And deadly

The tank do be rather stacked tho

Reminds me of lieutenant Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo: "Very well built"

My X was a "rather well built" gal.

Rather healthy. My preferred term

The same can be said for its grandparents the T-54s. At least the T-90s are still mixable. Did you see the Chinese variations on the t-54? Absolutely wild! The type 96, despite having nearly everything completely different, still uses the same T-54 hull dimensions.

They're like a male and female mules trying to breed, they desire to breed, but it's to no avail!

@@martentrudeau6948 Serbia made so far best T72 family upgrade, with Yugoslavian version of T72(M84) now named M84AS1 and AS2

What, like pizzly bears?

The tanks are following the evolutionary path leading to different species.

I seem to remember something similar on a documentary about the US recognition names given to Japanese WW2 aircraft. Apparently the Betty bomber was named after a US nurse one of the team had met. He was reminded of her by the two very large blisters on the sides. Though I have a feeling that what she had were not blisters

And in the 50's american cars had "Dagmar bumpers" named after the actress Dagmar (born Virginia Ruth Egnor).

Weapons grade tact

Now I’m Not usually one to point these out, as it’s not that bigger deal - (great video as per usual) but does he keep saying Tizhny Nagil - instead of Nizhny Tagil (which I believe is correct) unless it’s pronounced/interchanged depending on translation. 😀

Timestamp?

warthunderist?

Nice...lol Very funny but true.

Oh God that awful

And no retreat comrade, reverse is not the way

WOT

That would be Abrams for me but I agree. Its very Tanky

@@Masada1911 Abrams is one of the ugliest modern mbts to me, not that it makes a difference to how effective it is.

@@britbong1457 Agreed. It's much less attractive than the Soviet made tanks

I like the T-64 more, just not the autoloader though

@@moritamikamikara3879 Leopard 2, Leclerc and T-80 look cool but nothing beats challenger 2 of course :р

hahahah. Best comment today!

Victory for Ukraine!

Aye!

🤣that’s too true

It's very windy in the Ukraine since February 24th.

Idk but that made me laugh

Small whit big granades, deadly

@@ljubomirculibrk4097 her age shows but still a nice ride :)

Not true… No one has been successfully at blowing her top off like the T-72… She is an Abrams with those massive twin uranium armor plates on the front that never comes off in Public …

@@CH-pv2rz well said.

Almost as bad as trying to keep up with all of the various Marks of Spitfire. That's good for starting a headache.

Hell you'd have to keep updating the book, since the tank is still in service with many countries they'll want to keep upgrading them in various ways.

Just the same as writing a book, called “M3”. Just try to thing of everything called M3 in the different branches of the US military and you are up for a long count and a big laugh:D

If you want to know about Soviet variants up to 1991, watch this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fM6InbqSzLyrdmw.html

T-55 ended up being in service so long that it was the first tank with a hard kill active protection system (T-55AMV in Soviet Navy service iirc, but remembering T-55 designations is impossible lol). I wonder if T-72 will serve long enough for someone to slap a laser point defense system on it.

See the AR-15. It was intended as a stopgap until Project SPIW produced something better, but it just didn't and the AR-15 has stuck around for a very long time

Extra encouragement to watch where your driving!

And they say the Soviets didn't care about crew comfort

Its soft rubber for a fan :)

In soviet Russia you blow fan

get's hot in a metal box in Afghanistan

So small in comparison to other tanks in the West that the Soviet had a mandated height requirement of 5"4. I heard from a guy that drove a T-72; he was an American and he quoted, "Only midgets could 've drive this tank".

This and the 64, which one is smaller?

I saw that tank in Bovington and I was surprised how small a profile it has. After seeing the Tiger it was even more surprising.

@@BHuang92 Think 5"9' was the limit

@@zxbzxbzxb1 That was the height David quoted.

like a boer, these are trully boxer tanks

But there in lies issues

They are the first Soviet tank was a sport tank, they just upgraded it

I totally read "sportstank" in Jeremy Clarkson's voice.

Being low and sleek doesn't help much when being NLAW'd from above. Mind you it's certainly sporty when it turns into a cabriolet.

I picture a fish tank.

