The T72 is one of the most successful tank designs in history it had so many upgrades and variants and even the T90 can be considered a highly upgraded T72, not only that but it's low profile and rugged design makes it look like a no nonsense war machine. It's such an iconic tank design.

@nelsoncheng2674

2 ай бұрын

Russian bias. Nothing else.

@annguyenlehoang7779

2 ай бұрын

The only complain is it reserve gear is bad . maybe because soviet doctrine is different other than that a good tank design

@black_thunder2159

2 ай бұрын

​@@annguyenlehoang7779 this isn't really the case of "tank doctrine", this is a design choice to simplify, and also create a tank specifically to be a very very low profile design. just remember, the day T-64 entered service, only the AMX-30 & Leopard 1 have more than one reverse gear, being fast in reverse is a relatively new concept for main battle tanks at the time. the issue with 1 reverse gear is that this isn't enforced by the soviet higher-ups, it is because this is the largest transmission they can fit without increasing the height of the hull or engine compartment. u can immediately see this in Chinese ZTZ99A tank, their engine deck is absolutely massive, that's because they put a transmission that have multiple reverse gears, much like Western Tanks, which are generally very tall. the T-72 tanks was accepted into Soviet service because its fits the criteria, low profile, & cheaper price, which the 2nd option aren't present in the T-64 design. does this make Soviet T series tanks a bad design? not at all, it works at what its trying to do, low profile, heavily armored, autoloaded, & easy to produce line of tanks. this is really depends on what do you seek or what a country needs of its tank design, no matter what you do, there will always be flaws or a corner to be cut to fit the requirement as much as it can.

@annguyenlehoang7779

2 ай бұрын

@@black_thunder2159 damn thank you so much i learn so much from your reply man . whenever i ask people around they just simply said soviet poor or soviet doctrine so thats all i know for . never know more deep history in it . thanks so much

@hugo8851

2 ай бұрын

@@black_thunder2159 The fact that western MBTs cant aim at a target behind them because their engine hall is so tall feels like a design flaw. Another point I always think about is that most tank drivers can't see what is behind them unless the tank has a rear view camera so why would you want to go backwards extremely fast anyway.

I remember a video you made a while ago, where you went over small and new KZreadrs, think you could do that again. Would really like to see what new creators have popped up

@valtereideholm1551

2 ай бұрын

Or any smaller creators, like ArmoredPotato, BPA Jon, WeBe, Aussie aardvark or AmoredAvocado

Amazing tank, has a great lineup around it. I’d give the T-72 an 8/10, Pros: - half decent mobility - good shell - amazing survivability - small profile - has almost no issue when getting up tiered to 10.3 (a semi-frequent occurrence) - an entire 9.3 (T-64A, Obj 775, 2S25) lineup with 9.0 tanks that can be easily up tiered (T-62-M1 BMP-3) Cons: - average Russian cons (no rev gear, poor gun handling, no depression) If you’re a Russia main though, the cons of the Russian vehicles are something you just get used to. Fits perfectly in the 9.7 Russian lineup as a backup, starts to fall off in a 10.0 lineup if you get 11.0 games. (Just use the T-72Bs)

@thecursed01

2 ай бұрын

only occasionally up to 10.3? is that on american servers? i gave up playing 9.3. wa sannoyied. started writing down. 30 battles 9.3 21 were against 10.3 6 against 10.0 only 3 lower

@Optimusprime56241

2 ай бұрын

Really good reload for the BR as well, every other tank has a crappy 105 with the slow reload

@SovyetPotato

2 ай бұрын

@@thecursed01 i’ve seen a handful of 10.3 but usually I seem to get 9.7-10.0 most frequently, with some 8.7 and every now and then an 8.3. When the 292 was introduced I saw a lot more up tiers to 10.3, but they haven’t been super frequent

@thecursed01

2 ай бұрын

@@SovyetPotato what Server are you usually on? Us, eu or cis?

@SovyetPotato

2 ай бұрын

@@thecursed01 US

didn't expect to see a video of this old gem.

I always carry a few HE with this one, hits hard on light tanks and even MBTs

It really is fantastic at 9.3. Russias “just under top tier” line ups are probably the most fun.

Just unlocked this puppy. Very exited to bring it out.

