90, it was called Object 187. A very unique piece of technology, with only six prototypes made before the break up of the Soviet Union, where the sixth prototype was what should have been a serial production model. For what it's worth, the Russians did implement the turret from Object 187, onto all their T-90 tanks, replacing all their cast turrets with Object 187 welded turret.
@@mr.waffentrager4400 I'm aware of Object 292 (the T-80 with a 152mm gun you're referring to), as well as T-14 ARMATA's predecessors, such as the old one that started it all, the T-74 tank (also known as Izdelie 450), then came Object 299, Object 477A, not to mention the T-95 which I like to call a "T-14 in disguise". But the Object 187 was the most mature of conventional tank projects, ready for production and the only reason why it never serially materialized, is because of its price. Sad, but like I said, at least the new T-90M "Breakthrough 3" got the turret from Object 187 and that in itself is a great step towards its modernization. Still, the hull is why I'm bickering about the T-90M not being all there. Kind regards.
Ok, so, what would be the easiest way to make the enemy not see the tank? So, let's not do that - let's do something that comptely prevents the use of the tank and that requires a ton of work...
@@mackjsm7105 Absolutely wrecked. The armata seems to be pretty irrelevant since only a little more than a dozen have been produced and the economic slide Russia has been going through has put the coffin nail in that project. 90% of the Russian armor in Ukraine right now can be killed with an AT4 or RPG. The rest get NLAWs and Javelins.
I did see one of these tanks fly the other day, or rather its turret. Who used the turbine first in tanks? Are they still making the t-80? This vid is two years old I think, which is close to the start of Russia invading Ukraine . Is Russia still producing new t-80 or just bringing the old stored ones back to life without the optics. I read t-90 using all modern optics so none left for older tanks. Love this channel!
The T-80 is now produced, so as the T-72s and T-90s. Yes there are old tanks but they work good. Unless not taken care of it and jsut keeping it in one place. Why are they flying? Because the crew isnt trained good enough so as they take wrong moves and panic.
The problem with our Western Arms manufacturers is we manufacture profit. We don’t manufacture weapons that work against a peer or near-peer adversary. Most of the wars/invasions fought have been against states with old or export technology weapons with poorly trained soldiers. The Russkis have this ability to offer superb bang per buck. Here they’ve taken a 40/50 year old tank and created the best arctic tank. We all know that just as our tanks (M1 Abrams, Challenger 2, Leopard 2) failed in the desert (before modification) when used in the Arctic, they will fail again. The Russkis test their weapons across all extremes of temperature because that’s just normal weather encountered across all their regions. Now, all of our western countries will have been watching this and said “oh yeah, we need to do that!” If you notice, these films are released 3 or 4 years after they were originally filmed. Just when we catch up, i.e. using double plasma shots, the Russkis will have learned how to deal with triple shots. A case in point is the F35, which very quietly was announced to be toast now. It’s to be replaced by a single low cost light fighter. So after pretending this 5th generation F35 was the most amazing plane ever, after wasting nearly $2 trillion of US tax payers money (most of which obviously ended up in already very rich men’s pockets) they’re now asking the tax payer for even more money! To build what? Well, the head of procurement for the US military called it a 4+ or -5 generation. By the time this has been built, designed, tested and approved for operations, Russia and China will have zoomed much further ahead. Our real problem, is not just the corruption, but the arrogance of our leaders, who because they have beaten weak states and have never had to deal with technologically advanced adversaries, still think we’re the best. So what’s the solution? There are two simple ones: 1) Stop causing chaos around the world, telling lies, and learn to share and co-operate so everyone benefits from trade and technological advances or 2) We as the taxpayers in our countries need to realise that we need to demand true accountability from the people we entrust with our economic, cultural and social well being. If they don’t measure let’s kick them out of power. This option 2 is fantasy because as we’ve seen with the invisible, shadow puppet Mr. B, you don’t succeed in US politics unless you do what you’re told. In the UK, France and Germany, we are more democratic and nowhere as near as greedy. So there is hope for us, but the US political system is rotten to the core. Bernie went awol not once but twice. He has no integrity. AOC is just a bullshitter ready to spout anything for self-promotion. As for Mr. B, well everyone (the voters) seems to have dementia in the US. They seem to have forgotten the litany of disasters he and his boss Mr. O, presided over, Afghanistan, Iraq for starters and Libbbyarr, Siriyar and who can forget the revival of Nz fscts in Youcrane? The only person who has any real decency in the whole rotten business (the one righteous man happens to be a woman from Hula hula land) and will it be enough for the wrath of God to spare the US?
