T-72 and its modifications. The backbone of the Russian tank forces

The T-72 became the most massive tank of the second post-war generation in the world-more than 30 thousand of these cars were produced in total. It is the "seventy deuces", who have gained well -deserved popularity among tankers, who still form the basis of the tank park of the Russian Federation, with their simplicity and exceptional operational reliability. This truly legendary tank, who met in the battle with the "Abrams" and "Chifhtena", was in service with all the armies of the Warsaw Treaty countries, in large quantities exported to the Middle and Middle East, to Asia and Africa, and was supplied to the "Perestroika" even in Finland. The T-72 participated in the Lebanese and Iraqi Wars, armed conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the operation of the “storm in the desert”, in almost all wars in the post-Soviet space: Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, the first and second Chechen campaigns, South Ossetia, Donbass. On the pages of the book of the leading historian of armored vehicles, the reader will find a detailed description of the design, little-known facts about the history of creation, full information about serial and licensed production, export, modernization (including the latest modification of the T-72B3, which has become an alternative to the main combat t-90 tank " "), combat and engineering vehicles based on the T-72, finally, the most interesting episodes of the combat use of the illustrious tank. The publication is illustrated by exclusive drawings and photographs