Engine’s Smoke Generating System Saved T-72 Tank from Missile in Syria (Video)

The Russian T-72 tank’s efficiency has been once again proved on a battlefield.

The Russian T-72 tank has once again proved its efficiency on a battlefield. Another confirmation has come from Syria. A video, showing terrorists, trying to destroy the T-72 tank of the Government Forces, was published online.

The video, lasting only 40 seconds, clearly shows the Konkurs anti-tank guided missile system. Then the T-72 tank of one of the earliest modification appears in the frame. This is evidenced by the lack of a launching system of the 902 Tucha smoke grenades and the Kontakt explosive reactive armor. Then a rocket launch is carried out.

However, the tank crew has noticed an anti-tank guided missile, flying in their direction, and activated an engine’s smoke generating system. This system works on the principle of supply of diesel fuel into the exhaust manifold of a running engine: evaporating, the fuel and exhaust form an aerosol as a white cloud. This ‘camouflage’ should close the aiming line for a gun-layer of the anti-tank guided missile, weaken fluorescence of the missile to a level, which would not allow the operator to accompany it to the target, and worsen the conditions of observation.

As a result, by the time when the missile approached, a white cloud has hidden the tank, and the operator made a mistake. The missile hit an exterior slope, located next to the tank. A massive explosion occurred.

According to military experts, the fact that the footage does not show the burning tank and ammunition, exploding inside it, allows to state that the T-72 remained unharmed or suffered minor damage.