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PT-91 Twardy vs T-72B: how to tell them apart

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PT-91 Twardy

Main battle tank, Poland. In service since 1995

What gives it away

T-72 outline covered in Polish ERAWA explosive armour: flat rectangular boxes on the turret front and the hull glacis.

Used by

Poland, Malaysia, Ukraine

T-72B, main battle tank from Soviet Union

T-72B

Main battle tank, Soviet Union. In service since 1985

What gives it away

Six large road wheels and a rounded cast turret, but older sights than the T-72B3: no large thermal-sight box on the turret roof.

Used by

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Syria and others

Photo: Andrey Butko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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