A T-62M was targeted by artillery, causing the crew to bail at the first sign of trouble.
Interestingly, it was not dug in, but was instead travelling alone in the middle of the field as if it were on the same mission as a T72, T80 or T90.
We also see 3 crew members bailing, not 4 as it requires.
>https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1542871757719232512
Is this the oldest tank (by measure of years passed since manufacturing to the last war it was used in) ever put into service, bros?
I'm pretty sure some african countries are still actively fielding some WW1 tanks.
No that makes 0 sense
10s of thousands of t-55 where produced
>In 2000, a T-34 Model 1943 was recovered that had spent 56 years at the bottom of a bog in Estonia. The tank had been captured and used by retreating German troops, who dumped it in the swamp when it ran out of fuel. The anaerobic environment of the bog preserved the tank and ensured there were no signs of oil leakage, rust, or other significant water damage. The engine was restored to full working order.
>Today, Vietnam possesses the largest known surviving fleet of active T-34 series tanks, with 45
Beyond that, picrelated is a 70-year-old T-34 that's fighting in Yemen in 2020. You can see one of the crew pulling the trigger via a pull cord from outside the tank as they fear that their bootleg ammunition in combination with the 70+ year old gun will blow up the tank.
T-34 in Yemen is probably the oldest you're going to get https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_march_2021_global_security_army_industry/russian_world_war_2_t-34_tanks_still_fighting_in_yemen_war.html
>with 44,900 lost during the war
Wow
Probably. There were WWII tanks and TD's being used in the Yugoslav Wars in the 90's, 50 years after they were built.
T-55 is still in service in some countries.
off the top of my head probably either Centurion AVREs in the gulf war or Bosnian Hellcats.
He can't keep getting away with it vatniksisters
This meme never gets old.
Just like the VDVs that assaulted hostomel, they will never grow old either
What's the cope going to be now that we have hard evidence that museum pieces are shipped to combat zones?
>xaxaxa hohols wasting expensive shells on old tanks
>it was just a feint to see where the artsy stands! Two more weeks!
T-62M can do assault gun role. Why not clean out old stocks of tanks and also get rid of 115mm ammo and unique spare parts
because they are crewed you moron
clearing out old stock = sending people to certain death
they are sent because there is a lot less demand for T-62 parts, so the ones that were in storage don't have a lot of parts stolen/stripped off for tanks in service
unlike the T-72s
How long until we see t-34s deployed? Christmas?
Can you. IMAGINE. The ridicule and seething if they fielded that shit?
Russia sadly has extremely few t34s, like "count on two hands" tier for parades.
There are M4 sherman and Stewart light tank hulls refitted to be mine vehicles and stuff down in South America, and a few commie countries still have t34s. Those have to be the oldest.
Plus a ton of african countries have t54/55s still
>3 crew instead of 4
A moment of silence for the poor bastard playing double duty as gunner/loader or TC/loader
I think number 4 is probably dead inside the vehicle.
>THE LOADER IS UNCONSCIOUS!
>Underrated based-thunder anon
what an absolute chad of a lad
Isn't it really difficult to load that piece of shit too
Very. It's a long single-piece shell in a low profile turret. From what I can find it also weighs 22kg. Oh, and there's only a few rounds in the turret rack, the rest needs to be pulled from the hull.
That is gunner/TC and loader crewing.
They don't have a loader because they don't use the main gun (well, they may have one in the breech for self-defense but that's it).
When they're moving, they only use the MG.
Tanks stuck in reverse, I don't think the driver got out alive. > t. former armoured vehicle driver.
vatniksisters we have to bring out the t-14s...
This gay clearly made this with sharpie or something
So was it hit by anything or did the tank just do that?
Arty killed the driver
It's T-80U
>T-62s are spotted on freight trains a month ago
>Russian shills:
>theyre going to be used as gun emplacements and field artillery to support the infantry, they won't actually be used as tanks
>Present day:
>they're used as fricking tanks and die just the same as the T-72, the T-80, and the T-90 before them
Colour me fricking surprised
This was recorded in the SOUTH, NOT the LPR/DPR. These are RUSSIAN troops using the T-62, not the cannon fodder.
Slow down, breath, and read the post you're replying to before sperging out.
Seethe.
Shills and everyone else assumed T62's would be assigned to only LPR and DNR troops. Not even I thought the Russian army would be using these.
No one assumed that. Read my post again, no such assumptions are in there. You're getting unreasonably angry for no reason when we're both on the same side. I suspect you may need to brush up your English language skills.
