Nicaragua is interested to purchase Russian-made main battle tank T-72B3.

Nicaragua is interested in the purchase of Russian-made T-72B3 tanks used in the first International Army Games, the Nicaraguan ambassador to Russia said. Venezuela also expressed its interest in acquiring some of the Russian military equipment used during the games.


Russian army T-72B3 main battle tank at ARMYGAMES-2015. (Credit photo Vitaly Kuzmin)

"We hope that the T-72B3 MBT will soon appear in our Army. I think we can talk about a purchase," Juan Ernesto Vasquez Araya stated.

According to Araya, Nicaragua's army uses the Russian-made T-55 main battle tank but the military has not previously operated the T-72 variant. The T-55 is a Soviet-made main battle tank, a derivative of the T-54B, which was adopted for service in 1956 by the Russian armed forces. Currently, Nicaragua army has a total of 65 T-55 MBTs.

The T-72 was developed in the former Soviet Union and is still widely used around the world.

The T-72B3 is the latest generation of T-72 main battle tank family. The T-72B3 has significantly improved its combat characteristics with more fire power, protection, mobility and command controllability.

The main armament of the T-72B3 is a 125mm 2A46M-5 smoothbore gun fitted with a light-alloy thermal sleeve and a bore evacuator. The tank is fitted with a carousel automatic loader mounted on the turret floor and also on the rear wall of the turret.

Nicaragua army T-55 main battle tank

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Wonder why they are not taking a T-90 version.

Penguin said:

Wonder why they are not taking a T-90 version.

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Lack of money?

80% of T-90 capability for 45-75% of the cost. > more tanks for a given amount.

T-72 Tank

who would they use them against??

C130 said:

who would they use them against??

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BDforever said:

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lol, that's cute.


they could have 1,000 T-72B3 and it wouldn't make much of a difference.

Why don't they buy the arjun variant , it's much more effective in the jungle

Nicaragua borders El Salvaros, Honduras and Costa Rica.

Nicaragua is in territorial disputes with

• Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank, with respect to the maritime boundary question in the Golfo de Fonseca (The ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required);
• Honduras over a boundary dispute in the Caribbean Sea, and with
• Costa Rica over a boundary dispute involving the San Juan River (Nicaragua is sovereign over the Rio San Juan, and by treaty Costa Rica has the right to navigate over part of the river with 'objects of commerce'. A dispute emerged when Costa Rica tried to navigate with armed members of its security forces.)

C130 said:

lol, that's cute.

they could have 1,000 T-72B3 and it wouldn't make much of a difference.

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Then again, ony idiots believe tanks are invulnerable...