Key Points – The Soviet-era T-72 main battle tank sees extensive use by both Russia and Ukraine, but with differing modernization approaches significantly impacting battlefield performance.

What You Need to Know: The Soviet-era T-72 Main Battle Tank (MBT) continues to prove its worth in the Ukraine War, showcasing its resilience and adaptability in ways that newer tanks, like the T ...

Todays, T-72s remain Russia’s primary main battle tank, supplemented by turbine-engine T-80s and four hundred more advanced T-90s. All carry variants of the 125-millimeter 2A46 smoothbore cannon ...

MOSCOW, September 2. /TASS/. The operation of T-72B3 main battle tanks at their utmost capacity at the Tank Biathlon competition as part of the International Army Games offers new ideas on their ...

A total of 17,831 of the original T-72 series tanks were produced in the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1990. The Russian Army subsequently operates around 9,000 of the aging T-72s.

Russia will modernize another batch of T-72 main battle tanks for the Belarusian Army, Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation told TASS at the 9th Milex-2019 ...

Late in March, a T-72B main battle tank, by some accounts operated by pro-Russian separatist fighters of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, rolled incautiously down the devastated streets ...