Biggest Problem With Russia's Main Battle Tank

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“The tank was originally invented to clear the way for the infantry in the teeth of machine gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.” Winston Churchill

The main disadvantage of having limited elevation on the gun is that T-72s are at even greater disadvantage when fighting in hilly or mountainous terrain. The tank 'hull down' position enables any tank to be able to fire over hills like sitting behind a fence and only your head and gun showing. The hull of the tank cannot be hit by direct fire because of the hill that is in the way. However, T-72s cannot get into such a 'hull down' position because of the limited elevation of their gun. So they have to move closer to the crest of the hill, revealing more of themselves to direct enemy fire. Most if not all Soviet era built tanks suffer from this deficiency. This helped the Israeli Armed Forces to defeat numerous enemy tanks during the Six Days' War in hilly or mountainous terrain.

T-72, T-90 and T-90A are practically the same as far as safety is concerned. Also the crew survivability was not totally ditched. It's just that the construction is so effin old that it doesn't have some of the safety features of later tank developments. Don't forget that this construction is derived from the T-64, which means that it's base has been laid down in the 50s, which means that the height of safety was trying to not get hit, hence the flat profine, and ammo concentrated at the bottom of the tank if possible. It's construction contemporaries are not the Leopard 2 and Abrams, but M48 and M60, which really aren't that much safer. If someone is surprised that the tanks are falling to weapons specifically made to counter them and 40 years younger then they really shouldn't be. T-72B3 didn't have the Arena APS as standard AFAIK. There was a lot of talk about development, but how many thanks actually got it I dare not say.

You should make a video on all the stuff that have happened in Russia recently

1. Create a cheap tank without good fighting abilities 2. Mass produce the tank 3. Hide the flaws from other nations 4. Sell the tanks for a heafty profit Idiot Move: Rely on a century old tank and ignore the shortcomings, because numbers go high and people think more tanks more victory.

Tanks cannot survive without infantry support.

10:50 - Read up on Formula 1 and other racing cars before the 1970s. Fuel tanks were all around the drivers, and a crash could turn them into a roman candle, or a barbeque. Today's race cars have fuel tanks that are hard to damage (kevlar and rubber bladders). The Russians have apparently not learnt anything.

I'm a humble man from Czech Republic 🇨🇿, it warms my heart, seeing Russian military equipment and soldiers being destroyed! Sláva Ukrajině 🇺🇦

These tanks are very good at fulfilling their primary role as moving targets.

I love the turret toss compellations... Found one turret in the 8th floor of a building it launched so high.

Change the channel name from infographics to russianwargraphic... Seems like their creative team sits all day watching the news...

I wonder how many soldiers Russia would lose in this war

The Infographics Show After effects team must be crunching extra hard to make a video on Prigojin's little outing.

Even though the T-72 is pretty bad, the Russians are gonna wish having a T-72 instead of a T-54 ;-;

The 3rd largest air force in Ukraine is the T-72. The biggest problem of any Russian tank is going into Ukraine. Mistakes were made 💙💛

Eleven minutes and forty six seconds on what can be summed up in 5 words: "IT'S A PIECE OF JUNK"

A little while ago the biggest problem was that they were heading to Moscow 😂

4:13 "I have no idea what is going on, I'm just happy to be here!"

You should make a video about what’s been happening with Wagner recently