T-72
Role: MAIN BATTLE TANK | Period: COLD WAR | Nation: USSR
Category: Heavy tank
Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver)
Engine: Diesel engine
Designer: Leonid Kartsev-Valeri Venediktov
Manufacturer: Uralvagonzavod, Heavy Vehicles Factory
Number built: approx. 25,000
In service: 1970 – present
Main variants
- Objekt 172 – Prototype
- T-72 Ural – Production version (1973)
- T-72A – Production version (1979)
- T-72M – Export version, similar to T-72A
- T-72B – Production version (1985)
- T-72 SIM-1 – Production version (2007)
- T-72B3 – Production version (2010)
- T-72B3M – Production version (2016)
Main operational service
- Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988)
- Lebanon War (1982)
- Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982)
- Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
- First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)
- Georgian Civil War (1991-1993)
- Civil war in Tajikistan (1992-1997)
- Gulf War (1991)
- Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001)
- Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
- Rwanda Civil War (1990-1994)
- First Chechen War (1994-1996)
- Second Chechen War (1999-2000)
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- War in South Ossetia (2008)
- Libyan Civil War (2011–present)
- Syrian Civil War (2011 – present)
- South Sudanese Civil War (2013-2020)
- Conflict in Ukraine (2014)
- Iraqi Civil War (2013–2017)
- Boko Haram insurgency (2009 – present)
- Nagorno-Karabakh clashes (2016)
- Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020)
- Tigray Conflict (2018–present)
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T-72 - Books
T-72 - Model Kits
Source: This article uses material from the Wikipedia article “T-72”, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. [Title image] – Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped. [Image 1] – Sgt. 1st Class Brent Hunt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. [Image 2] – Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. [Image 3] – K2xe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. [Image 4] – Spc. Jared Eastman, U.S. Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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