What the frick are you on about? What he said makes sense you tard.
It doesn't make sense in the context of the post he's replying to
>anon talks about shitty tanks being used as front line tanks
>other anon comments in amazement that these shitty tanks are being served on the russian regulars, not just their conscripts who normally get the worst of the worst
>you decide to sperg out because you think amazement and emphasis = anger
>other anon reacts because you are a fricking moron sperging out
>I come in and set you straight.
Ok, we all clear now?
Eastern Euro butthurter attacks the Westerner because he is an ESL tard and doesn't understand he was making fun out of the Russians.
Pottery.
always believe the opposite what russians online say. 99% of the time you'll be right with this principle in mind.
going to be used as gun emplacements and field artillery to support the infantry, they won't actually be used as tanks
They were being used as gun emplacements, about a week after the train videos surfaced, ukraine released drone footage of an entire trench line full of dug-in T62's getting potted by artillery, one after the other. maybe the russians learned that digging them in just makes them cheaper to kill?
>theyre going to be used as gun emplacements and field artillery to support the infantry, they won't actually be used as tanks
That was me. Not vatnik shill but it just seemed like the only reasonable use of them.
Oh well.
If you’re not blindly sucking Ukrainian dick and shitting all over Russia just for breathing, then you’re a Russian shill, ivan.
>shitting all over Russia just for breathing
dindu nuffin' vatniks
And that's a good thing!
>shitting all over Russia just for breathing
Yeah. Because, THAT is what's going on. Vodka Black folk never dindu nuffinz.
That's fine anon, we've all been there before.
It's easy to overestimate Russian strategic genius.
t. anon who still doesn't understand how Ukraine's airforce is still doing sorties 4 months in
You got it wrong
>reports of T-62 being sent to the front surface
>"LYING HOHOLS, RUSSIA HAS 2 MILLION MODERN TANKS, THEY ARE NOT SENDING OLD T-62 TO THE WAR"
>pics surface of T-62 being moved into Ukraine and being fielded by russians
>"DUMB HOHOLS THEY WONT BE USED AS TANKS, THEY WILL BE USED AS STATIC GUN EMPLACEMENTS"
>video of a T-62 being used as a tank and being nailed by uki artillery surfaces
Im waiting for the new cope
I’m guessing something along the lines of
“XAXAXAXA hohols so weak Glorious Mother Russia doesn’t even need to use it’s good tanks of which it has one million!!”
Assuming they don’t go with the tried and true “Russia is using old tanks to deplete Ukrop and NATO ammunition! Glorious T-14 will be used in counter attack when Ukrop have no more weapons!”
I don't understand why anyone would support their country like this.
>"Yes our president is sending my son to die in a tuna can so Ukraine wastes an expensive rocket."
>"My country doesn't even need it's glorious new tanks and by killing our own people in old tanks the west will see just what glorious and mighty nation we are!"
They're all deluded
>based Putin is sending minorities, thus saving white Russia
Something like that I presume.
Most of the vatniks we get on PrepHole are not Russian or even European.
They have repeatedly demonstrated they get all their information from the news and are unfamiliar with even basic, everyday things like the climate and weather.
I don't even talk about them, they're just mentally ill.
I'm talking about Russian vatniks that have no problem with all of this.
mobile gun emplacements, i.e. assault guns
They cope by saying Russia is depleting Ukraine's stocks with their older equipment and keeping their modern tanks next to their unicorns.
russia has unicorns?
they have tigers
and S-P-A-C-E
Temporarily.
im happy my guess was accurate LNR and DNR forces were reconstituted with T-62s
Devs gotta lower the BR rating
It looks like real life has no Soviet bias.
Why does the tank keep backing up after the crew bailed out?
He forgot to put it in Park.
Black person their shit is very manual. No Park. Levers and shit.
This is actually a smart play by Russia. They bring in ancient tanks to soak up the modern ATGMs that the west is feeding Ukraine, and then they run out of those modern weapons systems, The Russians can then exert ground supremacy with their more modern tanks.
Ah, the old
>they're using old equipment as fodder before deploying the good stuff
line. It never gets old, just like modern Russian tanks.
>It never gets old, just like modern Russian tanks.
jej
>Biden announces 140,000 additional ATGMs and 600 new tanks to Ukraine
>old Russian equipment is expended
>new Russian equipment is expended
>/chug/ copes that destroying Russia was really the plan all along
>/chug/ copes that destroying Russia was really the plan all along
mein führer... the /chug/ copium supplies have been depleted. but steiners counterattack to relieve the siege of the cum pipeline to serbia will surely set things right.
