MODERN RUSSIAN ARMOUR - T-72B1 in Ukraine April 2022

[Brokeneagle]

This 'bricked -up' toughie is already started and coming soon to a channel near you ........

I searched out as many shots of this tank as I could find - some have been taken at different times if you look at the slogans painted on the barrel and the side rubber sheet hanging out with the Kontakt brick barley attached. Also the last photo has no mud jammed in the tracks, which means it has travelled further on a hard surface.
This is a M or an A in the same column...[which I may end up doing as well]

...and I think this is the same tank much later...

 

[Jeeves]

Looking forward to it Ian!

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Brokeneagle]

Here we go again, another version of the T-72, this time its an early B version, the B1.
The T-72B, which appeared in the mid-1980s, included a more advanced fire control system, the ability to launch anti-tank guided missiles [ATGMs] through its main gun and enhanced armor protection. The T-72B1 was a cost-reduced version lacking missile capability but retaining most other improvements.
The main changes are with the Kontakt armour bricks - they are smaller and cover the whole turret, as well as the front glacis plate and up to half way along the side skirts toward the rear. The rear of the tank has a few minor changes from the later models with some foldable armoured covers and rear louvre covers for the outlets. The right hand exhaust outlet is slightly different also. The spare track stowage configuration on the lower rear plate is also different.
This one is the Meng B1 kit, which is quite nice but has some painful aspects in and opposite way to the Trumpeter BA. I will get into that later.

This one is the Meng B1 kit, which is quite nice but has some painful aspects in and opposite way to the Trumpeter BA. I will get into that later.

 

[moon puppy]

They are getting their money's worth out of that design aren't they?

 

[Heavens Eagle]

What's with the green wheel? Just curious as it looks to be the same pattern as the others. Yeah, I know they mix and match patterns.