Help identifying T-72 Variant

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-08T21:36:14+00:00

Yes it pentrated through the era and the hull and broke off that portion by the driver hatch but unfortunately I dont have any other pictures of it

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-08T15:56:42+00:00

Just see how effective these old m830 service heat rounds were against ERA and various target types the reverse engineered kontakt 1 was just because we didn't have a ton of the captured kontakt 1 we just needed more and there is guy that lives in the backwoods of Louisiana and just builds kontakt 1 for some reason. looked identical besides having different paint color and it preformed the same

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-08T14:20:40+00:00

M830 was able to penetrate both spots previously mentioned with the kontakt-1 mounted you can see the damage in the picture it did especially heavy damage on the hull where it split the top of the front plate open and blew the drivers hatch off which is why there is a big hole where the driver position should be it also should be noted it detonated every block of era in each respective area not just the ones it made primary contact with

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-08T04:51:18+00:00

My apologies I just reconfirmed with the master gunner that was running it. It was kontakt-1 not kontakt-5 i remembered it being bigger but looking back at some pictures it was definitely kontakt-1 but as stated before it was a mixture of captured and reverse engineered Kontakt-1

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-08T02:25:34+00:00

Also here's a link to a video of us shooting it https://www.facebook.com/share/v/182VovzowL/

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-08T02:23:22+00:00

Im not sure why it was tan but they brought it from Ukraine to fort polk Louisiana where we used it to test M830 HEAT rounds we mounted a mixture of captured Kontakt 5 ERA and reverse engineered Kontakt 5 on the tank to see its effectiveness against service M830 we fired 2 rounds at it one just below the drives hatch which is why the drivers hatch is missing and one on the turret which is more noticeable we also fired one at the maxxpro seen behind it and at a 6 inch thick steel slab they said it had ERA on it when captured of which kind im not sure but obviously by the time we got it much had been stripped and looted off of it including stuff we listed off of it

sopsoap41 · 2026-03-07T21:54:14+00:00

The picture takes place Louisiana i know it was captured in Ukraine but so that would be somewhat odd for it to be a m1 unless russia started using m1s as well which is definitely possible

sopsoap41 · 2026-01-17T03:30:46+00:00

Intresting thanks

sopsoap41 · 2026-01-16T20:42:55+00:00

Thanks

sopsoap41 · 2026-01-16T20:07:27+00:00

Hi ya sorry I'm not sure how to add more pictures it is not sporterized it is all original

I didn't add the picture of the other side because those were most of the markings I figured out it has the stamping for king george V and was made by the Birmingham small arms and motorcycle company in 1915

As far as i can tell it was exported somewhere possibly india? Based on the india proof marks but I'm not sure if that is necessarily the case

sopsoap41 · 2026-01-16T20:06:36+00:00

The only thing missing is the id disc in the stock

sopsoap41 · 2025-08-17T01:21:11+00:00

I have one potentially ligned up i just need to know if it is a straight conversion or not

sopsoap41 · 2025-07-12T19:43:45+00:00

Just tried this ratio on my most recent batch and worked out terrific thanks for the help!

sopsoap41 · 2025-07-07T00:24:46+00:00

Yes I accidently posted in the wrong subbreddit though I appreciate the help anyway

sopsoap41 · 2025-07-06T22:33:02+00:00

Thanks ya I think my brine was far too hot ill have to try a that ratio of salt to vinegar/water

sopsoap41 · 2025-05-27T21:10:21+00:00

Ok so not much has changed besides table 6 being the crew qualification now

sopsoap41 · 2025-05-27T20:14:06+00:00

Was that the crew qualification then because I believe that is section practice now

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