Syrian T-72 with an unusual booking scheme
Experts drew attention to a very unusual car booking scheme. Instead of lattice screens typical of Syria, this tank has solid armored plates mounted at an angle in the front upper part of the hull, on the turret and sides. An extra steel box welded to a very vulnerable lower frontal hull detail (NLD), which the Syrians, as a rule, fill with sand and gravel. During the fighting, it happened that the militants' rocket grenades hit the driver through NLD. Thanks to the designated modernization, this threat is minimized, as was demonstrated by the incident with the defeat of the tank ATGM.
With 2015, the year has developed in Syria unique situation: government forces in the fight against terrorists use almost all modifications of Russian tanks T-72 and T-90, this was not observed in any military conflict. The Syrian army began to receive tanks T-72 (export version) "Ural-1" with an optical sight-rangefinder TPD-2-49 at the beginning of the 80-s. Compared with the machines in service with the Soviet army, they were made in a simpler and, accordingly, cheaper version. Then, T-72M, T-72М1 and T-72А appeared in Syria. The main difference from the original version was the use of the TPDK-1 laser sight-rangefinder on them, which significantly increased the shooting accuracy. In addition, there were other innovations, such as a modernized gun and smoke grenade launchers on T-72М1 and T-72А. Around the same time, Russian tanks T-90А appeared in Syria. A little later, the active participation of T-72B in combat operations against terrorists was recorded, and in the area of Syrian Aleppo Russian T-90 1992 samples of the year were observed.
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