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Production history; Designer: Leonid Kartsev-Valeri Venediktov: Designed: 1967–1973: Manufacturer: Uralvagonzavod, Heavy Vehicles Factory: Unit cost: US$0.5–1.2 million in 1994–1996, [1] 30,962,000–61,924,000 rubles (US$1–2 million) in 2009, [citation needed] US$0.5 million in 2011 [2]
The T-72 is a Soviet-designed main battle tank that entered production in 1973. It replaced the T-54/55 series as the workhorse of Soviet tank forces (while the T-64 and T-80 served as the Soviet high-technology tanks).
T72 may refer to: T-72, a Soviet tank; Cooper T72, a racing car; Hunter T 72, a British-built trainer aircraft; INS Cheriyam (T72), a patrol vessel of the Indian Navy; MV Derrycunihy (1943), impressed into the Royal Navy as Motor Transport Ship T72
Derrycunihy was a general-purpose cargo ship of 10,200 tons built (yard number 275) by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company for McGowan & Gross of London. Because of critical shipping requirements during the Second World War she had been built at great speed: her keel was laid on 22 June 1943, she was launched on 11 November the same year, and was delivered on 26 February 1944.
A Turtle Tank in May 2024, showing its improvised armour and mine clearance roller. Turtle Tank (Russian: царь-мангал, [1] Tsar Mangal) is the nickname for a series of modified Russian T-62, T-72 and T-80 tanks supplied with an improvised steel roof and siding, as well as anti-drone slat armor which covers the entirety of the original vehicle.
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) expands on the NATO reporting names in some cases. NATO refers to surface-to-air missile systems mounted on ships or submarines with the same names as the corresponding land-based systems, but the US DOD assigns a different series of numbers with a different prefix (i.e., SA-N- versus SA-) for these systems.
The M-84 is based on the Soviet T-72M, the export variant of T-72A, brought to T-72M1 standard [1], with many improvements, including a domestic fire-control system that the T-72M lacked, improved composite armor, and a 1,000-hp engine. [2]
Twelve were ordered in 1940–1941, and numbered T61 to T72; but only eight were laid down by 1942 of which three were launched (the other five were destroyed on the slips); in 1944 these three incomplete ships (T61, T63 and T65) were transferred to the Baltic Sea to be completed, and T61 was torpedoed off the West Frisian Islands in September ...