Thursday 7 June 2012

T80UD MBT of Pakistan

 
T-80UD is a MBT, manufactured in the rise of Soviet Union.T-80U was the last Production in the Factory Omsk, Russia. T-80UD was further updated in Ukraine.  T-80UD, the MBTs are still in the service of following Countries Belarus, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, and Ukraine. Later on they were further exported to China and UK.

In 1995  Ukraine decided to export T-80UD to Pakistan. Pakistan tested the tank and decided to buy 320 T-80UD from Ukraine for $650 million. But all of them were not delivered to Pakistan, as Russia was the owner of Its very first Units Produced, Russia apposed Ukraine, as Russia is an Ally of India.  An amount of 285 is said that was delivered to Pakistan in real sense.
World is taking a keen interest in having T-80UD MBT as It is far less expensive than the western Tanks.

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