Military Vehicles 1980-1989
Having peaked, the Soviet Empire entered into a period of decline which culminated in independence for many leading into the next decade.
There are a total of 50 Military Vehicles from 1980 - 1989 in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1989
The 2S19 MSTA is the primary self-propelled artillery system of the Russian Army today, fielding a powerful 152mm main gun ab...
1981
The amphibious AMX-10RC armored car was developed and built by GIAT Industries, a French government owned weapons manufacture...
1986
The AMX-40 was an abandoned French main battle tank design intended for export to succeed the equally export-minded AMX-32 se...
1983
The original M41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank was an American product of lessons learned through World War 2. Design work on the...
1985
The BMD-2 was a further evolution of the BMD-1 line of amphibious light infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) intended to be air-d...
1982
The Soviet Union introduced the concept of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) with the adoption of its BMP-1 in 1966. The ty...
1987
Soviet Union engineers and factories garnered much experience in the massive armor battles against German and Axis forces tha...
1980
The BTR-70 represents a further development of the successful line of BTR-60 armored personnel carriers of Soviet design. The...
1987
The BTR-80 was the logical evolution of the wheeled armored personnel carrier (APC) BTR series that more or less hit its stri...
1988
The Stingray Light Tank was developed as a private venture by Cadillac Gage (now Textron Marine & Land Systems) with the budg...
1983
The original combat "tank" was born out of the fighting that was World War 1. However, these were hardly representative of th...
1987
The Scorpion DPV (Desert Patrol Vehicle) is a three-man on-road/off-road vehicle used for many long-range desert operations i...
1981
At present, the Chonma-ho (or "Sky Horse" or "Pegasus") represents one of the more numerous and modern of all the North Korea...
1988
The G6 "Rhino" is an indigenous South African self-propelled artillery platform utilizing a six-wheeled chassis and armed wit...
1987
In the early 1980s, the Brazilian concern of Engesa undertook a private venture initiative to produce a modern Main Battle Ta...
1981
Based on the Alvis Scorpion CVR(T) model, the Stormer was a further development primarily for export. The Stormer, like its S...
1986
The Warrior is an infantry fighting vehicle currently in service with the armies of the United Kingdom and Kuwait. While the ...
1985
Aside from the M1 Abrams, perhaps no other American armored vehicle has represented the American Army more than the venerable...
1989
The Humvee Avenger is a modified form of the M1037 shelter carrier Humvee. It is a short-range mobile anti-aircraft defense ...
1985
Prior to the arrival of the K9 "Thunder" Self-Propelled Gun (SPG), the South Korean Army relied on the K55 series of similar ...
1981
The Khalid Main Battle Tank was born out of the aborted "Shir 1" initiative undertaken by the British to fulfill an Iranian A...
1983
The Defender 110 is produced by the British Land Rover Company for military use. The British Army and some Commonwealth natio...
1983
The LAV-25 8x8 wheeled system was designed and produced by General Motors of Canada (which went on to become General Dynamics...
1980
The M1 Abrams was designed by Chrysler Defense and produced under the General Dynamics brand. The tank was introduced in 1979...
1981
The M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle fulfilled a US Army requirement started in the early 1960's for a mechanized system ...
1983
The M270 MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) is a battlefield support weapon produced buy the Lockheed Martin Vought firm. T...
1981
The M3 Bradley CFV (Cavalry Fighting Vehicle) is very similar to the M2 Bradley IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) and only vari...
1989
The M60A1 AVLB (Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge) is a battlefield engineering vehicle used for launching and retrieving a 60-...
1985
In January of 1946, Yugoslavia accepted a communistic government aligned with the Soviet Union. This allowed for political an...
1988
The ADATS is categorized as a low-level, short range air defense (SHORAD) system. The Canadian ADATS air defense system is mo...
1983
The Olifant is a further development of the successful British Centurion tank design. When the UN imposed a trade embargo on ...
1981
Recognizing the need for a budget main battle tank on the world market, the Italian concerns of OTO Melara and FIAT combined ...
1982
The Palmaria 155mm self-propelled gun was developed as an in-house venture for interested foreign parties by the Italian conc...
1984
The Puma is a heavily-armored Combat Engineering Vehicle (CEV) that doubles as an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) for the Com...
1986
The South Korean military has used tanks developed and produced in the United States from the time of the Korean War. In the ...
1982
The 2K22 "Tunguska" (NATO codename of SA-19 "Grisom") is a self-propelled, tracked air defense system that combines both rapi...
1983
The Saxon AT105 is a 4-wheeled armored personnel carrier (APC) used by the British Army and supplied in small numbers to seve...
1983
Attempting to modernized its extensively outdated armored corps consisting of World War 2-era M4 Sherman Medium Tanks and M3/...
1983
In the 1970s, the Argentine government commissioned the German concern of Thyssen-Henschel (Rheinmetall since 1999) to produc...
1980
The NORINCO Type 80 is based on the Type 69 main battle tank albeit with an entirely new hull design making the Type 80 an en...
1985
The PT-85 is a light amphibious tank system (may also be known as the "Type 82" or "Type 85") in service with the North Korea...
1985
The NORINCO-produced Type-85-II is a further development of the Type 80 main battle tank but offers up a host of improvements...
1987
The Type 87 SPAAG is a conventional tracked, self-propelled, anti-aircraft gunnery platform indigenously developed by the Jap...
1982
Italy already maintained several thousand license-production American M113 armored personnel carriers by OTO Melara, so it wa...
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