About the type16 fps and the xm1 their apfsds M735 was apparently nerfed by accident or something but gaijin doesn't care to fix it

Tankenstain can u do a vid with the t55am-1 and mig 15 bis ish also i think the t72 is good but i have no fun playing it

It's definitely one of the best 3 9.3 MBTs, but IDK if I'd put it over the Merkava Mk.2 or the Olifant Mk.2. If you don't need to reverse nor aim down, it might be the best.

This, the Moderna, T-80B and T-80BVM and maybe the T-90M are the only tanks that are bearable in top tier brs

@CrustaceanAllergyEnjoyer

2 ай бұрын

What is wrong with t72b3, t80u, t90a? They are alright

@blacktor1278

2 ай бұрын

@@CrustaceanAllergyEnjoyer i just rather more survivable and agile tanks, like any LEO or Type 10/90

@dragonbank6807

2 ай бұрын

Obj 292 do be super fun too

It is a well balanced tank in firepower, armor and mobility just like an MBT should be

@nakolulu411

Ай бұрын

Yea but its 9.3 so in a downtier you are pretty much almost unkillable if the enemy arent side shotting you or not german

You sould do a review for the tam2ip in modern war thunder

One of the best in that br 9.3 brings great battles

@carti9248

2 ай бұрын

I rarely get 9.3 games in it, even with just the t72a in a lineup I still get uptiered to 10,3 almost every game.

@austinteal3645

Ай бұрын

​@@carti9248 Thats just the snail f***in u :/ idk mann

That crazy ass police camouflage always cracks me up

T-64B next?

Can't really comment on vehicle itself as i only reached 6.7 on russians but it seems pretty good but again you make all tanks look good as you are experient so

funny thing is the east german t72 is a tiny bit better, since its exactly the same except you get the extra hull armour as stock

That extra plate saves this tank lol

3:05 the difference between playing us and russian tanks is that first target doesnt get 1 shotted and hides, then the second guy u killed 1 shots u with the shot u bounced

Yeah, this thing is a reason why I can no longer just pick up T-62-M-1 every time I feel like giving some payback to the T-55-M-1 premium clubbers

I bought T-72AV turms after i got the 292 and i love that tank, i also have full 9.3 german lineup with T-72M1 and I love using that one too. Im almost to the tech tree russian ones. The T-72 is the AK of tanks imo. Is it the best, no. Is it the worst, no. It's good enough, yes.

The T-72A is the only T-72 that I like. Because at 9.3 its flaws are not as noticeable unlike at 10.0 or God forbid 11.3 where other tanks will generally have a larger advantage over you even with the upgrades to the T-72. This is not to mention the flaw of all Russian mbts as in that Good players would never even shoot at your heavily armored places because if you look at the protection analysis for all the Russian mbts and use an average shell like 3BM42 you would notice a pattern... Also I forgot about the moderna, yeah I love that thing

@nelsoncheng2674

2 ай бұрын

T80 fuel tank eats entire sabot rounds. Keep talking trash about how it’s a skill issue. Its unfair. Not to mention the fact that armor delays the time for enemies to make an effective response by dozens of milliseconds which is enough for the biased tank to shoot the unbiased armor of the victims.

@cabbageashthe1st594

2 ай бұрын

@@nelsoncheng2674 yeah. It is a skill Issue. I don't have those problems fighting Russia at top tier with other nations. There is no other way of saying it, just shoot better.

The cope is strong in RU tech tree.

The fact that I still use Turms in higher ranking battles means the platform is really something.

Now play it's Chinese counterpart: the ZTZ96 at 9.3. it's basically this but... with 8km/h of reverse so it's already better.

@DaSteeJ07

2 ай бұрын

The round is just a little bit more lackluster and less armor

@LockeOG

2 ай бұрын

And it gets a WAY better sabot.

Gepard is Cheetah on german :)

I GUARANTEE if i get this it'll be the same as normal. 2-3 minutes to drive to the fight followed by 'BOOM' dead in one shot followed by a lock out of using the thing for 10 minutes to just repeat!

My dream

Type 16 fps does need to be buffed cause it’s shell suck. It’s at the same br as the 105 rooikat that has dm33

MFW the 9.3 T72 has a better dart than a 10.3 Abrams Type 16 uses the same APFSDS as most of the US tanks around this BR that got nerfed, M735, a whole 292 mm of pen for some of the USA MBT and the Type 16/Type 74... Then they get the astounding power of the M775, with 372mm of pen.

