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Equipment Catalogue · Shared across conflicts

T-64 family

Force Atlas / Equipment / T-64 family

Recognition context, not a stat sheet. The catalogue covers major publicly documented systems relevant to the conflict — not an exhaustive order of battle. No quantities, availability or current allocations are recorded. See the methodology.
Main battle tank

T-64 family

The backbone of Ukraine's tank fleet — designed, built and overhauled in Kharkiv.

FieldedEvidence: Confirmed
Silhouette · not to scale

Record

FamilyT-64
VariantsT-64BV; T-64BV mod. 2017/2022; BM Bulat
OriginSoviet Union (Kharkiv design bureau, Ukraine)
ManufacturerKharkiv Morozov Design Bureau / Malyshev Plant
Era1960s design; Ukrainian modernisations to the 2020s
Appears inRussia–Ukraine

Operators

Ukraine · Primary operator

Battlefield role

The backbone of Ukraine's tank fleet — the tank Ukraine inherited, builds knowledge around, and overhauls domestically.

Strengths

Locally supported by the Kharkiv plant that designed it; 2017/2022 modernisations added modern optics; familiar to a generation of Ukrainian crews.

Limitations

Same crew-compartment carousel autoloader vulnerability as the T-72 family; aging fleet with finite hulls; maintenance-intensive engine.

Visual identification

Six small, closely spaced stamped road wheels (vs the T-72's larger ones); distinctive boxy ERA arrangement on the turret front; prominent gill-type side skirts on some vehicles.

Documented conflict use

In continuous documented combat use since 2014 and throughout the full-scale war as Ukraine's most numerous tank type.

Branch & service operators

Full profileConfidence: highStatus as of 2026-06Reviewed 2026-07-11Sources: Oryx visually-confirmed equipment documentation · Established international media reportingMethodology