The original was taken from a colleague of altyn73 in T-72BA tanks of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan
T-72BA tank from the 12th mechanized Brigade of the 40th military base of the Regional Command "South" of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan at the parade in Astana (now Nur-Sultan) on May 7, 2015.
Modernization of T-72B tanks to the level of T-72BA was carried out at the Uralvagonzavod enterprise in 1998-2005. Among other things, the updated tanks received a new caterpillar with a parallel rubber-metal hinge (RMSh) from the T-90 tank, which is seriously different from the previous one.
T-72BA tank of the tank battalion of the 23rd Motorized Rifle Brigade (formerly the 81st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division)
According to known data, by 2005, the 81st Motorized Rifle and 152nd tank regiments of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division, the 276th motorized Rifle and 239th tank regiments of the 34th Motorized Rifle Division were armed with T-72BA tanks - a total of eight tank battalions. After repeated reorganization and rearmament measures, in 2021 T-72BA tanks remained only in two battalions - in the 488th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division (the heir of the 276th motorized rifle Regiment) and in the 21st motorized Rifle Brigade (the heir of the 152nd tank regiment). There are several single copies in the tank battalions of the 90th Tank Division, the 35th and 60th motorized rifle brigades. Where did six more battalions of updated T-72BA tanks go?
On May 7, 2015, at the parade in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana (now Nur-Sultan), T-72BA tanks were shown for the first time, but what is noteworthy is that they had OLD-style tracks.
in all the pictures I know (some of them below) of Kazakh T-72B tanks, the tracks of the OLD model.
Judging by the numbering, there are now six tank battalions in Kazakhstan, out of the thirteen available, armed with T-72BA tanks. Just six "missing" battalions from the Russian troops.
The new tracks were most likely replaced with the old ones before being shipped to Kazakhstan in 2015-2016. And the removed tracks were already being used to man the newly upgraded T-72B3 tanks. That's my version.
By the way, the 35th Motorized Rifle Brigade also has a T-72BA tank on old tracks.