Nah. T-80 is perfectly suited for the arctic, because it has a Gas turbine, thats just how this thing works. Of course Leopard 2 and Challenger 2 would struggle, so would T-72 and T-90. Thats no rugged russian space Magic, thats an advantage of a gas turbine compared to a diesel engine and everyone knows about it. Not to mention that this particular tank is apart from this feature noway near top-notch - look at the commanders position... Russian defense Industry is much more state controlled than the western one but it still needs Profit - there is just another way of accumulating this profit. Russian industry needs exports to keep itself alife, as its goods are bought by the russian army and an couple of other states like csto members and uzbekistan for prices which are not able to finance the whole industry. With russia losing parts of its share of global arms market and an ever growing China, positioning itself as an concurrent, that'll be an issue. Needless to say how troublesome the modernization of russian armed forces has become: no T-14, no MiG-35, no new aircraft carrier, no new super frigates nor Lider class destroyer, while numbers of yearly produced combat aircraft are low again just like defense spending. That does not mean that Russia is not doing many things better than the west, it certainly does. But it faces its own struggles and is not perfect either. Speaking about fighter jets... it wasn't russia who catched up with the US in the stealth fighter business the first place, it was China. The SU-57 is a bloody mess. No zooming ahead, noway.
What a nut job. The Russians are doing with the T-80 the exact same thing the US did with the M-1 Abrams, adapting it to the operating conditions it would be expected to fight in. If the US had to fight an arctic fight, it would have to adapt its weapons. So what? Nobody can design a weapons system that can be 100 optional everywhere without adaptation. Your information is so out of whack. The F-35 wasn't quietly announced to be toast. It won't be replaced by a single low-cost fighter. Stop telling lies Russian bot. The F-35 was just adopted by Finland and Canada. And other countries such as Japan are increasing their order numbers. The USAF is swinging between buying more upgraded F-16s and buying a 4.5 generation fighter of a new design that could replace or augment the F-16 as the bulk of the fighter fleet at an affordable price. The USAF has talked about replacing the F-22 with a 6th generation fighter, and they have also deferred buying new F-35s, to focus on buying F-15EXs and waiting for new block F-35s. Nobody in the USAF is talking about dumping the F-35, which unlike so many Russian systems is finding foreign buyers and not getting its operators killed in record numbers against a peer enemy military (That would be Ukraine) Also, out of curiosity, what peer state militaries have the Russians fought against since the end of World War 2? Most of their invasions (Hungry, Chezcoslovakia, Afghanistan, Chechnia, Georgia, and Ukraine 2014) have been against enemies with soviet export models who are poorly trained. The only first-class military Russia has fought is Ukraine of 2022, and look where that has gotten Russia and its T-80s and T-90s.
30:30 that is one of the most inaccurate tank i have seen. The dispersion between all three shots was so great. I don't think you are ever gonna hit a enemy tank with this performance.
A lot of recent media coverage seems to be pointing fingers at T-72s, T-80s, and T-90s, calling them failures that can’t stay alive on the modern battlefield. I think it’s incredibly biased and misses a lot of relevant information. The vehicles themselves can only perform as well as the doctrine allows, and exceptionally poor Russian doctrine combined with an extremely significant amount of military funding and supplies sent to Ukraine are painting these vehicles in a poorer light than they deserve We lost quite a few M1A1s and M1A2s during counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East to RPG-7s and RPG-28s because we used the tanks in an environment they weren’t suited to against an enemy with a serious number of handheld anti-tank weapons. The Russians are now experiencing the same, just taken up to 11. Still, T-72B3s are being seen having only been taken out after up to a dozen hits in order to actually pierce their Kontakt-5 ERA. Similarly, with so many cell phones in the conflict, each and every destroyed tank is being shared online, blowing the losses out of proportion and making it seem as if large portions of the Russian tank fleet have been destroyed Additionally, they’re not facing a disposable military anymore. The Ukrainians are being given huge stocks of the most modern western ATGMs available. I can promise that any tank without extensive APS coverage and ERA wouldn’t be able to survive a whole platoon armed with NLAWS and Javelins, which are definitely the main threat. The Ukrainians, in comparison to their adversaries, actually have lost most of their tanks. The only vehicles they have that seem to be holding their own are, guess what, T-80s and the T-84, a local variant I guess in short, don’t judge these vehicles based on the current conflict. Or if you do, take a look at all the factors involved. Much like with the initial deployment and heavy losses the T-80 suffered in Grozny, poor tactics and situational awareness of the general staff should carry most of the blame Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Even Ukriane uses T80 it just depends on how skilled the crew men are who drive it. The leo2a6 and abrams have been destroyed by NLAWs and Javilins on the battlefield.
@@Mantiscular12 So far the Leopard II has only suffered losses in Turkish hands against RPG-7s and 29s. Granted, those were older A4s and the Turks committed a serious number of sins in employing them. As for Abrams, plenty have been knocked out, but again by RPGs. Not disagreeing with your overall point on crews, just saying that the NLAW and Javelin has really only started seeing major combat usage in this conflict I myself actually quite like the T-80 after all. I think it has some very good qualities with only a small number of deficiencies