>steiners counterattack to relieve the siege of the cum pipeline to serbia
Mein monke, the counterattack was successful, but... Serbian demand is outstripping our pumping capacity. What can we do?
>What can we do?
I know this is a joke post and whatever but how do vatniks square this line of reasoning with the fact that Ukraine is constantly being given new gear from NATO?
>vatniks
>reasoning
Wasn't this point abandoned a long time ago? As time went on it became more and more obvious that the t14s were not going to come out, and people just kind of stopped parroting this moronic talking point.
>Wasn't this point abandoned a long time ago?
Naw. When the Ukrainians sunk that snake island supply ship with some harpoons, the Vatniks sperged out how Ukraine was doomed for wasting anti ship missles. They're still very much in the mind set of victory by intercepting guided with their anuses.
Wheelchair copelord is seriously saying that the war is emptying NATO's arsenals.
And here’s the thing.
Even if NATO depleted it’s entire stock of war material giving it to Ukraine, they can always just…build more.
>they can always just…build more.
Exactly this
NATO before 2022 accounted already for more than 50% of the world's spending on military.
Even if 3/4 of that shit was for personnel and infrastructure, it still leaves roughly 250 billions $US to spend on equipement.
This is about 4 times the whole defense budget of Russia.
(2/2)
Worst : NATO is barely mobilized as it is.
USA is using 3% of its economy for the army.
Europe isn't even at 2%
They could increase this to 5 or 6% if need be and the population would barely feel it.
Meanwhile, Russia is over 4% and is struggling against fricking Ukrainians which, while very braves, have barely 1/8 of what Russia has.
Don't forget the sanctions. The rubble is "soaring" because trade volume is 0 and the Gazprom completely tanked its stock yesterday lol
>They could increase this to 5 or 6% if need be and the population would barely feel it.
US is already in recession according to the latest Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate and Biden's approval rating is drilling for oil on his behalf
Funny how they would pay you to take their oil just about a year ago and now the price of oil is fricking up the whole world economy.
>US is already in recession according
Sounds like it needs some heavy resuscitation in a form of spending more money in military industrial complex then
US already overstimulated the economy causing highest inflation in 40 years, don't think it can take more stimulus without going into double digits
Thanks Chang. Atleast some of the shills are qualified to cause some fear, uncertainty and doubt into your enemies hearts.
But you see, HATO spends 99% of its budget on welfare and salaries while glorious POCCNR only pays its men in corrective rapes, so it's actually much more efficient.
>Killing Russians
>A bad use of money
Pick one.
I was in the military for some time and the thing is, even after all that I still wouldn't rate myself as an expert in a lot of things. But if there's one thing people need to understand is the sheer magnitude of the western armaments industry which is capable of making just vast amounts of basically anything you want by sticking money in one end and they just shit out products at the other.
It may not always be great, but its built to a price to do the specific job it was meant to do and even mid-tier military forces will be able to afford enough of it just for them, plus its not just the US footing the bill for this debacle- there's dozens of countries that can chip in just to keep Ukraine solvent then spreading that across anyone who can throw some money in the hat.
People often make a fuss about the Russian tanks being made in the 1000's, but the US made something close to just 10-11,000 M1's and most of them are either mothballed or waiting for some kind of shit to kick off so they can upgrade them and ship them out when/wherever. Barely 20 or 30% would probably be active and in service somewhere.
Field arty is another area when its really cheap to just stick it away for a rainy day, you grease them up good and proper, stick them some place dry and lug them out as-required, even if its not the most modern piece the end result probably can't feel the difference between an M777 or M198 shell landing on them and there would be a good few 100 of them still just sitting around somewhere.
Nothing you said is untrue but then why isn't the US lifting a finger to take M1 Abrams, M198s and M109s out of storage for Ukraine? Fact is the US is not committing itself to helping Ukraine beyond keeping the country afloat. For Western powers the only outcome scarier than a Russian victory is a Ukrainian victory which could destabilise Russia.
>For Western powers the only outcome scarier than a Russian victory is a Ukrainian victory which could destabilise Russia.
kek
We don’t want ukraine to win just yet, we want russia to completely exhaust itself and collapse first
I'm not in the US so I've got no active contacts in the US military that could tell me what they're doing, at best I could speculate is that they're doing some kind of round-robin of sending tanks closer to Ukraine in from neighbouring countries and then the US once its re-fitted their mothballed tanks just dumps the same amount back into the donor. That would sort of make sense in terms of a quick-fix but a higher risk to the donor's security if they suddenly found themselves a few battalions short of armour.
