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Object 172

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Object 172-2M Byivol/"Buffalo"

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As I understand it, Uralvagonzavod was given the job of making an improved T-64.  Object 172 was the improved T-64; the main change was they replaced the two-stroke opposed piston diesel with exhaust-driven cooling with a more conventional liquid-cooled four stroke V diesel.  Object 172M is a sham designation; it's much more similar to object 167M than it is to object 172.  In object 172, Ural stripped out all the parts of the T-64 which they found objectionable, the autoloader, the running gear, the hull, etc. and replaced them with their own components which they had been developing in some cases since object 140.  Object 172M became the T-72, and the pretense of it being a T-64 variant quickly dissolved.

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