T-72 Main Battle Tank

T-72 photo

The T-72 is a Soviet main battle tank that entered production in 1971. More than 25000 were built and exported all over the world. Here are a couple of sites to read more about this tank:
WikiPedia
Global Security

In September of 2008, Somalia pirates captured a freighter containing 33 T-72s.

Specifications (T-72)
Weight 41.5 tons
Length 9.53 m (31 ft 3 in)
Width 3.59 m (11 ft 9 in)
Height 2.23 m (7 ft 4 in)
Crew 3
Armour 500 mm (20 in) of 3rd generation composite armour consisting of high hardness steel, tungsten, and plastic filler with ceramic component
Primary armament 125mm 2A46M smoothbore gun
Secondary
armament 		7.62mm PKT coax machine gun, 12.7mm NSVT antiaircraft machine gun
Engine V-12 diesel
780 hp (582 kw)
Power/weight 18.8 hp/t
Suspension torsion bar
Ground clearance 0.49 m (19 in)
Fuel capacity 1,200 L (320 U.S. gal; 260 imp gal)
Operational
range 		460 km (290 mi), 700 km (430 mi) with fuel drums
Speed 80 km/h (50 mph)
Back to T-72 Overview