A fan for Real life Military equipment ? then this is your mod ! it is a Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge mod that basically imports a lot of RL military hardware from the cold war era in the 60's to the late 2000's while maintaining a lot RA2 aspects like prism, tesla tech and etc. Also, It expands on the original RA2 armor system thanks to ARES in which it creates more roles to create numerous units effectively expanding the complexity of handling an army making it necessary to use mixed arms to counter the various unit types. Also, do note that each country will have some twists in their military equipment that will be more or less similar to their respective RL counterparts. In short: it is a relative to reality fun mod but "a fun mod" is conservative statement.
The soviet T-72A lev (lion) heavy tank is adopted by many nations other than the USSR and China whom could not afford to buy the mighty T-80UK Mastodon. Albeit not as armored as the T-80 or the M1A2 but it more than makes up for it with its main 125mm smooth bore auto loading cannon not to mention being slightly more faster than the aforementioned heavy tanks.
All those tanks are so beautiful!
Makes sense for nations that can't use the T-80UK for them to have the T-72. The '72 is a pretty economical tank in real life as well!