Strong Europe Tank Challenge
The Strong Europe Tank Challenge (SETC) was an annual, multinational tank platoon competition held from 2016 to 2018 at Grafenwöhr Training Area, Germany, and hosted by the U.S. Army Europe and the German Army.
The SETC 2016 trophy, with a German Leopard 2A6 in the background.
The T-64 is a Soviet tank manufactured in Kharkiv, and designed by Alexander Morozov. The tank was introduced in the early 1960s. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62: the T-64 served in tank divisions, while the T-62 supported infantry in motor rifle divisions. It introduced a number of advanced features including composite armour, a compact engine and transmission, and a smoothbore 125-mm gun equipped with an autoloader to allow the crew to be reduced to three so the tank could be smaller and lighter. In spite of being armed and armoured like a heavy tank, the T-64 weighed only 38 tonnes.
T-64BV model 2017 in 2021
Object 430 prototype on display at the Kubinka Tank Museum in September 2008
Obyekt 447 at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, Kyiv, Ukraine
The T-64 has a characteristic exhaust vent in the rear