3D Model - T-80UM-1 MBT

Type Main battle tank
Place of origin Soviet Union

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The T-80UM-1 Bars (“Snow Leopard” in Russian) starts roughly where the T-80U left off. The T-80U was a highly advanced MBT for its time (the 1980s) that nonetheless had one major flaw – its cost, which would become ever more significant with the decline of the Soviet Union. Especially the turbine engine was very complex and therefore pricey. Its advantage was, however, that it could run well in cold weather, which is why Russia kept using the T-80 series in its arctic regions.

The T-80 series was also produced in Ukraine where the expensive turbine engine was replaced by a diesel. For Russia, however, this wasn’t really an option due to the abovementioned low temperature properties. Instead, the T-80U received a more powerful turbine engine (GTD-1250) in the 1980s. Further T-80U development went and the T-80UM-1 was one of them. A small intermission regarding its name – some sources use different variants of its designation (T-80UM1 or T-80U-M1)

Aside from the Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg) Kirov plant, the T-80U was also mass-produced in Omsk by the Omsktransmash plant. It was there the Bars was developed and built with the prototype being shown to public during the VTTV-97 expo also taking place in Omsk in 1997. It’s worth noting that this expo was the same one where the Black Eagle prototype originally appeared.

The Black Eagle overshadowed the T-80UM-1 Bars but the latter was a far more practical and cheaper to produce vehicle. According to some sources, the T-80UM-1 was not only undergoing military trials at that point, but was also almost ready for mass-production.

The main idea behind the T-80UM-1 project was to improve the protection of the crew and ammo stowage based on the Chechnya War experience, specifically the 1994 Battle of Grozny in which the T-80 series tanks proved very vulnerable in urban combat. The most visible Bars upgrade was therefore the addition of the Arena hard-kill APS as well as an upgraded ERA kit that was supposed to protect the vehicle against RPG attacks. In addition to that, the tank received the Shtora-1 soft-kill APS as well as an improved fire extinguisher system and NBC kit. It was estimated at that time that the protection levels with all these changes would be three times higher than those of an earlier T-80U.