@LockeOG

2 ай бұрын

what crack are you smoking? it uses the shitty early darts, look at the ricochet angles and performance tapers off massively at >60 degrees (where it actually matters, since most stuff is angled.)

I use the Hungarian T-72M1 at top tier and still do decently well

@quan-uo5ws

2 ай бұрын

I mean if you are good any tank with stabilizator and apfsds will do good at top tier

@Barish2

2 ай бұрын

I think the t72a and the t72 turms thing get the same shell

@Lexus-fo3ey

2 ай бұрын

​@@Barish2 no the Turms has a better round it can carry 3bm42 and the A can only carry 3bm22

Gepard = cheetah ^^

T64 and ztz96 at same BR with better armour more or less and better rounds

If you think the T-72 is almost OP, just wait until you see the T64B... still going strong!

@maxwellmaragia2272

2 ай бұрын

Ooh boy. t64b, t64a, t72a, 2S25, bmp3, obj 775, Khrizantema-S, Mi-24P, Su-7BKL and not to forget the Strela-10M2 was 9.3 before US mains cried and begged and pleaded with gaijin to move it up. Soviet 9.7 lineup is amazing but the many uptiers are rough

@hellohelloington9442

2 ай бұрын

@@maxwellmaragia2272 honestly, i almost exclusively use the T-64B despite having russian top tier and i've never had issues with it. it's a solid platform, even in an uptier, especially if you know how to use it. i've even used it at top tier in the past and it still performs mostly fine.

Does 9.3 tend to get downtiered a lot?

@g.s.863

2 ай бұрын

In my experience 9.3 doesn’t get a lot of downtiers, but it also doesn’t get many uptiers. You usually fight things at your br

@russman3787

Ай бұрын

It's all 10.3 uptiers against Leopard 2A4s

i really hate playing this vehicle. I'd rather have less armor and pen to have more mobility and to be able to retreat, that's not happening with any russian tank, hence i hate it

A gepard is an animal. It belongs to the big cat family. Like a leopard

It just speaks how crazy insane Russian bias is in this game, and those people defending it are just straight up crazy.

gepard is cheetah in german

Gepard is literally the same thing as Gepard in English 😂

A L M O S T

I am not a huge fan of the t 72 I tend to run into the problem that the real-life tanks have where my turret joins the russian space program.

i prefer T64

"Gepard, whatever Gerpard means" - mark of US school system quality.

@kentoncompton3009

2 ай бұрын

* try not to rag on Americans for *ANY* reason whatsoever * OP: *IMPOSSIBLE*

@Faded._

2 ай бұрын

Europeans trying not to subjugate people (IMPOSSIBLE)

@harryshuman9637

2 ай бұрын

@@kentoncompton3009 If Americans didn't learn about the world from Happy Meal toys, instead of schools, it wouldn't be a problem.

@ilija.8548

2 ай бұрын

@@harryshuman9637you do know that gepard is not an english word right?

@harryshuman9637

2 ай бұрын

@@ilija.8548 neither is baguette but you know that one

But ztz96 is even better

This vehicle at 9.3 has 425mm of pen with a 125mm meanwhile an Abrams has a 105mm at 10.3 with like 372mm pen. Well done gaijin on balancing your game.

@zer0asanumber

2 ай бұрын

Bruh the abrams is literally superior in every single way apart from pen.

@zer0asanumber

2 ай бұрын

The t72 even struggles to pen the lfp on a abrams lol

@Duka101

2 ай бұрын

@@zer0asanumber most people are going to shoot the turret ring anyway so it doesn't matter that much.

@zer0asanumber

2 ай бұрын

@@Duka101 you will be surprised how often they shoot the lfp

@Patton243

2 ай бұрын

My chief complaint with the Abrams is the penetration with the vehicle. Whereas you have 9.3s running around with better guns such at the T72. @@zer0asanumber

Third comment

Good armour. Everything else is mid. A balanced tankat 9.3 that is not op.

@nijivl

2 ай бұрын

yeah and if you got uptier you armour isn't good.

@Honoer

2 ай бұрын

What else has this kinda penetration at 9.3 in a mbt???

