PT-85

The PT-85 is a tier 1 light tank originating from Soviet Union. It is sold by Marat Shishkin and leads to the T-55, T92 LT, T-62 and BMD-1.

This vehicle is one of the five starting vehicles in Armored Warfare, along with the M41,Scimitar, M50 and Type 62. It is by default unlocked and owned by new players, and can be purchased for free from Marat Shishkin if sold.

Features

 * Invisible movement: motion does not reduce camouflage factor.
 * Designated target: vehicle has the ability to designate targets that are within line of sight and vision range. Designated targets are called out and takes increased damage
 * Waterproof: this vehicle can remain longer under water

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History
Class: Light Tank (Prototype) Developed: 1960-1963 Service: N/A Vehicles Built: 6 Operators: N/A The Object 906 Light Tank was developed in the early 1960s in Volgograd. The goal of the program was to update the aging PT-76 Light Tank with more firepower – the 76mm gun never really packed much of a punch and 15 years after the end of the Second World War, it truly was quite obsolete. It’s not that the tank was supposed to fight enemy MBTs – it wasn’t, but the 76mm shells did not offer much in the way of high-explosive firepower either and that was a problem. As a result, a number of light tanks were proposed to replace the aging vehicle. One of them was a proposal by the Volgograd Tractor Plant under the leadership of I.V.Gavalov. The development started in 1960 and six prototypes were built from 1961 to 1962. As its name suggests (PT stands for “Swimming Tank” in Russian), the tank was fully amphibious, a trait that had much influence on the vehicle’s overall shape and design. This was a typical Russian requirement and the PT series was literally designed around it with the Soviet doctrine putting a lot of emphasis on opposed river crossings. The biggest improvement was its firepower. Instead of the old 76mm D-56T gun, the vehicle carried an 85mm rifled gun called D-58. Overall, it was a solid vehicle and two of the six prototypes underwent official tests from January to August 1963. It was, however, never accepted in service. There was no single major flaw in its design. It was more the entire set of its characteristics that doomed the tank. By the time it was ready, the Soviets were already hard at work developing another promising vehicle that would three years later become the BMP-1, which was more than capable of fulfilling practically all the roles the light tank was designed for, making it effectively obsolete.