Originally posted by Sturm:
Miko, would have to be either on RW or email. Have lots of questions to ask used to study the soviet military heavily in the 80's.
Use mikeko_ny@yahoo.com.
You should not expect many technical specs from me. Either because of the need to now or most likely because of the general sloppiness of the soviet military, we were not taught lot of things that you can find in a good book (in a US store) - like exact armor thickness and composition, etc. I did know more about it then an average grunt and I had read the manual, but I could not obviously have taken the notes even if I wanted to
Most of the details I knew I forgot over 15 years.
So I cannot be relied on for exact specs for every system or component (which changed constantly, BTW - even the armor thickness and shape).
I could tell you plenty how it felt, though. I took that baby through all it's paces - night, day, summer, winter, swamps, snow, underwater, self-entrenching, self-extracting, shooting for speed, etc.
T-72 is an outstanding piece of equipment. In the hands of a professional crew it would have been the deadliest weapon ever. Fortunately, the Soviet Army was the sorriest example of forced draft system and inept staffing practices.
miko
[This message has been edited by miko2d (edited 04-26-2001).]
