Ukraine set out to prove it could build a modern main battle tank by transforming decades of Soviet experience into the BM Oplot. We followed its development from the T-80 lineage through ambitious ...

Built on the bones of the Soviet T-80 and updated with advanced armor and Western-style autoloaders, the Ukrainian T-84 Oplot-M was engineered to rival or exceed tanks like the Leopard 2 and M1A2 ...