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T-72

Main battle tank · Land · Uralvagonzavod · Soviet Union

Wikidata: Soviet main battle tank

Operators among the 24
4
Active, across the 24
1,611
On order, across the 24
0
In service since
1973

Catalogue entry

Designation
T-72
First flight or launch
–
In service
1973
Retired
–
Generation
2
Unit cost (US dollars)
not published in Wikidata
Manufacturers
Uralvagonzavod
Also seen as
Engineering and bridging
Wikidata classes
combat vehicle family
Identifiers
Q155658 · factbase.org/sys/5A0S9KM907 · Wikipedia

Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.

Variants

Operators

Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.

NationActiveReserveOn orderVariants
Russia1,000
Ukraine520
United States86
South Korea5

Transfers

Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.

1977: 8151978: 1011979: 28961982: 12501985: 101986: 601991: 591992: 1741993: 321994: 841995: 21996: 1002001: 622003: 322005: 762012: 1002019: 622020: 30197719992020max 2,896
SIPRI-recorded deliveries of T-72 by year

Recipients: Syria (1,250), India (820), Czechoslovakia (815), Poland (759), East Germany (551), Iraq (550), Finland (167), Hungary (138), Libya (125), Algeria (121), Bulgaria (100), Mongolia (100), United States (86), Armenia (84), Uganda (62), Serbia (61), Georgia (60), Yemen (32), Romania (31), North Macedonia (31), Sierra Leone (2).

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