Summary and Key Points: The T-72 main battle tank, developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, remains iconic and widely used today due to ongoing modernization. -Originally designed as a more ...

Regardless of what the world of video game slang may have you believe, tanks aren't all intended to simply turtle up and absorb heavy damage. Lighter, more maneuverable models exploit their mobility ...

Another Russian regiment apparently has reequipped with older T-72 tanks. It’s further evidence that, despite a heroic effort on the part of Kremlin planners to expand production of more modern tank ...

Summary and Key Points: Russia’s T-72 tank, widely deployed in Ukraine, faces a critical design flaw that leaves it vulnerable to modern anti-tank systems. Built in the 1960s, the T-72’s automated ...

Russian T-72B3 tanks parading through Red Square. They look impressive but failure to update the old tanks has left several major flaws. “When you need tanks urgently, like Russia, which loses tanks ...

Summary and Key Points: The Russo-Ukraine War has resulted in severe loss of life and equipment, with fighting being the most intense in Europe since World War II. As the conflict approaches two and a ...

The American M1 Abrams main battle tank was designed in the late 1970s to combat possible threats coming out of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. As world events would have it, the Soviet Union ...

The armament of the T-72 MBT, pictured above taking part in an Indian Army exercise in November 2022, includes a 125 mm smoothbore 2A46 main gun, a 7.62 mm co-axial machine gun mounted to the right of ...

In Vladimir Putin's ideal world, a proverbial sea of Russian T-72 main battle tanks (MBTs) would roll through the Ukrainian front lines and march uncontested through the streets of Kyiv like a Russian ...