What Does the '72' stand for in T-72?

Not the date of design, production or fielding.....but also all of those, sort of.

#military #tanks

[ryanhanson]

T-70 in WWII: "they'll never know we used a time machine."

[pedrojuan]

The T-14 Armata entered production in 1914

[chrisc]

My personal favorite is the Ti-83…shout out to my calculator. I’m sorry to anyone who reads this I’ve been doing math homework for 4 hours and this joke was terrible.

[WorshipinIdols]

It’s supposed to be the year that development began. But because of the evolving nature of the project it’s really not. It’s just the year of the successful prototype of the model that become the final version.

[Grizzbit]

I mean this in a polite fashion, but this is who I think of when I think of a big army infantry or arty officer. Someone who would make Hal Moore proud with how he conducts himself and represents the army.

[notoriginalnickname]

Thats also how AK-47 was named
AK stands for avtomat kalashnikov and 1947 is the year when it was fully implemented

[jewelz]

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[destructivecriticism]

I’m pretty sure those T80 and T90’s are time traveling Terminators

[mowgli]

"I designed the T-11. It's like the T-10, but it goes up to one more..."

[SA-xfeb]

The year the Soviet military approved or accepted the prototype for service.

[sailorssilence]

The first number was the decade it went into service, and the last number is the tank factory plant it came form. Sometimes it changed. There was no dogmatic adherence. Kharkov were suffixed with 4, (T-64, T-54, T-34, T-74), Ural was 2, (T-62, T-72, ) then some were weird. Ural also built the T-55 so that's a weird one, as well as the T-90.

[countcampula]

It stands for "we added a slightly better computer but it's the exact same stupid thing from the 70's"

[KnightFilms]

Fun fact: Chinese Experimental tanks are known as WZ the last three numbers specified what kind of tank it was.

Such as WZ-111
The first (1) means armoured vehicle
Second (1) means heavy tank
Third (1) means what variant

[xaqxiq]

So it’s more like the year that the tank got the final approval for production in a sense.

[Nepomniachtchi_Austin]

I've found between anything with a numeric designation, vehicle or firearm, the numbers can mean anything.

[ArthuriusG]

It applies sometimes, but majority of the time its the year

[Rob_FF]

That is pretty cool info. I knew the numbers corresponded to years. I thought they were more intended year of introduction then anything else.

[IrondanAllegiance]

I assumed the number was just that iteration. T-72 would be the 72nd iteration of that series of tanks, and T-65 through 71 were just prototypes that were sent back, or something along those lines.
I suppose I didn't base this assumption on much actual information, so I shouldn't be surprised of someone tells me something else.

[RepublicanGit]

I actually wanted to know that thanks. 🤝🏻

[sarge]

When i served in West Germany with the British army we were always told that the number signified the year the tank was first spotted in use in East Germany.