
FAMOS, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - engine.Slovenske železarne, Ravne, Slovenia - steel, turret and armor.Bratstvo, Novi Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina,- gun with barrel 125mm.The biggest manufacturers directly involved in production of the M84 main battle tank in SFR Yugoslavia and Federal republic of Yugoslavia among former republics were: The manufacturer was chosen by Josip Broz Tito to be the Đuro Đaković in Croatia, over other proposed manufacturers in Serbia: Goša FOM Smederevska Palanka and Mašinska Industrija Niš, at that time the biggest producers of locomotives and wagons in Yugoslavia. Other variants were introduced later, most being modernization packages.Ībout 240 Yugoslav factories directly participated in the production of the M-84, and about 1,000 others participated indirectly. The M-84 entered service with the Yugoslav People's Army in 1984, and the improved M-84A version entered service a few years later. The M-84 is based on the Soviet T-72M, the export variant of T-72A, with many improvements, including a domestic fire-control system that the T-72M lacked, improved composite armor, and a 1,000- hp engine. The M-84 is still in service in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Kuwait. The M-84 is a Yugoslav main battle tank, a variant of the Soviet T-72 tank.
