![]() ![]() While the UVZ knew their new model could survive against most foreign tanks, being a "T-72" meant nobody wanted it. The disastrous performance of the Iraqi army in Desert Storm in early 1991 with the total destruction of T-72s in Iraqi service by M1A1 and Challenger 2 tanks with no confirmed friendly losses turned any T-72 offered for sale into a drug on the market. ![]() They dubbed the new Article 188 tank the T-72BM (for modified, but it was also called T-72BU for "usovershenyy" or "improved") and prepared to offer it to the government for acceptance and foreign sales in 1990. In 1989 the Ural Railway Wagon Building Factory (Uralvagonzavod) under its chief designer, Vladimir Potkin, reworked their T-72B design to both add built-in second generation reactive armor and the new "Shtora-1" active protection defense system among other modifications. Mô tả As I noted a while back with the Zvezda T-90 kit, timing, as the advertising men say, is everything. ![]()
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