![]() The T-72 has six large, die-cast, rubber-coated road wheels and three track return rollers. ![]() The T-72 medium tank is similar in general appearance to the T-64. In addition to production in the USSR it has been built under license in Czechoslovakia, India, Poland and former Yugoslavia. While the T-64 was deployed only in forward-deployed Soviet units, the T-72 was deployed within the USSR and exported to non-Soviet Warsaw Pact armies and several other countries. ![]() The T-72 retains the low silhouette of the T-54/55/ 62 series, featuring a conventional layout with integrated fuel cells and stowage containers which give a streamlined appearance to the fenders. The T-72, introduced in the early 1970s, is not a further development of the T-64, but rather a parallel design chosen as a high-production tank complementing the T-64. The T-72, which entered production in 1971, was first seen in public in 1977. ![]()
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