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Developer Diary: T-80UM-1 Bars

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Today we’d like to tell you more about the T-80UM-1 Bars that we are working on. The Bars will be a Tier 8 progression MBT that will be possible to unlock from the classic Tier 7 T-80U.

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A few words about the vehicle. The Bars (“Snow Leopard” in Russian) is a prototype version of the T-80U MBT from 1997, the main upgrade being the addition of the Arena hard-kill APS alongside the Shtora-1 soft-kill APS. The rest was comparable to a standard T-80U. A single vehicle was built and offered for export but the project didn’t really go anywhere.

And that’s about it – a more detailed article will follow when we are closer to the point of release, which will be the summer of 2023 (at the earliest, the vehicle is still in very early stages of development). It’s also a bit too early to say more about the gameplay of the vehicle or its available upgrades. What we can say is that we’ll be finishing the entire branch in 2023.

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Why are we letting you know this early on?

Because with a few more weeks left to the launch of the next Battle Path, we’re hard at work not only polishing it, but also planning ahead. We do have a number of exciting ideas for 2023 and this is but one of them. You do have other things to look forward to that we’ll tell you more about later.

Right now, most of our effort goes into the Battle Path but once the work is finished, we’ll pivot straight to our other plans.

 


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In Armored Warfare, the T-80UM-1 will be a Tier 8 Main Battle Tank.

The tank will be possible to unlock from the Tier 7 T-80U MBT of Marat Shishkin’s MBT branch.

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As you could have guessed from the history section of the article, the tank will be somewhat similar gameplay-wise to its T-80U predecessor. The basic armor will remain roughly the same but the tank will feature two APS systems:

  • Arena hard-kill APS
  • Shtora-1 soft-kill APS

The tank will also retain the predecessor’s solid firepower and will be able to use the more advanced 3VBM33 Svinets-2 APFSDS round (along with the HEAT and HE rounds as well as the Invar guided missile). We’re still considering additional ammunition such as programmable HE (3VOF77 Namestnik-1) and thermobaric gun-launched missiles (3UBK14F1). The mobility will also be excellent thanks to a new 1400hp engine (available as an upgrade), pushing the power-to-weight ratio to 30 hp/t.

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The introduction of this vehicle is still planned for the summer of 2023 and will be followed by the next vehicle in line, the T-80BVM, further down the line.

 

Now confirmed that T-80BVM will be the Tier 9 vehicle in the line.


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