So iconic.

I see the Centurion.

I picture the t-55

Maybe it's been flashed across the world's TV screens back when the anti communist revolutions in Europe and Tiannamen etc. Took place.

Lol, keep it away from Ukraine then!!! When the Russians lose, you might be able to buy one for cheap from the Ukrainian Farmers Union 🚜 😀, BUT never ask a Ukrainian farmer how he got his tanks 🤔 🙄 💀 😒 🤣

@@Craig-wp3pz Ukrainian farmer will say that he went to the forest for mushrooms and our tank

😃

You mean more easily retrieve the charred bodies.

They will be using them as tractors in eastern europe for years to come

It works for them.

Well, if you gave me two options between the US or Soviet tanks back in the 70s: American M60 Patton tank or the T-72; I would've picked the T-72. (between the Centurion or T-72, it's a bit harder to decide and that's sad because the Centurion comes from WW2). The T-72 is like the AK-47, old equipment that's astonishingly still being used today (including by Ukraine). It's like this medieval armour vs early gun test -> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r82RhrCWuc6RlmQ.html Frankly I'm impressed in this video how many hits that tank took and held up (from the side and rear no less and frankly that shouldn't happen, because you're supposed to have infantry or IFV's protecting each other's flanks etc) -> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZ-giaiBlafeimg.html I think it's more a case of doctrine (or in this case many of the commanders and units didn't know they where going to actually attack), so a lot of it was rushed. Tanks running out of supply etc. Also not to mentions this fact -> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibx0YNFz27mmm6s.html And I can't stress doctrine enough. Look at the M1 Abrams tanks in Yemen or Turkey's Leopard tanks in Syria. Tanks are (even from WW2 days) are very vulnerable in Urban or close quarter combat.

They blow up well too

@@astralwerks4 The Javelines did not exist when T-72 and T-64 were designed. They were excellent for the times.

@@morning_glorymonster3473 Not really, they had Sagger etc and other NAT wire guided Anti Tank missiles that could crack them open with hollow charge weapons like Swingfire were on the scenre already,. Sometimes when the Israeli´s fired their .50 inch ranging guns on the Centurion Tanks the crews were already bailing out! Just a pity their training is so crap, every tank is only as good as its crew?

Actually a T-55 drives much better than a T-72.

@@jimmylight4866 No. T-72 has a more powerful engine and is way faster. Still, T-55 is a pleasure to drive. Its 'cruches' are surprisingly sensitive and easy to operate. Unfortunatelly, I had to drive it only once as I was a gunner. It fealt more like sailing on water than like riding on a bumpy road. Still, this is how it feels low, in the driver's seat. When one is in the turret, the riding is anything but pleasant.

You were expendable unfortunately.

And a few of them even come with turrets attached!

Pretty similar things happen to Abrams and Leopards when hit by ATGMs. Have a look at Yemen or Syria.

@@thomasp506 yes abrams have been taken out but not like t-72 ....

@@tbateman9902 They don't blow up as spectacularly, but they get taken out all the same. ATGMs just hard counter tanks, period.

@lil' donnie That's my point. Crew inexperience is a bigger factor than the design of the tank. A Javelin would smoke a T-72 and an Abrams all the same. The ammo going off is just added fireworks. The lack of air and infantry support, and positioning of the tank, is what allows that to happen.

Leo 2 is probably the only thing that comes close to t72 in terms of export numbers

I think you guys bought the (some of the) Leopards from us (the Netherlands) :) I hope you take good care of them, I think it was a mistake to sell all our tanks tbh.

Tanks are pretty much obsolete in 21st century warfare. They are fine in asymmetrical warfare, but if your opponent has drones and TOW missile defenses then it’s not cost effective to deploy tanks. In Iraq, American’s destroyed more vehicles with IFV equipped with missiles launchers than our main battle tanks.

@@snakedogman I heard that there was a bit of a debate on the NL media about selling A6s to Finland. I also heard that one of the arguments was that they become better use in here :)-

@@EmergencyChannel Tanks are definitely not obsolete. Drones cannot hold positions or operate in all weathers, and IFVs/APCs don't have the protection levels of MBTs. See The Chieftan's comments for someone who knows what they're talking about, I'm just repeating his points.

