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:* '''Ob'yekt 172-2M "Buffalo"''': Modernization of the T-72 made in the early 1970s. The angle of the front armour slope was changed to 30 degrees. 100% metal side skirts protecting sides of the hull, added armour screens protecting the turret, ammunition storage increased to 45 rounds, modified suspension, added [[smoke grenade]] dischargers (SGDs), engine power boosted to {{convert|840|hp|abbr=on}}.<ref name="pancerni1" />

:* '''T-72 "Ural-1" (Ob'yekt 172M1)''' (1976):<ref name="War Technology" /> new 2A46 main gun, new armour on the turret.<ref name="pancerni1" />

* '''T-72A (Ob'yekt 172M-1)''' (1979):<ref name="War Technology" /> An improved version of the basic T-72 "Ural". Large numbers of early-production T-72 "Ural" models were modernized in the 1980s. Searchlight has been placed on the right-hand side of turret, blanking off the TPD-2-49 coincidence optical rangefinder and replaced by the TPD-K1 [[laser rangefinder]], added plastic armour track skirts covering the upper part of the suspension with separate panels protecting the sides of the fuel and stowage panniers instead of the flipper-type armor panels used on the T-72 "Ural", the turret front and top being heavily reinforced with composite armour better known by its US codename – "Dolly Parton", provisions for mounting reactive armor, an electronic [[fire control system]], MB smoke grenade launchers, flipper armour mount on front mudguards, internal changes, and a slight weight increase.<ref name="JED The Military Equipment Directory" /><ref name="War Technology" /><ref name="pancerni1" /><ref name="Gary's Combat Vehicle Reference Guide">{{cite web|url=http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/tank/T-72.html|title=Gary's Combat Vehicle Reference Guide|publisher=inetres.com|access-date=13 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327164032/http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/cv/tank/T-72.html|archive-date=27 March 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:ParkPatriot2015part2-28.jpg|thumb|right|T-72A]]

:*'''T-72A obr.1979g1982g''': Additional glacis armour with thickness of 1716&nbsp;mm of high resistance steel.

:* '''T-72A obr.1984g''': Late- production model with antinew turret, new gunner night sight 1K13-radiation49, new engine. Smoke launchers on the turret liningside.

:* '''T-72AK (Ob'yekt 176K)''': Command version of the T-72A. In NATO code T-72AK was represented by three different designations: T-72AK1, T-72AK2 and T-72AK3 which represented the company command version, battalion command version and regiment command version.<ref name="JED The Military Equipment Directory" /><ref name="War Technology" /><ref name="pancerni1" />

:*[[File:Tank T-72AV (4568811088).jpg|thumb|T-72AV]]'''T-72AV''': ("V" for ''vzryvnoi'' – explosive) model with Kontakt-1 explosive reactive armour fitted to hull front and turret.<ref name="JED The Military Equipment Directory" />