A lot of those the T-72s is falling apart because of rusky drones as the tanks were given to Ukraine.
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Their tanks may be old, but at least their citizens can buy a train or tram ticket for less than 1 euro in many cases.
I'd rather have that in my country than newer tanks.
Licenses for concealed carrying a gun are easy to get as well.
That's what a Soviet plan economy does to you.
It looks like prior to WW2 they had some good tanks based on a UK (LT vz.34 Carden Loyd tankettes), and German design (Kolohousenka) . Then the Nazis invaded. After the war they then they produced under license the rather successful T54 T55, and T72.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_Czechoslovakia
Tanks
Kolohousenka LT vz. 34 - ČKD/Praga P-11 light tank. Fifty built for Czechoslovakia.[29]
LT vz. 35 - Škoda S-IIa light tank built for Czechoslovak army. Captured examples used by Germany as Panzer 35(t).[29]
LT vz. 38 - ČKD/Praga TNH light tank built for Czechoslovakia and export. Adopted by German army as Panzer 38(t) and continued in production until 1942.[30]
ST vz. 39 - Prototype medium tank design by ČKD/Praga. Ordered by Czechoslovak army but production plans stopped by German takeover.[31]
AH-IV - Two-man light tank built for export.[32]
F-IV-HE - 1937 prototype three-man amphibious light tank.[32]
Škoda S-IIb/S-II-c/T-21 - Medium tank design rejected by Czechoslovakia in favour of the St vz. 39, but was developed into the 40M Turán I by the Hungarians.[29]
Škoda T-24 - The Škoda T24 is a lightly armoured medium tank designed by the Škoda car company.
T-54/55 - 1,800 T-54s were ordered in 1957 and produced under license between 1958 and 1963. 1,700 T-55s were ordered in 1963 and produced under license between 1964 and 1973.[7] Overall 2,700 T-54s were produced under license between 1957 and 1998 and 8,300 T-55s and T-55As between 1964 and 1983 (T-55A was probably produced since 1968) (most for export). Passed on to successor states.
T-72 - About 1,700 T-72/T-72M/T-72M1 were produced between 1981 and 1990. The Czechoslovak army had 815 T-72 in 1991.
ST-I - Post-war Czechoslovak designation for Jagdpanzer 38 "Hetzer". 249 were in service until being discontinued in the 60s.[33]
Was “back then” between the world wars?
Yep! Czechoslovak tanks were widely exported up until Czechoslovakia was destroyed by Nazi Germany. The Nazis used the tanks they captured, but in the postwar situation, Czechoslovakia was reduced mostly to producing Soviet designs.