The Soviet (Russian) T-72 tank would be best suited for the third world war, if it began several decades ago. A similar point of view on the YouTube channel Military History Not Visualized was expressed by Jens Wehner and Bernard Kast from the Military History Museum Dresden (Germany).
“In the 1970s, it was quite promising compared to the tanks that NATO had at that time, for example, the German Leopard I with very light armor protection or the American M60 tanks,” Venus quotes RIA Novosti.
According to the expert, the T-72 armor could provide reliable protection against the damaging effects of a nuclear explosion and the consequences of the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons. Werner is confident that the Soviet tank combined high firepower with proper maneuverability and speed.
In October 2019, the acting chief of the 47th military mission Dmitry Repin said that the Russian T-72 tank in the same year at Uralvagonzavod began to upgrade to the T-72B3 version, which is distinguished by Russian thermal imagers.
In February, military expert Aleksey Khlopotov said that the Russian main tank T-72B3 is inferior in its capabilities to the Ukrainian modernized T-64BV, and if the second combat vehicle is considered a “tank for the poor”, then the first one will turn out to be “a tank for the poor.”
