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Originally Posted by Suhiir
From various photos (and export data) the T-72M's purchased by Iraq from Russia did not have smoke discharges.
However, apparently the Iraqi upgrade to the "Lion Of Babylon" version added them.
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Suhiir, those in the pictures are almost certainly the ex hungarian T-72s Iraq purchased a few years ago, rather than those which were purchased/assembled under Saddam. Neverthless a lot of pre 2003 iraqi T-72s sported smoke dischargers, so mine is just an academic point.
Here is one for example.
In regards to the specific versions. T-72M1 has smoke discharges by default.The T-72M is more murky as some do not have them and some apparently do (if they are in fact M), that's the sort of things manufacturers love to tinker with so it is hard to be 100%sure.
Unfortunately I am not familiar with the operation of the Type 902 series of smoke dischargers used on T-72s, so I have no idea if there are multiple firing options, but salvo fire is the norm with such systems.
Here is for example a description of the M250 smoke grenade launcher (mounted on the Abrams) operations, as can be found
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Pressing one of two push switches in the turret sends an electrical charge to the dischargers. Dischargers are wired to fire grenades from alternate barrels. Pressing one push switch launches a salvo of six grenades (three from each discharger). Pressing both switches launches a salvo of twelve grenades
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