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T-72
T-72 Main Battle Tank
Tanque de batalla principal T-72
GROUND_VEHICLE MBT HIGH OPERATIONAL Soviet ×40–60
Description
125mm-smoothbore tank with composite armor; pre-Soviet-collapse delivery, no follow-up parts contract. Concentrated near Havana for parade and palace-guard duties.
Quantity evidence · 40–60
Wikipedia FAR equipment list cites ~50 T-72M1, the most modern tank in Cuban service; very limited and partly cannibalized for spares.
🏛 Storage / location
🏛 Underground Arsenal (Havana area) — FAR weapons depot · MIL_STATION
Also stored here: 2S1 Gvozdika · 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm · BM-21 Grad · HOWO (Sinotruk) · T-55 / T-55AM · T-62 · Ural-4320
📍 23.0500, -82.4000
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Provenance
Origin / Origen Soviet
Supplier / Proveedor USSR
Year acquired / Año adquirido 1985 – 1991
Operational % / % operativo 50%
IISS Military Balance 2025
[2023 Zvezda] visually confirmed in the >100m underground Havana-area arsenal (Voennaya Priyomka, Dec 2023).
📚 Sources
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🔗 RELATED
🏛 Storage site 1
Underground Arsenal (Havana area) — FAR weapons depotMIL_STATION · (undisclosed, near Havana)
📦 Co-located assets 7
●BM-21 Grad BM-21 Grad 122mm multiple rocket launche●2S1 Gvozdika 2S1 Gvozdika 122mm Self-Propelled Howitz●2S3 Akatsiya 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm Self-Propelled Howitz●T-55 / T-55AM T-55 / T-55AM Main Battle Tank●T-62 T-62 Main Battle Tank
🎯 Related operations 0
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