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The Russian Federation had over 10,000 T-72 tanks in use, including around 2,000 in active service and 8,000 in reserve (mostly T-72Bs). The T-72 has been used by the Russian Army in the fighting during the First and Second Chechen Wars, the Russo-Georgian War, and the Russo-Ukrainian War. The T-72 has been used by over 40 countries worldwide.
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).
T-90: Main battle tank ~220 [52] Russia: 350 T-90A and 67 T-90M in service as of 2021. [115] 200 T-90 in storage as of 2021. [115] (Unknown number of T-90M tanks delivered in 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine) [55] Unknown number of T-90A withdrawn from storage in mid-September 2022. [55]
Main battle tank: 350 [9] T72BA variant Soviet T-72 tanks were modernized. Tank support vehicle BMPT-72 Terminator 2 Soviet Union / Russian Federation: Tank destroyer: 3 [9] Chassis from Soviet T-72 tanks. Armoured reconnaissance vehicle; BRDM-2 Soviet Union: Reconnaissance vehicle 40 [9] BRM-1 Soviet Union: Reconnaissance vehicle 60 [9 ...
It was designed to replace the DShK machine gun and was adopted by the Soviet Army in 1971. The NSV was manufactured at the Metallist plant in Uralsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union. The vehicle-mounted NSVT variant is used on the T-72, [2] T-64 [3] and T-80 [4] battle tanks. Like many Soviet weapons, the NSV was also licence produced by Yugoslavia ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Design Bureau in Ekaterinburg in the 1960s originally for the T-64 tank. ... based on 2A46M imported from Russia's T-72 or T-80 ...
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Soviet tanks, like this T-72, use advanced variants of the dual transmission system to this day. A simple step up from the dual-drive concept is to use a single engine and split the power output into two transmissions. Steering is accomplished by changing the gear on one track and not the other.