A Russian army T-72B. Russian defense ministry photo Russia’s tank shortage is worse than some observers previously thought. The Kremlin’s stocks of its most numerous tank, the Cold War-vintage T-72, ...
Tag: T-80
The T-80B Was A Great Tank—In 1978. Now It’s The Latest Obsolete Vehicle To Join The Russian War Effort.
A T-80B in its heyday. Wikimedia Commons In 1978, Soviet tank-maker Omsktransmash took the basic T-80 tank, which had appeared just two years earlier, and added a new turret with a better autoloader a...
In A Few Years, The Russian Army Could Run Out Of Tanks. What Happens Then?
Russian president Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod in 2015. Wikimedia Commons Two or three years. That’s how long the Russian army might have before it runs out of tanks, according to one estimate...
Ukraine Is Going To Run Out Of T-64 Tanks
An upgraded Ukrainian T-64BV with modern optics and reactive armor. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian army went to war with around 800 active T-64 tanks. In the 11 months since Russia widened its attack...
Now Russia Is Adding Inferior Optics To Its T-80 Tanks, Too
A T-80 with the 1PN96MT-02 sight. Russian defense ministry photo We already knew that the Russian army—in a desperate effort to make good its losses in Ukraine—was pulling old T-72 tanks out of storag...
Cyprus Could Transfer Its Russian Armaments To Ukraine If Guaranteed Speedy Replacements
The Biden administration’s lifting of the U.S. arms embargo on Cyprus on Oct. 1 has rekindled the prospect of Nicosia transferring its Russian military arsenal to Ukraine in return for Western-m...
Why Ukraine Capturing So Many Antique Tanks Is Bad News For Russia
You can find old Soviet T-62 tanks in museums all around the world, but the Ukrainians are increasingly capturing them on the battlefield. This is an indicator of just how deeply Russia is having to d...
Ukraine Made Just A Handful Of Speedy T-84 Tanks. Now They’re On The Front Line.
A T-84 ‘Oblot,’ possibly in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian army photo Ukraine produced just five or six copies of one of its best tanks—the T-84 Oplot. That’s enough for just one platoon. But ...
Russian Victory Day Parade Cut By 35%, Emphasizing Ukraine’s Battlefield Prowess
TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Blazing Sun) multiple thermobaric rocket launchers are one of the many systems … [+] that won’t be present for Russia’s sadly diminished 2022 Victory Day Parade H...