T-72AMT: The new face.
Specialists of the Kyiv Armored Plant, commissioned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have developed a new project for the modernization of the T-72 tank. At the expense of its working capital, the company completed work on bringing the T-72A tank to the T-72AMT type.
The new form of the tank, among other things, involves installing night vision devices with third-generation electron-optic converters, a 1K13 night gun, with the possibility of firing a ATGM Combat , an engine V-84-1 instead of V-46, a dynamic tank protection complex T-72UA, radio stations Aselsan, navigation system SN-3003 "Basalt"; Drive wheels with caterpillars and traks as the T-80.
The Kiev armored vehicle traditionally specialized in the repair of the T-72, and at the plant were developed at least fifteen versions of the modernization, which were "ground" for a foreign customer. After all, before the fighting in the east of Ukraine all T-72s were withdrawn from the Armed Forces and were extensively exported actively. The war has returned T-72 to Ukrainian tankers. And now in the Armed Forces there is an urgent need for modernization of T-72A tanks, which during their operation in the army, including during the execution of the antiterrorist operation on the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, have confirmed their reliability and combat capability.
