The National Interest

The T-80U Has Increasingly Fallen Out of Favor in South Korea

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Nowadays, South Korea fields three “modern” main battle tanks, the T-80U and the indigenous K1 and K2. But how do Korean tankers think the T-80U stacks up against the ...
The National Interest

Why Don’t Korean Tankers Like the T-80U?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The lack of modernization due to the foreign nature of the parts for the tank and lack of will to “domesticize” a foreign design impeded the T-80U from being fully ...
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Why U.S. Ally South Korea Has T-80U Russian Tanks

Key Points: South Korea possesses a unique fleet of around 35 Russian T-80U main battle tanks, acquired through the "Operation Brown Bear" debt-for-arms deal with Russia in the 1990s. -Once the most ...
Anadolu Ajansi

Greek Cypriot administration to replace Russian T-80U tanks with Israel's Merkava

The Greek Cypriot administration has decided to gradually replace the Russian-made T-80U tanks in the army inventory, according to the Phileleftheros newspaper. During a four-hour meeting of the ...
TASS

Russian defense firm set to upgrade T-80BV main battle tanks

According to CEO Igor Lobov, Omsktransmash is also ready to modernize T-80U main battle tanks operational in the armies of foreign states MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. The Omsk Transport Machine-Building ...