Definitely an imagination overload.

That means M60 is Super dolly T-72 or what?

@@akrepiidfiresupportvehicle2289 More of a Missy Elliott, if you ask me :D:D:D But man, I guess that you can place a grand piano inside an M60 or a Leopard 1, if required by the combat doctrine:D

The Super Dolly Parton armor is a silicone composite 🤣

No thank you. This video is just fine. This channel says they stay out of politics, and current events. They are only here to educate and teach.

@@TheBigExclusive Well, I sort of got what I wished for. It is relevant to any critique of the T72 that its vulnerability has been dramatically exposed.

Same here My favorite of Modern MBT's. Tiger is #1 all time though.

Oh. So that's the name of «hunter car», so-called modification of the vehicle from Xenonauts?

Don't forget the slave-based food import economy from the occupied countries to keep those tank factory workers alive...

Now a burned tank export economy.

"Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Joleeeeene, I'm begging of you please don't take my tank"

I don't think Russia cares. They lost over 20,000 T34's during WW2.

Don’t forget 2nd cousin Panzerfaust!

Only when driven by ukenazis tho

Because russian tanks are more of a threat to their crews than to anyone else…

And here I am in 2023 after leopards,Bradley's,challengers,cv90s and other western game changers have been converted into scrap by russian mines and artillery

But you lose an expensive autoloader rather than a loader that you got free of charge :(

@@akmzd6938 you can mass produce autoloaders easier and quicker than growing new human beings. Once we see the first leopard or M1 either destroyed, broken down and captured or surrendered we will start to have questions arising, "who thought the gas-guzzling M1, too heavy for bridges etc, would be a good idea?" Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan, we have hyped up good but nowhere near invincible weapons

Id say tbe T54/55 is the AK47, and this is more of the AK74 ;)

@@andrewreegs6319 agreed. Good call.

cwispy

Polish T-72M. Kinda T-72A but license made in Poland by the Bumar Łabendy Company. I mean not the one in the video. The one from the picture. The one shown in the video is from the Polish Army as well.

They have plenty of tanks now thanks to farmers with tractors

@@Extraordinarylurker "they have been doing surprisingly well" got any proofs beyond twitter screeching?

@@Klovaneer you are a clown if you don't know that Russia has lost 500 tanks in combat.

@@williamgaston9812 This comes from what? Ukrainian Ministry? Ever heard of Propaganda going both sides? ever heard of edited videos? ever heard that even if a Tank gets hit directly its probably not even disabled? Critical thinking, Massive lack of that today.

@@littledeath6432 Actually Ukrainian numbers seem to be close to reality. They are doing good job, no need to lie

yeah :- ) only a Zippo keeps working

More like an exploding cigar.. The Sherman was the "zippo" because of the gasoline.

Be fun to try !

If their current logistics problems are anything to go by, the chances of them getting three T-72's in the same place aren't that great.

Competent enough?

That moment when those 3 T-72s run up on a company of NATO troops armed with javelins

not all machinery, but tank is a word of masculine gender

A condom is he or she? :)

@@ldkbudda4176 its a masculine word, also a degragatory name for someone

Electric Avenue?

We've also seen leopard 2s throwing not only the turrets but also their front glacis off the second they met combat but i suppose that isn't as funny to ignorant people like you. T-64 that ukrainians are trying to operate break turret throwing distance records every week.

@@Klovaneer - "i" by itself should be capitalized. You're showing off your ignorance. Even after editing your response.

@@BA-gn3qb Thankfully the subject of the video isn't grammar. I suppose you don't have a reasonable explanation for the leopard debacle then.

@@Klovaneer - Since the subject of the video is the T-72, your ignorance is even more amazing. That old saying is true. You can't fix stupid.

as if ukrainians arent using the same sort of tanks

good to hear

They are poppig like a teenagers acne

They seem to be preferring the 'Cabriolet' variant as the nights are getting warmer 💙💛🇺🇦

A lot of them are yours as well so don't be too harsh on them.

you're seeing what they are showing you the same few tanks filmed from a hundred angles.