Dunno, guess things will make sense with a bit more info
Ukraine mechanics don't know how to fix an M1
Ukraine tankers don't know how to field-fix an M1
Ukraine logistics don't have M1 parts
M1s are heavier that sovtanks, they'll need different recovery vehicles
Ukraine bridges might not take the weight of an M1
This war has gone 100+ days. How long does it take to train people to do any of that?
To operate an M1? 5 months and weeks Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field under simulated combat.
To become a professional M1 maintainer? 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 16 weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instructions. So 6 months and 2 weeks.
Even if Ukraine had started training repair crews from the very beginning of the war, they still wouldn't be done.
This assumes the retraining already traiend crews and maintenance personnel for new gear would take as long as training someone from ground up. Which just plain isn't true.
That could certainly shave off some training time, but not something like half. Maybe a third. Ish.
There are the other concerns that don't go away, such as weighing a minimum 10-12 more tons than anything else in the theater, and which exceeds road & bridge design by at least as much. Could one cross a 45 ton bridge? Assuming ALL bridges are built to 45 tons? Probably. How many times before the bridge is degraded or destroyed? What happens when 25 tanks need to cross that bridge? One at a time? It's a serious degradation in mobility plus greatly increased time of vulnerability for tanks both on and off the bridge caught in the traffic jam. And all the other vehicles with them.
Speaking of "other vehicles," then also the entire logistics chain of trucks to carry tools, parts, ammo ... and especially the specialized fuel ... to caravan around the battlefields and get in the way of all the other equipment & supplies, etc.
Realistically, what superior capability do they bring to the party that's worth all the extra resources? Resources that may be much more valuable applied in other areas?
There's a Big Picture here that you can't lose for looking at one detail.
> and especially the specialized fuel
My dude…the Abrams uses jet fuel.
And can use diesel as well
The turbines can run on any fuel, but they run them on jet fuel.
Half of what you outlined is unneeded as they wouldn't be pipeliners with no military background needing to learn their right faces and hospital corners in boot.
Why wouldn't they be? Do you think Ukraine has a bunch of spare experienced maintainers that can frick off from the front for six months?
Even with training it takes a much more complicated logistics train to keep an Abrams fighting VS a T-62 that runs on vodka and canabalizes tractors parts. Plus it wouldn't be be much gain because they'll be just as vulnerable since Ukraine doesn't have the means to into combined arms.
Why send the titanium M777 if they could send M198s
>For Western powers the only outcome scarier than a Russian victory is a Ukrainian victory which could destabilise Russia.
At this point, Russia being irrecoverably destabilized is a forgone conclusion. Unless someone grows some balls and a brain and kills Putin right now so all the blame for the invasion and subsequent failure can be placed on him, there’s no way Russia is getting out of this with its reputation intact. It’s honor is already down the drain.
>Fact is
Well, no. Not facts at all, just (You) pulling shit out of your anus and slapping it against that wall to see if it sticks. Destabilizing and crushing Russia until the entire Russian Federation balkanizes is the endgame here. Right now Ukraine is doing a fine job, but if Russia is stupid enough to drag any other countries into it, go ahead and bring it. Endgame will just arrive even faster and more thoroughly.
Now, go ahead and threaten to nuke the world again. Because, fricking bring it.
>Destabilizing and crushing Russia until the entire Russian Federation balkanizes is the endgame here.
Smoothbrain take. The last thing the West wants is for Russia to balkanize. One man with 6,000 nukes is far more easy to contain than 6 men with 1,000. Or 60 with 100, or however else you want to divide it.
The endgame is a resource slave state, entirely dependent on exporting raw materials to the civilized world to ensure its continued, miserable existence.
Look homosexual the tank weight vs bridge rating issue has been explained for you fricking idiots a thousand times over.
Shut the frick up already about it.
Brainlet here, any links for an explanation?
>Big american tank (especially with depleted uranium armor) very fricking heavy
>smol ukranian bridge only carry so much weight
>unga bunga 2+2=4
lolno
there are 2700 active M1s in the US and 3700 inactive ones, this is easily found on wikipedia
Fricking hell. "Throwing good money after bad" is the definition of Russia's strategy since about week 1.
And what does HATO need their stocks for? Chinks have 0 power projection.
Can the military retroactively change the circumstances of a discharge? This dude is a literal malding pedophile paid foreign asset.
What are the 600 tanks? Pattons?
T-72
homie there are thousands of M1A1 and Leopard 2A4 in storages. Not to mention T-72s across former WP nations. Poland and the Czechs alone provided around 300 tanks so far.
