First Chechen War
T-80B and T-80BV were never used in Afghanistan in the 1980s to keep the tank's characteristics a secret, but they were first used during the First Chechen War. This first real combat experience for T-80 was unsuccessful, as the tanks were used to capture cities, a task for which they were not very well suited due to the low depression and elevation of the 2A46-M1 gun on all Russian MBTs.
The biggest tank losses were suffered during the ill-fated assault in the Battle of Grozny, which began in December 1994. During three months of combat, Russia lost 18 of the 84 T-80 tanks used between the 133rd Tank Battalion and 3rd Tank Battalion.[35] The forces selected to capture Grozny were not prepared for such an operation, while the city was defended by, among others, former Soviet soldiers. Some T-80 tanks used in the assault lacked explosive reactive armor inserts.[36]
Several tank-to-tank battles were recorded. During the fighting in late December 1994 – early January 1995, Russian T-80 tanks destroyed at least six rebel tanks. On the other side, one T-80 was disabled by the hit of one 125 mm shell,[37] Another T-80 received three or four hits of tank shells but remained in service.[38][39] In August 1996, a T-80 destroyed one rebel tank.[37]
The inexperienced crews had little knowledge of the layout of the city, while the tanks were attacked by rocket-propelled grenade teams hidden in cellars and on top of high buildings. The anti-tank fire was directed at the least armoured points of the vehicles.[40]
In the buildup of forces prior to the assault on Grozny, T-80s had been transferred from depots to units with little experience with the tank. When no auxiliary power unit is equipped, the T-80's gas turbine engines consume almost as much fuel idling as when they are running. Most tank crews inadvertently exhausted their fuel this way on the day of the assault.-
Russian invasion of Ukraine
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces used T-80 tanks alongside T-72s and T-90s.[citation needed] Some were outfitted with improvised steel grilles on top of turrets, pejoratively called "cope cages" as a meme in online communities.[44] These are erroneously thought have been fit to counter top-attack munitions such as the FGM-148 Javelin and loitering munitions; the cage add-on was in fact equipped after concerns regarding urban fighting and experiences acquired during the Chechen conflict, in which several Russian tanks were lost due to shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon fire from buildings.[45][46]
A number of T-80BVM tanks have been destroyed in Ukraine.[47] As of 10 April a total of 19 tanks were reported destroyed.[48] 57 Russian T-80Us have also been lost. Only 15 were destroyed; 42 were abandoned.[49] As of 10 September 2022, the open-source intelligence site Oryx has visually confirmed the loss of 194 Russian T-80s (72 T-80BV, 2 T-80BVK, 77 T-80U, 2 T-80UK, 5 T-80UE-1, 1 T-80UM2 and 35 T-80BVM),[50][51] and 16 Ukrainian T-80s (16 T-80BV)
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The T-80 is a main battle tank (MBT)[11] 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.
The Ukrainian T-80UD diesel engine variant continued to be produced in Ukraine. The T-80 and its variants are in service in Belarus, Cyprus, Egypt, Kazakhstan,[13] Pakistan, #russia , South Korea, #ukraine and Uzbekistan. Ukraine further developed the T-80UD as the T-84
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