It has a range of 100m to 4,000m and firing requires the tank to be stationary. The system is intended to engage tanks fitted with ERA as well as low-flying air targets. The tank’s anti-armour missile system is the 9K120 Svir (Nato codename AT-11 Sniper), designed by the KBP Instrument Design Bureau, Tula. Dual-axis stabilisation ensures effective firing on the move. Fire accuracy is attained by a laser rangefinder sight, ballistic computer and a thermal barrel sleeve. The gun fires separate loading armour-piercing discarding sabot rounds (APDS), high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds and high-explosive fragmentation (HE-FRAG) projectiles. The T-72S carries 45 rounds of 125mm ammunition, 22 rounds of which are carried on an automatic loading carousel. The tank is fitted with a 125mm D-81 smoothbore gun, a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun and a 12.7mm air defence machine gun mounted on the commander’s cupola. The export version of the T-72B, the T-72S has a new engine and suspension system and is configured for mounting explosive reactive armour (ERA). The T-72A main battle tank was in production until 1985, along with export versions T-72M and T-72M1.
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