The Tirex’s remote-controlled combat module houses a 152-millimeter smoothbore main gun on its unmanned turret. Russia’s advanced T-14 Armata main battle tank uses similar principles. Loading of the main gun is automated, and the tank’s unmanned turret is controlled remotely from the crew capsule. For extra crew safety and survival in combat, the tank’s ammunition is stored in the vehicle’s rear – as far from the crew as possible. Unlike in old Soviet designs, crew safety is a high priority: The Tirex crew of three operates the vehicle inside an reinforced armored capsule at the front of the tank. Soon after these designs are approved by the Defense Ministry, which is a top-priority wartime customer, new technological solutions and (Ukraine’s) industrial base will enable us to modernize up to 10 T-64 tanks to the Tirex level.” Crew safetyĪccording to the designers, the Tirex will be equipped with a heavy composite armored body, including elements of the modern Nozh and Duplet reactive armor systems: This type of armor neutralizes attacking projectiles with controlled explosions, making tanks less vulnerable to hollow-charge anti-tank shells. “But our project is not a future tank, it is a mass production tank for today. “They would be of the fourth or fourth-plus generation, so they can be compared with our enemy’s modern armor, including the much-hyped Armata.” “Our point is that the existing T-64 tank stock enables us to build new combat vehicles, based on those tanks, within a very short time,” the designers of the Tirex told Ukraine’s Defense Express magazine. Most of these tanks were mothballed because Ukraine lacked the funds to keep them operational. The designers decided to use the T-64 as the basis for the tank because Ukraine inherited 2,000 T-64s after the fall of the Soviet Union. The new war machine is a radical overhaul of the Soviet-era T-64 main battle tank. The new Ukrainian tank has been dubbed “Tirex” (pronounced “T-Rex,” like the dinosaur.) The Tirex was designed in 2015-2016 by the engineering group of the Ukrainian National Guard’s Azov regiment, and the design patented in early January. Ukraine could soon start producing a newly designed advanced battle tank – one its designers say is a match for Russia’s new T-14 Armata heavy tank.
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