![]() ![]() The work on an American-German project of a new generation MBT-70 tank began in 1965that was to surpass its predecessors in mobility, firepower and protection. For this reason there was no mass production of the gas turbine version of the T-64T, which was created at the same time as the diesel version. In addition, the designers were unable to get rid of gas turbine teething problems including poor efficiency and air intake filtering problems. However work was stopped in 1960 because the Soviet industry re-directed its focus towards main battle tanks. The military industry did not stay behind: in 1955, the Kirov plant started working on two 52-55 ton heavy tanks: the Object 277 with a diesel engine and the Object 278 with a gas turbine engine. During this period there were many civil engineering projects with gas turbine motors: locomotives, trucks and even cars. It came as no surprise when soon after the first attempts were made to install them into land vehicles Special Design Bureau of the Kirov Plant started a project in 1948-1949 for a gas turbine tank, but the vehicle did not meet many of the military requirements (especially fuel consumption and power-to-weight ratio) and the development came to an end.ĭuring the fifties there was great interest in gas turbines, both in the Soviet Union and in the West. At the end of the forties, gas turbine engines had gained a decisive victory in aviation. ![]()
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