First I would say please go to
Page 28 Post 274 Item A1 then go to
Page 30 Post 299 and look at the previous shorter posts that proceeded
299 and note the dates of each.
WHY? Because of the following ref. which even with my "bad" eye I can see a repeat of that event coming. Someone will come across this ref. or similar and get all excited that the Russians are getting an upgraded
T-72B3M/B4 tank. Well I hope you looked at data from those posts very closely, because, the mod I just mentioned from the below ref.
is no different then the data we had for the
T-72B3 when submitted two years ago. So unless Don wants to do a name change here, the "
new"
T-72B3M/B4/or T-72B4 is the same as the
T-72B3 that incorporated all of the improvements mentioned below and a couple of more not mentioned below. However I have no faith in that I "
short circuited" a repeat of the above events from Dec. 2014.
http://www.armyrecognition.com/march..._12003162.html
The simple breakdown (Before I have one.) 
is...
1. Late 2012 data received on the upgraded T-72 to be called T-72B3.
2. Investigated, researched then submitted in Mar. 2013 to become UNIT 697 in the Russian OOB.
3. The controversy appears in Dec. 2013, all is resolved.
4. Somewhere along the line T-72B3 has become the T-72B3M.
5. Now we have the T-72B3M that's also the T-72B4 better known as the T-72B3M/B4 (PLEASE SOMEBODY SHOOT ME NOW! 
)
6. Maybe the name change isn't such a bad idea now!?! It was almost harder to keep it straight the second time around as the first time above!?!
But whatever we call it,
IT'S THE SAME TANK WITH THE SAME CAPABILITIES AND UPGRADES.
Someone will still do it anyway.
Regards,
Pat
