T-72

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Soviet T-72 main battle tank, with a 125-millimetre gun. A snorkel is mounted for submerged fording.

T-72

Soviet tank

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…and ’80s by the T-64, T-72, and T-80, all with 125-mm smoothbore guns. The JS-3 and T-10 heavy tanks with their less powerful 122-mm guns had by then been withdrawn. This left the Soviet army in the same position as others of having a single type of battle tank as…
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…and ’80s by the T-64, T-72, and T-80, all with 125-mm smoothbore guns. The JS-3 and T-10 heavy tanks with their less powerful 122-mm guns had by then been withdrawn. This left the Soviet army in the same position as others of having a single type of battle tank as…
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