T-72

So that's, that's pretty, that's pretty cool.

And like, yeah, the tank's accessible, but like I saw tanks coming out straight away, but because they're slower, you can kill them more easily with the stingray drones.

It's like, I actually can kind of see all the counters like working.

And because there's only a few extra things, but I can feel, I can feel it filling out.

I'm like, ah, it's nice.

Like, the little spice here and there.

Like, I'm really enjoying it, even though people are complaining about how fast progression is and how we saw tanks on day one and stuff.

But, like, I'm much more kind of, like, whatever, you know? It's okay.

Like I've talked to one special forces guy where the Taliban were taking over this town in northern Afghanistan and.

and there the Taliban had like a T-72 or T-55 tank that was flying a Taliban black flag cruising around the city and he could not get authorization to do an airstrike on this tank so what are we doing here guys

yeah like this is obvious

yeah so it's stuff like that like you know there was times in the war where You know, they would our soldiers would take enemy gunfire from a building and they simply would not authorize airstrikes on that building.

Black, um, because, you know, my, my first night here, I got to meet this, this gentleman from Chechia and it turns out that he was a tanker, uh, during the Soviet Union.

And, you know, my tank doctrine and my training was to fight against the T-72 tank and against the Soviet Union.

His was to fight against the US.

And then here we are sharing a hunting camp together.

Go out, get training, get medical training.

If you're a dead Wolverine, if you're aardvark on the T-70, not T-72, and you get blown up because you're too stupid to jump off the tank, you deserve to die.

And that's all we have to say to you tonight.

Dusky, yeah, Modern Warfare 2, we didn't know how good we had it.

Algerian troops will be deployed at Niger's energy sites to protect shared energy and economic interests.

The Times of India reports that the vehicle factory Jabalpur has decoded Soviet-era blueprints to rebuild India's T-72 and T-90 battle tanks.

The VFJ has decoded nearly 70% of Soviet-era drawings for specialized fixtures used to dismantle and rebuild battle tanks.

The factory is developing domestically built designs for those fixtures, whose drawings are unavailable.

The ex-Yugoslav members of NATO, including Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, as well as Albania, have donated their old arms to Ukraine, where those Soviet-era weapons fit Ukraine's arsenal.

Croatia, for example, has also refurbished M-84 tanks, which were the Yugoslav version of the Soviet T-72, and which came from Kuwait for Ukraine.

The European Union members Croatia and Slovenia are also part of NATO, which has led the two countries to adapt to their alliance commitments and systems.

About 3,000 people are employed in the defense sector in Croatia, which produces some €600 million worth of kit, including pistols, rifles, helmets, robotics, and demining equipment.

about.

You bought a T-72.

Thanks for playing.

I wish, because at least you need fewer friends for that one.

90% of what we talk about, like 95% of what we talk about, I'd say less percentage on LGH.

But for us, Most of what we talk about is just what we're passionate about, what we enjoy talking about.

Like when you ding-dongs let me rattle on about Sam's for 45 minutes, and then last week when I wasn't here, you let Sam rattle on about T-72s the entire show.

We talk about what we like to talk about, and when companies interact with us and they

Exactly.

You know, I got in a lot of trouble when I worked at National Interest, which is a defense magazine here, a year ago, and I said that the greatest tank in the world was the T-72.

Not because it's...

Not because it's so much more advanced.

This is a grainy, sped up, cut up, loud and proud combat highlight tape released to social media by a Ukrainian military brigade.

In the picture are Russian T-72 B3M tanks, a refurbished and revamped Cold War staple that Russia has come to rely on during their invasion of Ukraine.

All three are doomed, about to be put out of commission by the author of this video, the 79th Air Assault Brigade, a highly trained but highly outgunned subset of the Ukrainian defense effort.

The unit deals with all three tanks through conventional means, weapons and approaches that have more or less been around since World War II.

But in more than six months of trying and 14 coordinated efforts to break through, Russia's been rebuked because of brave, well-trained soldiers and because drones.

In fact, most of these thwarted efforts play out in a strikingly similar manner to the earlier clip.

Just 11 days prior to the 79th releasing the video of the three ill-fated T-72s, they posted this video, and nine days prior to that, they posted this one.

In each, drones, like Ukraine itself, are punching far above their commercial-grade weight, and they've been doing so since the very first days of the invasion.