Some people can’t find it in themselves to steal a pin. This isn’t that: “thieves” are believed to have made off with 100 (one hundred, to be sure) T-72 tanks, all modernized and upgraded to T-72M1R ...

David Axe writes about ships, planes, tanks, drones and missiles. Jan 28, 2023, 06:51pm EST Updated Jan 29, 2023, 04:47am EST T-72B1 Obr. 2022s. The Ukrainian army isn’t the only one getting new tanks ...

While Russia has 3,500 T-80s, that tank seems to be a dead end. While the T-14 Armata is an intriguing and sophisticated next-generation tank, it seems unlikely that it will be mass-produced enough to ...

Ukraine is receiving refurbished T-72 tanks pulled from old Warsaw Pact stockpiles and rebuilt by a Czech defense company. Many of the vehicles had been sitting in storage for decades and now require ...

March 31, 2015: A Russian motorized infantry brigade in Western Siberia recently received fifteen modernized T-72B3 tanks. This is a modernized version of T-72 with an improved fire control system and ...

The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) on Tuesday shared a video that it said shows one of its drones destroying a T-72 tank and other Russian equipment in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The ...

Key point: Russia still has 2,5000 active duty T-72s. When the Soviet T-72 tank was first deployed, Richard Nixon was President, the F-4 Phantom was America’s primary fighter, and the world’s steel ...

Russia’s BMPT-72 “Terminator-2” was built to protect tanks in cities, but limited numbers and flaws have exposed its ...

Russia’s tank shortage is worse than some observers previously thought. The Kremlin’s stocks of its most numerous tank, the Cold War-vintage T-72, are running out fast. The worsening T-72 shortfall ...

PGZ consortium and ZM Bumar-Łabędy are to refurbish and upgrade the Polish Army’s T-72 tanks under a contract with the Polish Ministry of Defence announced on 22 July. The $450 million contract will ...