"The T-72 tank possesses huge potential for its modernization and this is why the Tank Biathlon brings new ideas on improving its design," the statement says. The Tank Biathlon contest makes it ...

With dwindling tank reserves, Moscow’s armored corps has been in trouble. However, fresh batches of T-90 and T-72 MBTs have reportedly ... received state-of-the-art military equipment.

However, Kyiv has not been selective about what vehicles, and it needs any tanks it can get. Though the T-72 is hardly the most advanced MBT in service today, when it was introduced in the mid ...