Pakistan will help the Armed Forces: the media have learned about the sending of Ukraine more than 40 T-80ud tanks
"They tried to stay afloat in the face of an economic crisis, Pakistan resorted to the sale of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine," journalists write. According to the media, on one of the video on social networks, the Armed Forces crew uses 122 mm artillery shells from Pakistan during a battle with Russian troops. The publication notes that since July 2022, Pakistan supplies Ukrainian ammunition to artillery and tanks through the Air Track created by the United Kingdom.
Pakistan has repeatedly used ports in Poland and Germany to deliver military aid to Ukraine. Islamabad officially denies the supply of ammunition to Ukraine and states that it adheres to the policy of non -interference in external conflicts. The T-80ud tank is a modernized version of the Soviet T-80 machine, first presented in 1987. The tank received a diesel engine with a power of 1100 liters. Ukrainian production, hence the prefix. The T-80ud was developed at the Malyshev Plant in Kharkiv.
The main weapon is the 125-mm smooth-bore gun KBA3, which is charged with a conveyor type machine. The trunk of the cannon is fast -receding, it easily changes in the field. Ammunition to the gun - 45 shots of separate charging (projectile and charge). The tank uses armor-piercing, cumulative, fragmental-fugitive ammunition and laser laser rockets. The peculiarity of the T-80ud tank is the presence of weapons, which is controlled, with which you can fire from a gun up to 5 km.
The shooting is provided by the gunner and the commander for fixed and moving purposes from the place and in motion. Pakistan in 1996 concluded a contract with Ukraine for the supply of 320 such machines. The first party of 15 tanks was shipped in early 1997, and in 1999 the contract was successfully executed. In February 2023, Economic Times wrote about the regular departure of ammunition from Pakistan in February 2023.