@zer0asanumber

2 ай бұрын

@@Honoer lol have you heard of the ztz96?😂😂

@nijivl

2 ай бұрын

also the 3mb22 might have the pen but post pen isn't good too

@Duka101

2 ай бұрын

@@nijivl personally didn't have issues with the post pen on the T-72A or even the T-64A.

FFS...quit apologizing for pushing a spawn. It's how the game was designed, not unlike a MOBA such as SMITE. Unless Gaijin redesigns the game, the weird whiny players be damned. It is what it is until it's changed. The only scumbags are the spawn rushers who only do it to get a kill or 2 and die, then leave the game. But even that is just a game design issue with some bad player sprinkled on top. Edit: And let's be honest...about the only way to kill enemy SPAA is in the spawn...they never move!

Notice how whenever War Thunder release an update, theres always stats or parts improvements for Russia & German tanks in top tier but never anything good or improvements for the US tanks. I really hate the bias in this game.

@juxtapixel7619

2 ай бұрын

Abrams has been buffed like 5 times in the past 12 months and the winrates are still abyssmal. They have a better toptier mbt than France or Italy but worse stats. At this point it's just the players.

@deant6627

2 ай бұрын

@juxtapixel7619 Total BFS.. Its just a Russian German biased game as Russia & Germany have been buffed sky high. Even if the devs reluctantly make one small improvement on the US tanks they'll make 10+ improvements for Russia

@juxtapixel7619

2 ай бұрын

What buffs exactly? You can't even name anything except Spall Liner which only T-90m and some Leopard 2s got. It doesn't matter how much stuff gets buffed if the players can't make use of it though. Like I said Abrams are better than Leclercs in War Thunder but has worse winrates because US mains suck@@deant6627

russian tanks arent op in WT... russian tanks in WT:

Ill do one pushup for every like this comment gets!

@bolgamore4126

2 ай бұрын

Why don't you do one better and go touch grass every time it gets a like

@thatcarguydom266

2 ай бұрын

We must make this get thousands of likes 😂

@christiangreco1744

2 ай бұрын

You gonna get ripped bro

@jaypazole4086

2 ай бұрын

Mediocre

@F-18Super

2 ай бұрын

@@thatcarguydom266tbh anything under 1k is manageable

"Almost OP" - said no one ever besides US mains

@LockeOG

2 ай бұрын

fr lmao, it uses the shitty early sabots that ricochet all the time, mediocre mobility at best, and ok armor which is instantly negated because everybody knows where to shoot a t72/t80 meanwhile the 2s25 has mango and has some of the best mobility in the entire tree at the same battlerating

nuh uh

If we go higher in tiers, T80 fuel tank eats entire sabot rounds. Keep talking trash about how it’s a skill issue. Its unfair. Not to mention the fact that armor delays the time for enemies to make an effective response by dozens of milliseconds which is enough for the biased tank to shoot the unbiased armor of the victims.

Everything is fun when you get bot lobbies

ehh i dissagree, with my experiance in it its the worst russian top tier MBT.

@maxwellmaragia2272

2 ай бұрын

Lets see, it has by far the best armour and survivability at 9.3 and also the best firepower plus okay mobility, same can be said for the t64b. Only downside is reverse speed and gun handling. Not near the worst lmao. The worst Russian mbt are the t72b3 and all t90s because nothing can balance out the horrible reverse speed at that high br.

Dang America only gets 370mm of pen on its Abram’s at 10.3. But I guess Russian company gets Russian preference.

@zer0asanumber

2 ай бұрын

Have you even played the t72 ??

@1222dss

2 ай бұрын

so? What is your point buddy? What should they do with this scary OP tank then? Remove it's dart? The worst winrates across ALL nations in the game probly way to OP for you. Right?

all Russian Tanks and Soviet tanks should get a huge nerf in the game. They are not reliable they are cheap and frankly Ukraine have shown that. So the T series should just get nerfed...

gepard in most languages means cheetah

it was scary to have them add the third russian 10.0 line up premium giving russia straight perfect 10.0 grind lineup makes it awkward i thought they moved their base of operation to Hungary i see the bias is still popping its head up everywhere late late in 2024 should russia re visit afghanistan before it thinks it is a country like japan or germany thinking they are better than everyone else lets not forget about afghanistan russia....please it is time to nerf your abilities

@1222dss

2 ай бұрын

stop sniffing substances bruh. It ain't gonna end well for your health