Posted on 02/06/2014 12:38:36 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
T-64 was a complicated nighmare. Cost and maintenance problems were a primary reasons why it was replaced with much more primitive T-72 with Soviet military, initially designed for Third World customers.
T-72 was priced at 340 to 420 thousand rubles for domestic market at the time and T-64 was 830 to way over million.
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