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# T-72 - Original version, optical range-finder.

# T-72A - Added side skirts, additional armour, laser range-finder, electronic fire control system, smoke grenade launchers.

# T-72B - Thicker armour, composite armour in front of turret and front of hull. AT-11 "Svir" laser-guided antitank missile capability. Has the thickened frontal turret armor and is commonly known in the United States as the Dolly Parton.

# T-72AV, T-72BV - models with early Kontakt explosive reactive armour ("V" for vzryvnoi ‘explosive’).

# T-72B1 - T-72B without ATGM capability.

# T-72BK - Command version of T-72B, recognizable by having multiple radio antennas.

# T-72B(M) - T-72B equipped with advanced Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armour, composite armour in sides of turret as well.

# T-72M - Soviet export version, similar to T-72A (built also in Poland and ex-Czechoslovakia).

# T-72M1 - Soviet export version, with thicker armour (built also in Poland and ex-Czechoslovakia).