T-72A 1982

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Specifications:

Crew:

3x man;

Top speed:

65 km/h

Armament:

1x 125mm 2A46 cannon; 1x 7,62mm PKT machine gun; 1x 12.7mm NSVT machine gun;

Brick count:

1300

Cost:

7,936u

How to use:

Switch APFSDS (9x ballistic gun) to HEAT (7x gun) - X; Fire extinguish system - J; Night vision (kinda works, if you use rangefinder sight) - Q; Frontal light - L; Throw smoke grenades - Num 3-4; Convoy lights - I;

History of T-72A 1982:

The T-72 is a Soviet second-generation main battle tank that entered production in 1971. About 20,000 T-72 tanks were built, making it one of the most widely produced post–World War II tanks, second only to the T-54/55 family. The T-72 was widely exported and saw service in 40 countries and in numerous conflicts.

The development of the T-72 was a direct result of the introduction of the T-64 tank. The T-64 (Object 432) was a very ambitious project to build a competitive well-armoured tank with a weight of not more than 36 tons. Under the direction of Alexander Morozov in Kharkov a new design emerged with the hull reduced to the minimum size possible. To do this, the crew was reduced to three soldiers, removing the loader by introducing an automated loading system. T-72 was a "mobilization variant" - it has much simpler engine and autoloader compared to T-64, also it use the same hull, but chassis was taken from canceled Object 167M (T-62B).

In 1982, after Soviet Union recieved M111 "Hetz" 105mm APFSDS, they found out that it was specially designed to go through 68* degrees sloped 3-layers combined armor (like T-64A/B/T-72/A/M/T-80/B had). So in 1983-1984 all those tanks was modified by "OKR Otrazhenie" program - additional 30mm hardened steel plate on front, which made it invulrnable to M111. After that all new manufactured tanks recieved frontal plate with 5 layers of combined armor.