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The Vietnamese tank team completed the competitions excellently and finished first, beating the remaining 3 opponents, in the final “Tank Driven” at the Army Games 2020 international military festival in Russia.
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Vietnamese team tanks compete in the semifinals in Alabino, Russia. (Photo: Zvezda)
At 11:00 today 4/9 local time, that is, at 15:00 Hanoi time, the Vietnam People’s Army tank team will compete in the final match of Table 2 of the “Progressed Tank” contest in the framework of International Army Games (Army Games) 2020.
The final match of Group 2 of the “Tank Driven” contest will include 4 teams: Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Tajikistan. The teams will compete at the Alabino Stadium on the outskirts of Moscow.
In the final, the Vietnamese team will wear a yellow tank, similar to the qualifying and semi-final matches. Meanwhile, teams from Laos, Myanmar and Tajikistan will wear red, green and blue tanks in the final match.
Achievements of the Vietnamese team in qualifying and semi-finals
In the Table 2 semi-finals held on September 1, the Vietnamese tank team was behind the Myanmar tank team. The Myanmar team had a total time of 2 hours 18 minutes 04 seconds, and the Vietnamese team completed the competition with a total time of 2 hours 23 minutes 16 seconds.
Before the semi-finals, the Vietnamese tank team participated in 3 Group 2 qualifying matches on August 24, August 28 and August 29.
In the first game on August 24, the No. 1 team of the Vietnamese tank team achieved 32 minutes and 20 seconds, ranked second after the South Ossetian team with 31 minutes and 49 seconds.
In the second game on August 28, the No. 2 crew of the Vietnamese tank team achieved 34 minutes and 06 seconds, taking first place.
In the third game on August 29, the No. 3 crew of the Vietnamese tank team came to second place with a record 38 minutes.
In terms of examination time, the Vietnamese team ranked second in Group 2 in the semi-finals, after the Myanmar team. In terms of target shooting performance, Vietnam ranked first with 13 out of 24 targets shot down, Myanmar hit 9 targets, teams from Tajikistan, Laos and Congo reached 2.4.5 respectively.
In Table 2, there are 5 teams competing in the semifinals to choose the 4 teams with the best results in the final.
A total of 16 teams participated in the “Tanks in Progress” contest, divided into 2 groups that competed separately in each group.
Table 1 including Belarus, Serbia, Azerbaijan, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan. Table 2 including Vietnam, Myanmar, Qatar, South Ossetia, Laos, Tajikistan, Congo, and Abkhazia.
The final round of Group 1 of the “Tanks in Progress” competition consists of 4 teams: Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan and China, scheduled for September 5.
“Steed” T-72B3
The yellow tank of the Vietnamese team plays in Alabino. (Image: Reuters)
The Vietnamese tank team will use the yellow “steed” T-72B3 in the “Tank Warfare” contest of the 2020 Army Games.
The T-72B3 is one of the most powerful tanks on the Russian army payroll today.
The T-72B3 version is said to possess nearly the same power as the T-90 super tank when equipped with Relikt explosive response armor, advanced fire control systems, and turbocharged diesel engines.
The T-72B weighs 44.5 tonnes, measures 6.95 m long, 2.2 m high with a crew of 3. This is a variant of the legendary T-72 tank, the version of the main tank that “broke into” the Soviet Army. Later, Russia continued to improve the T-72B in many versions, including the T-72B3, T-90 … and it is still in use today.
Final competition mode “Tank proceeds”
Participation in the final round has 3 crews for each team and each team uses only one T-72B3 tank. Each team runs 4 laps, including overcoming obstacles and destroying 8 specific objectives. Specifically, the artillery rounds carried out with 3 targets No. 12 (tank simulation) with the distance respectively: 1,600, 1,700, 1,800 meters; The 12.7mm machine gun firing ring for target 25 (simulation helicopter) with a range of 800 to 1,000 meters and Stela 11 (simulation of anti-tank guns) has a range of 800 to 1,000 meters; The PKT machine gun firing ring with 3 9 stelae (simulating anti-tank guns) has a range of 600 – 800 meters and a sprint run.
The order of the rounds is based on the results of the draw approximately 1 hour before the match. Upon completion of the test, the first crew will transfer the tank to the second crew and so on to the third crew. The final result will be the total time of the 3 crews to complete the round.
A special characteristic of the relay race in the final is that in addition to the effort in the competition, it is also the coordination and understanding of the ideas of the crews during the team change process. Each team, after completing all the loops, must stop the tank before the starting line with the vehicle body in the middle of the two limit columns. The crew turns off the engine, gets out of the car, takes off their hats, hooks the car in place for the helmet, and closes the car door.
(According to the National Army)
Thanh Dat – Duc Hoang
According to the People’s Army, Zvezda
