Made in Kharkov, Ukraine, the T-72 tank was introduced into military service in 1972. A numerous many have been built and sold to other warring countries to include Algeria, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Slovala, Finland, Hungary, India, Iran, Lybia, Myanmar, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Syria, and Yugoslavia. There are many models of the original T-72 tank that are slightly modified to the specification of certain militaries.
The tank has a variety of weapons at its diposal there is the 125mm D-81 smooth bore gun, a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun, and the 12.7mm air defense machine gun. The weapon the T-72 fire armor piercing rounds, high explosive anti-tank rounds and high explosive fragmentation rounds. The T-72 is also protected by an anit-armour missile system known as the AT-11 Sniper. The AT-11 is meant to engage low flying targets and other tanks. The tank is also equipped with its own generator in case the main power source runs out. The T-72 is driven by V-84 liquid-cooled-four-stroke mulit-fuel diesel engine, planetary transmission with hydraulic servo-control system, running gear with RMSH track and torsion bar suspension with hydraulic shock absorbers. In other words it can go as fast off-road as on. A neat feature of the T_72 is its ability to travel underwater although it can only travel at a depth of 1.2m without snorkels to which it can for to 5m.
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