Soviet-Afghan War T-72 ~FINISHED~ Pics on Page 4

Okay, it's time for me to clock in on this......

And yes, I'm definitely "seeing the light" here.

                                        Two thumbs up, 'cause that's all I got!

The protective anti-static wrapping used on replacement computer hard drives has a smoky translucent appearance which is excellent for periscopes too.

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mg.mikael:

 

.....now where are the people that love it.

 

 

C'mon now... I gave you a and a ...  that equals love in my book...

So that's what the beer means. I'll drink to that!

wbill76- Thanks for the comments(and thanks again for the manuscript help!)

Killjoy, Dre, hughes2682- Thanks for checkin' out the build guys, and I'm glad your lovin' all the little added 'scratch' extras.

disastermaster- 'Seeing the light'....guess my first time doing the technique of adding wrapping paper to the lights was a success. Thanks for that fantastic idea of using that anti-static wrapping, I have tons of it, but for some reason I just plain never thought of using that. Definatley will try it out next time!

mg.mikael

disastermaster-.............Thanks for that fantastic idea of using that anti-static wrapping, I have tons of it, but for some reason I just plain never thought of using that. Definitely will try it out next time!

'Ya welcome.

.................it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it".

I know I am late to this post, but you probably cannot find pictures of the T-72 in Afghanistan because, as far as I know, they were not used during the Soviets time there during 1979-1989.  T-55s and T-62s, but not the T-72.  There may have been some specialist based T-72 vehicles, but no combat tanks.  Kind of like we did not have M-60 MBTs in Vietnam, but used M-48s.  If someone has factual evidence that T-72s were there, please post it, as I have been unable to find or see anything to verify their presence.  If they were there, I would be interested to know which units had them and in what quanitity.     

USAFSPOOK

I know I am late to this post, but you probably cannot find pictures of the T-72 in Afghanistan because, as far as I know, they were not used during the Soviets time there during 1979-1989.  T-55s and T-62s, but not the T-72.  There may have been some specialist based T-72 vehicles, but no combat tanks.  Kind of like we did not have M-60 MBTs in Vietnam, but used M-48s.  If someone has factual evidence that T-72s were there, please post it, as I have been unable to find or see anything to verify their presence.  If they were there, I would be interested to know which units had them and in what quanitity.     

Actually I found a reference(but can't find the link at this time) that said there were no T-72 pics because they were one of the latest new weapons they had and they wanted to keep pics from leaking out to the West, in other words the US. Thus orders were handed down to troops not to take any images, probably also why the T-72's that served their were free from unit markings and etc(probably due in part to them not being part of units but their for testing.) As for their use in Afghanistan it seems to be mostly testing and development near the Soviet bases with no combat. Here are a few links that mention the T-72 in the Soviet-Afghan War.

http://www.army-technology.com/news/news62196.html

http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/11380394

http://www.anistor.gr/english/enback/e001.htm