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Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP
Wasn't T72M the export one?
Were all t72 sold by russia to other countries designated "M" or "S"?(other than license built ones such as M-84 Degmen, produced on croatia)
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OTOH the export T-72s came in the following variants.
1) Basic T-72: cast steel turret, optical rangefinder, made available since 1979.
2) T-72M: improved variant with LRF, new more accurate gun etc. Apparently it came in several subvariants with differences in items like glacis configuration, ammo capacity, presence of smoke dischargers etc. Most common export variant
3) T-72M1: essentially T-72M with better armor (composite turret, reinforced glacis)
4) T-72S: export variant of the T-72B, made available at the end of the cold war.