There are more than 2,000 T-72 tanks (in three versions) in service in the Indian Army. In the 1980s the production of the same started at Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi, Chennai. In 1978, India ordered 500 T-72, T-72M, and T-72M1 tanks directly from USSR. The Soviet-built the T-72 tank was selected after many trials. In the 1970s, the Indian Army wanted to replace its Centurion and Vijayanta main battle tanks. It has an overall length of 6.91 m, overall height of 2.19 m and overall width of 3.58 m. The tank can negotiate fording depths to 1.2 m without preparation and snorkels can be fitted for fording to a depth of 5 m. Its range on roads with the main fuel tank is 500 km. The tank has a road speed of 60 km/h and 35 km/h on dry earth roads. It has a planetary transmission with hydraulic servo-control system, running gear with RMSH track and torsion bar suspension with hydraulic shock absorbers. The T-72 is powered by a V12 liquid-cooled, four-stroke multi-fuel diesel engine that develops 840 hp. The T-72 has been exported to Algeria, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary, India, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Syria and Yugoslavia. The T-72 first entered production in 1972 and an estimated 50,000 have been built. The Russian T-72 main battle tank was produced at the Malyshev HMB Plant in Kharkov, Ukraine, and at UKBM Nizhny Tagil, Russian Federation and produced under licence in a number of countries. Let’s have a look at the various tanks that our army possesses currently. The Indian army uses various types of tanks. These provide good mobility on various terrains and in various conditions including mud, snow and ice, where a wheeled vehicle would not be able to perform as efficiently. This is supplemented by machine guns or other ranged weapons including anti-tank guided missiles or rocket launchers. They are equipped with a large-caliber tank gun mounted in a rotating gun turret.
Tanks are heavily armoured mobile platforms for land weapons. It uses many types of vehicles for combat.
India has one of the strongest armies in the world.
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