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2021-12-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian T-72 characterized as reliable for Russian Army

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Posted by badanov 2021-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ...Against the kind of opposition the Russians can reasonably expect to face in the Ukraine, the T-72 will do just fine. Against the latest iterations of the Abrams or Challenger, it's going to have problems.

A couple of other points -

*The autoloaders are really great when they work. They have been known to try and load the odd crewmember.
*Reactive armor is great against RPGs, less effective against LAW's, and utterly useless against a GAU-8. Against other tanks it's helpful - but you better be able to kill that tank before it gets a second round off.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-01 06:36|| 2021-12-01 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Upgraded T-72s are still a good and reliable tank against 3rd world foes. Any western tank will put them out of action right quick. 3rd world countries that get access to modern anti-tank missiles would be able to knock out quite a few as well.

The T-72s and newer Russian tanks in Syria suffered heavy casualties to modern missiles.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-12-01 09:29|| 2021-12-01 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The T-72s and newer Russian tanks in Syria suffered heavy casualties to modern missiles.

Those were M models in Syria, not B models which are much more capable.

Posted by badanov 2021-12-01 09:45|| 2021-12-01 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 ...maybe true, but I believe they had red on red experience in Chechnya.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-12-01 15:39|| 2021-12-01 15:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Those were M models in Syria, not B models which are much more capable

How much more if the newer T-90A tanks were getting taken out by older TOWs? If the rebels had the newer TOWs that had a top down attack mode, they would all have been toast.

I would like to see how well the newer versions perform against current generation missiles. I know the active protection system has improved since then.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-12-01 18:37|| 2021-12-01 18:37|| Front Page Top

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