Kontakt-1
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thumb|Kontakt-1 on the upper glacis and turret of a T-80BV Kontakt-1 (; GRAU indice: 4S20) is an explosive reactive armour (ERA) created in 1982 by Soviet NII Stali to protect tanks from shaped charges. The first tank with Kontakt-1 put into service was T-64BV in 1985. The system is still widely used by different countries within T-55, T-62, T-64, T-72, T-80 tank families among others.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- reactive armor
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Followed by
- Kontakt-5
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- Commons category
- Kontakt-1
- inception
- 1982-00-00
- service entry
- 1985-00-00
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thumb|Kontakt-1 on the upper glacis and turret of a T-80BV Kontakt-1 (; GRAU indice: 4S20) is an explosive reactive armour (ERA) created in 1982 by Soviet NII Stali to protect tanks from shaped charges. The first tank with Kontakt-1 put into service was T-64BV in 1985. The system is still widely used by different countries within T-55, T-62, T-64, T-72, T-80 tank families among others.
Kontakt-1 was the first Soviet ERA system, and its successor is Kontakt-5, put into the service in 1988.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kontakt-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.