T-80 Tank - Russia

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The T-80 is a main battle tank (MBT) that was designed in the former Soviet Union and also manufactured in Russia. The T-80 is based on the T-64, while incorporating features from the later T-72. The chief designer of the T-80 was Soviet engineer Nikolay Popov. When it entered service in 1976, it was the second MBT in the world to be equipped with a gas turbine engine, after the Swedish Strv 103, and the first to use it as a primary propulsion engine. The T-80U was last produced in 2001 in a factory in Omsk, Russia.