Here are some "new" pics to get things started:
M60A1 fitted with "new" reactive armor on parade.
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Shot at 2011-03-01
T-72S is a full-tracked fighting vehicle with powerful armaments, reliable armour protection and high maneuverability. The tank carries three crew. This tank is equipped with a 125 mm smooth-bore gun stabilized in elevation and azimuth, a coaxial 7.62 mm PKT machine gun and a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun. The tank is provided with high-accuracy laying and sighting devices, as well as an automatic loading gear ensuring highly effective rate of gun fire.
The anti-aircraft machine gun is provided with sighting and laying equipment that makes it possible to fire both at aerial and ground targets. The tank is also equipped with a dynamic protection system improving its protection against hollow-charged projectile. T-72S is equipped with devices designed to protect the crew and inner equipment from shock wave in case of a nuclear explosion as well as against radioactive dust when moving over a contaminated terrain. The tank is provided with the underwater stream-crossing and entrenching equipment ( the latter being designed for cuts digging ) as well as the means to protect it against napalm-type incendiary fuels. Provisions are also made for installation of the tread mine sweeper used for making passages in mine fields . To ensure concealment, the tank carries smoke-generating equipment and smoke grenade launching system. To extinguish fire inside the tank, the latter is equipped with fire fighting system.
T-72S fitted with slat armor on parade.
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Shot at 2011-03-01
Z-1 on static display.
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Shot at 2011-03-01
T-72(S)
...in use in IRGC armored units from the Kerman province
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Safir-74/T-72Z (i.e. upgraded T-54/55)
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Here's some more pictures of armor from the parade, nice camo btw:
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Topic: Iranian T-72's (two good articles about T-72S and T-72Z) (Read 2725 times)