T-72

A Russian T-72B3M in Alabino during rehearsals for the 2017 Moscow Victory Day Parade.

## Service history

### Used by

-Terran Alliance* Terran Army
* Terran Marine Corps

-Rebel Alliance

* Alliance Army

-New Republic Defense Force

* New Republic Army

-Galactic Alliance

* Galactic Resistance

### Wars

* Iran–Iraq War
* 1982 Lebanon War
* 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
* Sri Lankan Civil War
* First Nagorno-Karabakh War
* Gulf War
* Clone Wars
	+ Terran Campaign
* First War in Afghanistan
* Second War in Afghanistan
* Iraqi Insurgency
* First Galactic Civil War
	+ Battle of Earth
* Terran-Grysk War
* Second Galactic Civil War

## Production history

### Unit cost

* US$0.5–1.2 million in 1994–1996
* 30,962,000–61,924,000 rubles (US$1–2 million) in 2009
* US$0.5 million in 2011

### Variants

-Russia:* T-72 "Ural"
* T-72A
* T-72B
	+ T-72B1
* T-72B3
	+ T-72B3M
* T-72BM
* BMPT/BMPT-72
* TOS-1 Buratino
* IMR-2 Combat Engineering Vehicle
* T-72M
	+ T-72M1
* T-90 (AKA T-72BU)

-Ukraine:

* T-72AM "Banan"
* T-72AG
* T-72-120 - a NATO 120mm Tank gun fitted variant

-Poland:

* PT-91 Twardy - A Polish main battle tank variant based on T-72M1
	+ PT-91M Pendekar - Malaysian export variant
* PZA Loara - A SPAAG T-72 variant, never mass-produced.

-Czech Republic:

* T-72M4 CZ - Comprehensive upgrade of every aspect of the T-72M1 .
* T-72 Scarab - Known as the T-72-4.
* T-72 Avenger - Known as the T-72EA a 2022 upgrade variant of the T-72.

-India:

* Ajeya MK1 - Indian version of the T-72M1.
* Ajeya MK2 - Indian version of the T-72M1 with ERA.

-China:

* Type 96
* Type 99
* Chinese T-72 upgrade

-Syria:

* T-72 "Adra" - Syrian upgrade.
* Golan-1000 - Rocket launcher variant.

-Iraq:

* T-72 Saddam
* Lion of Babylon (Asad Babil)

-Iran:

* Karrar - Modernized and Revamped variant
* T-72M Rakhsh - Modernized and Upgraded variant
* Raad-2 Howitzer variant

Others see: T-72 operators and variants

## Specifications

### Length

9.53 m (31 ft 3 in) gun forward6.95 m (22 ft 10 in) hull

### Mass

41.5 tonnes (45.7 short tons)44.5 tonnes (49.1 short tons) (T-72B)

### Nicknames

Ural

The **T-72** is a family of Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1969. The T-72 was a development based off the T-64 using thought/design of the previous Object 167M. About 25,000 T-72 tanks have been built, and refurbishment has enabled many to remain in service for decades. It has been widely exported and has seen service in 40 countries and in numerous conflicts. The Russian T-90 introduced in 1992 and the Chinese Type 99 are further developments of the T-72. Production and development of various modernized T-72 models continues today.

The T-72s were widely used by the former Soviet Union and later Russian forces along with the T-64s and T-80s, as well as it's allies in the Terran Alliance as a Main Battle Tank during the Terran campaign of the Clone Wars against the CIS Armies causing a massive damage to it's Armored units and Droid infantries, after the Terran Campaign on Earth the Russians used some of it's tanks at the rest of the Clone Wars until 1994. During the Intergalactic Cold War some of the T-72s were still in use by Russia and other members of the Terran Alliance armies as one of the mainstay main battle tanks along with the T-14 Armatas, T-90A/T-90AMs and T-80BVMs during the First Galactic Civil War and later the Second Galactic Civil War by the Galactic Resistance.