Image source: Photo: Bravery2004
At the beginning of the noughties, Ukrainian gunsmiths offered foreign customers a combat vehicle that looks very much like the Russian T-90S of the first releases.
However, it was not about new tanks, but about the modernization of equipment inherited from the Soviet Army.
The model created in Kiev, which received the designation T-72UMG, also had a built-in dynamic protection "Contact-5", similar day and night sights, a closed remote-controlled installation of a 12.7-mm machine gun" Utes", an 840-horsepower V-84 engine.
Image source: Photo: Bravery2004
At one time, 20 years ago, one of the representatives of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex assured the author of these lines that this tank is no worse than the "nineties", only much cheaper, and predicted good export prospects for it.
He was taken to Algeria, but the local military preferred to deal with Russian manufacturers.
Turkmenistan was more fortunate, whose army acquired a small batch of such modernized "seventy-second", but the large-scale contract expected by the Kievans was never concluded.
Lev Romanov
