50% More Powerful Than Abrams: T-80 Tanks Become Faster Thanks to GTD-1250 Engines

Russian T-80 main battle tanks will improve their driving performance after being equipped with a GTD-1250 gas turbine engine with 1250 hp. This was pointed out by military expert Evgeny Damantsev.

Large-scale production of GTD-1250 engines was resumed at the Kadvy enterprise last winter. The production of power units began against the background of the growing rate of modernization of T-80 tanks of various modifications removed from storage, bringing them to the T-80BVM version, which proved its effectiveness on the battlefield.

Russian enterprises today do not produce new T-80s, now the modernization and overhaul of models previously produced at the Omsk Transport Engineering Plant are underway. This combat vehicle was produced from 1979 to 1991, in total more than 10 thousand T-80 tanks of various modifications saw the light. The unsealing of tanks with their adaptation to the modern version began in 2016, but in small batches.

Characteristics of GTD-1250:

• Maximum power - 919 kW

• Maximum torque - 448 kgf*m

• Engine weight - 1050 kg

• Specific fuel consumption - 225 g/hp

• Oil consumption - no more than 0.2 l/hour

• Assigned resource - 1000 hours

• Time between overhauls - 500 hours

• Overall dimensions, LxHxW -1494, 888, 1042 mm

Earlier www1.ru reported that Russian tanks adopted the habits of artillery and began to work from closed combat positions.

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