Past Tank & Ordnance Pages

M551A1 SHERIDAN    T54/55 IRAQI TANK    M41A3 WALKER BULLDOG
M42A1 DUSTER    M20 ARMOURED CAR    M5A1 STUART    DAIMLER DINGO   
M110 SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZER    LVT    BRITISH FERRET    M4A3E8 SHERMAN

This T-72 Soviet designed main battle tank first entered production in 1972 with some 50,000 being built. The T-72 was produced at the Malyshev HMB Plant and at UKBM Nizhny taqil. Algeria, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary, India, Iran, Libya, Poland, Romania, Syria and Yugoslavia were the countries that received these tanks thru export from the Soviet Union. In November 2005 Hungary donated 77 T-72 tanks to the government of Iraq. The T-72 was a very advanced, but overly complicated design which featured an auto-loader which often malfunctioned. This particular T-72 is the more advanced "A" model featuring a laser range finder. The T-72 on display was captured from the Iraqi Army by U.S. Forces during Operation Desert Storm.