The War in the Ukraine

[Atomicfrog]

Footage of repairing a Russian BTR-80 in the field, an armored personnel carrier in Ukraine hit a mine, after which it needed to replace the wheel gear.

Probably the story of a lot of armored vehicule ''kills''. Some abandoned, some repaired. The number of parts going to the front is probably impressive and multiple types probably bring a lot of headache. They have quite a pair if they are in artillery reach, repairing it slowly on field.

On the Russian side they have the chance to have parts an maintenance knowledges for repairing them but not on the Ukrainian side for most of the NATO mix-up gifts.

 

[Broccoli]

What happened to the Thousands of T-72s and T-80s in storage? Russia should have 20 thousand plus tanks in storage.

Sold for scrap by people who's job was to maintain those storages?

It seems Ukraine going to get cluster munitions from US.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638481433059639296

 

[tankphobia]

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Attack on Sevastopol in Crimea overnight using waterborne drone. Seems like Ukraine is stepping up long range strikes using drones recently, with usage of mugin-5s also reported.

 

[SolarWarden]

Just using some common sense, mate. T-55's and T-54 have been out of service for a while longer than T-62's to the the point they were actively being scrapped with around left 1200 in 2015 waiting for destruction.

But hey, they are going to pull those few T-54's left out of storage, a tank which had components manufactured in Kharkiv to boot, instead of the thousands of T-72 or even T-62's just because thats something you do, even if there is no evidence of where, why and when they are being taken, just a twitter account claiming without evidence they are going to be put back into service in Ukraine.

I know you want this to be true and makes your job of spreading NAFO fud more bareable, but try to excercise some critical thinking. A few months ago, the "800 T-62M's" were all the rage and how the Russian army was going to be entirely comprised of them, yet we have seen an increase of T-90M in frontline service for every claimed T-62M and turns out the 800 refurbished tanks included T-72's and T-80's as well.

Your reach of "diversion" makes no sense and it has the feel of trying to find an excuse that isn't a horrible one on why Russia is dusting off T-55 tanks. Here's a better reason why they are bringing t55's to the war...They are dusting off those t-55's because the more plausible reason is they are running out of "modern tanks" and don't want to pull remaining "moder tanks" from other regions that will likely leave them vulnerable. Yes I've heard that T-90M factories are full rate and chugging along the thing is Russia is losing T-72 variants in Ukraine much faster than they can produce T-90M's.

That is a more believable reason.

 

[gelgoog]

Of course it cannot be that the Russians also need more tanks because the contact line is much longer. It must all be combat tank losses...

As for the cluster munitions, the Russians also have cluster munitions, which they can use. It is just going to increase the body count faster for both sides and lead to a nightmare for civilians decades afterwards with unexploded bomblets all over the place.

As usual the US tries to inflict maximum pain to the Russians without care for Ukrainian lives at all.

 

[sheogorath]

What about the wall of gauges on the left on the panel of the T-72? You call that simple?

Same gauges on the left in the T-55, just rearranged and combined with those in the front.

Besides there is more to a tank than the driver station.

True, but early T-72's and T-55 shared a lot of commonality to simplify production, costs and training. The T-72 was supposed to be the low end of the hi-lo mix the soviets liked.

For example, the TKN-1 sight of the T-72 was shared with the T-55, T-54 and the behemoth T-10. Later variants had the TKN-3 which was also fitted to the T-55, T-80, T-62 and T-64

Attack on Sevastopol in Crimea overnight using waterborne drone

The water drones were reported getting stuck in the nets protecting the entrance to the base and another one got taken out by gun fire.

 

[jvodan]

Russians are apparently dipping into their deep storages.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638472845977108482

I wonder if these are going to be deployed as 'mobile gun emplacements' along the defensive lines that Russia has setup behind the front.

 

[Atomicfrog]

I wonder if these are going to be deployed as 'mobile gun emplacements' along the defensive lines that Russia has setup behind the front.

Russian have employed old tanks in Chechnya directly on railcars to level strongholds, we will see were it will end if they are going in Ukraine.

 

[RottenPanzer]

Russia has run out of modern tanks imply that the count that was provided by Oryx is actually much higher than he presented

 

[Tam]

Three barracks of foreign mercenaries hit in Kiev by Geran drone attacks.

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More Geran attacks.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638552069161222145

Lancet kill on an armored vehicle with an ammo cook off. This makes it clear that shaped charges are used with the drone.

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