Many Russian tanks have ... and blows off the top. The ongoing war in Ukraine has put this vulnerability and the future of one of the world’s most popular tanks, the T-72, on public display.

Soviet-era T-72 tanks ... are no longer just tanks. They’re being employed as makeshift artillery and direct assault vehicles, capable of hitting targets up to 10 kilometers away.

What You Need to Know: The Soviet-era T-72 Main Battle Tank (MBT) continues to prove its ... have failed to live up to much older systems, like the Soviet-era T-72 or the even older T-64 MBT.

"The T-72 tank possesses huge potential for its modernization and this is why the Tank Biathlon brings new ideas on improving its design," the statement says. The Tank Biathlon contest makes it ...

MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. Russia’s new active protection system Arena-M for T-72 and T-90 tanks is capable of protecting armored vehicles from US Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided ...