"T74 Tank Performance / Armor Ratings?" Topic

I got some of these in a lot of minis I purchased second-hand, and am not sure how to rate them, quality-wise.

From doing a little poking around on the net, it appears that perhaps they should be rated as a later variant of the T72.

Any ideas which model?

no link. how to see them.

I thought the "T-74" was an erroneous model number reported by NATO for the T-80…

Damon.

Ah, sorry about that.

Here's a link to the pic of the GHQ T-74:

ghqmodels.com/store/w28.html

On GHQ's site, they list it as a variant of the T-72, and that's what I read on Wiki too.

Of course, there are so many different armor ratings for the T-72 that being able to narrow it down a bit would help to figure out how good its armor, and fire control systems are.

I thought a "T-74" was a T-72A. Note that CinC still sells this as a T-80.

My plan was to use it as an East German T-72G, the GHQ T-74 was judged to be close to that, amongst other possibilities. There's a thread on the GHQ forums about it, maybe one here too.

I thought the GHQ T-&74 was supposed to be representing this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-84

The GHQ T74 is what we used to call a T72 Dolly Parton. It had enhanced armor bulging out at the front of the turret, hence Dolly Parton

Thanks for all the replies.

It does sound like the T-72A, and/or the slightly less capable, export, T-72M1 (T-72A dumbed down variant).