{"id":30685,"date":"2025-03-09T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T02:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30685"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:55:25","slug":"t-72-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/t-72-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"T-72 Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>T-72 Tank Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence on Friday signed a contract with Rosoboronexport (RoE), Russian Federation, worth $248 million for procurement of 1000 Horsepower Engines for T-72 Tanks in fully formed, completely knocked down and semi knocked down conditions.<\/p>\n<h2>About T-72 Tank<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T-72 is a <\/strong>mainstay of tank fleet of the Indian Army which is at present fitted with<strong> 780 HP Engine. <\/strong>Equipping the existing fleet of T-72 Tanks with <strong>1000 HP Engine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The T-72, a Soviet-designed main battle tank, has been a cornerstone of many armed forces since its introduction in 1971.<\/li>\n<li>Designed by Uralvagonzavod in the <strong>Soviet Union<\/strong>, T-72 tanks are locally manufactured and upgraded in India at the Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi.<\/li>\n<li>The tank is provided with high-accuracy laying and sighting materiel, and with an automatic loading gear ensuring high effective rate of gun fire.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The T-72 has greater mobility as its 780 hp engine appears to be remarkably smoke-free and smooth-running, having eliminated the excessive vibration.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The T-72 has better armour protection due to the use of layered armor.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The tank is fitted with a 125mm D-81 smoothbore gun, a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun and a 12.7mm air defence machine gun mounted on the commander\u2019s cupola.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The T-72 carries 44 rounds of 125 mm ammunition, 22 rounds of which are carried on an automatic loading carousel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>T-72 Tank FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. How many T-72 does India have?<\/p>\n<p>Ans: India has 2,418 T-72M1, 156 VT-72B, and some bridgelayer vehicles as of 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What are the features of the T-72 tank?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The tank is fitted with a 125mm D-81 smoothbore gun, a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun and a 12.7mm air defence machine gun mounted on the commander&#8217;s cupola.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is T-72A good tank?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>The T-72 is the most widely used main battle tank in the world. It has been manufactured in six countries, is in service with the armies of 35 nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/ministry-of-defence-signs-248-mn-deal-with-rosoboronexport-for-procurement-of-engines-for-t-72-tanks-for-indian-army\/articleshow\/118787474.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-72 tank is a tracked fighting vehicle having powerful armament, reliable armor protection and high mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}