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Along with the outdated T-72M1S, the upgraded T-72M1RS were also sent from Poland to Ukraine. These tanks have received a number of improvements, including night thermal imaging sights.
However, there are only a couple dozen of them out of more than two hundred pieces, and some secret equipment was removed from these tanks, like an automated command and control system, which is simply useless in Ukrainian realities.
These tanks were rightly criticized for poor security, which corresponds to the level of the late 70s. The Polish industry did not equip them with dynamic protection, since at present the possibility of its production in this country has simply been lost.
However, recently, somewhere in the area of the front line, a small column of tanks was spotted, among which just one T-72M1R with a recently mounted dynamic protection "Contact" was lit up. It was reported that Czechoslovak specialists allegedly provided assistance in such revision. It is worth noting that in its very first version, this, as it is also called "reactive armor" in the West, is powerless against armor-piercing projectiles and is easily overcome by tandem warheads of anti-tank guided missiles and rocket-propelled grenades. In addition, judging by the reports, the APU received very few such modified tanks, and most of them rush into battle in their original form, which is why there are significant losses.
