At least 25 T-72s have been refitted and readied for combat operations across various theaters, and a subsequent batch will also be repaired and brought to fighting condition.Īccording to Military Africa, through the Czech company Excalibur Army, Hungarian T-72As and T-72M1s were sold to Nigeria. The Nigerian Army keeps fixing some of these dilapidated T-72s. The total price of the delivery was estimated at USD8m (N1,536,400,000), with a unit price per tank of $8 million, Africa Defense News reports. The t-72 B model was acquired from Ukraine in 2014, and the T-72M1 was acquired from the Czech Republic in 2015. Nigeria acquired a mix of T-72A, T-72AV, T-72M1, and T-72B from Hungary, Czech, and Ukraine in 2014-15 during the start of the terror insurgency in the northeast. Others had to be cannibalized to fix broken ones. To be fair, another tweet writes that those T-72s were old purchased as new that time from the black market with no spares. Nigerian Army T-72AV main battle tank (Picture source: Twitter/beegeaglesblog) Follow Army Recognition on Google News at this link According to a tweet from Defense News Nigeria, the British-built Vickers Mk.3 Eagle tank acquired over 30 years ago has proven to be a far more reliable tank on the battlefield, with fewer breakdowns than the T-72 tanks acquired in 2014-2015.
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