Armchair Warlord looks like an Oblivion NPC
I remember when they were saying this when they were sending in waves of T72B3 Obr. 2016's and T80 BVM's.
Good times.
Now it's ironically almost as rare to see an Obr. 2016 as it is to see a T-90A. They really did send over half of their modernized tanks to the slaughter.
In the future, I bet some models of Russian tanks will only exist in Ukrainian museums.
How many wrecks have been confirned? Alternatively, they pulled them back because they were overkill for blowing up structures and were getting BTFO by top attack missiles just like any older tank would
Going off of Oryx, and of course there are only CONFIRMED, there are likely wrecks or abandoned vehicles that have yet to be discovered (these are either destroyed or captured and are literally 100% confirmed with photos):
>26 T-64BV's
>21 T-72A's
>7 T-72AV's
>139 T-72B's
>54 T-72B Obr. 1989
>5 T-72BA
>124 T-72B3
>108 T-72B3 Obr. 2016
>43 T-80BV
>71 T-80U
>2 T-80UK
>5 T-80UE-1
>1 T-80UM2
>27 T-80BVM
>20 T-90A
>1 T-90M
>154 Unknown tanks
For a grand total of:
808, of which destroyed: 461, damaged: 25, abandoned: 50, captured: 272
I guarantee they only have like 500 working tanks left and the rest are being slapped together from spare parts as we speak.
It's fricking embarrassing. Like even the most Vatnik of shill can't look at that list and say Russia is winning. At this point Russia could magically take over the entire country and would still lose due to the sheer amount of tech lost in this war. Their reputation is ruined, their economy is in massive flux that only stabilizes temporarily from government intervention, their most advanced tech has now been publicly shown to the world to be nowhere near the levels of Western tech and public perception of the Russian government by the Russian citizens is likely at all-time lows.
Bruh, I don't care how much you hate Oryx, give me another example of a good source of info that doesn't end in .ru. He has made mistakes sure and has openly admitted them and corrects them. So even if you were GENEROUS and said that 10% of his numbers were wrong, that still changes nothing. Russia has fricking lost against an inferior enemy. Ukraine actually managed to hold Russia back in the early parts of the war despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned until Western tech was able to arrive and push Russia back. It's literally over. As I said above, Russia could magically take over the entire country tomorrow and yet they will have still lost in the end due to the damage to their reputation and lost military tech
The only source they has was zoka.
Who promptly rage quit Twitter after snake island.
Financially, they are uninvestable. No creditor is going to lend them money or company is going to put a location in their country after this. That's the real damage that has been done. After the EU switches to alternatives to Russian oil they will be devastated to the brink of collapse. I expect 2024 to be pretty bad for them assuming they don't burn through their reserves before Q4 2023.
Exactly. That's one of the key points right there. At this point, it doesn't matter if Russia somehow manages to take over the ENTIRETY of Ukraine, they will still have lost out massively in the end
Right now though they're doing alright with gas being so high, but as soon as EU starts to switch they're gonna feel the hurt. I wish Germoney didn't shut down their nuclear plants like idiots because they could have weaned themselves off Russian gas entirely if they had.
Also most of Russia's GDP is fossil fuel based, so as soon as that goes they're looking at 90's era depression and economic collapse. I expect putin to drop out and announce a successor that he controls, lukashenko to be deposed after his Russian allies can no longer prop him up, and maybe China will stop thinking taking Taiwan is a viable strategy.
Apparently it is 10% of all tanks, it by scavenging parts.
My point exactly, 800 are gone by oryx estimates, so maybe 5-700 left that actually work and can be slapped together.
Oryx is moronic though. He doesnt know how to identify a T-72 from T-80 etc.
Never gonna tire of posting this pic.
i like more his encounter with wheelchair gaylord
where he tried to claim the pictures oryx counted are from 2014, while it was T-72s Obj. 2016
Imagine drawing the short straw and having to operate a T-72A straight out of the 80s.
Imagine after 4 months of the 3 day "special military operation" you're given a T-62, T-72A or whatever and told to go fight in it. I'll always be amazed at how Russians can not see anything wrong with that.
lol I used to have that Cyma AK, sold it with the rest of my airshit
>they run out of those modern weapons systems
America just promised Ukraine another 140,000 ATGMs. Does the Russian Army even have 140,000 vehicles of all types put together?
>of all types
Sure. (pic related)
Don't need AT-weapons for most of them though. Regular small arms will do fine.
>IDFK LOL
Who doesn't know the lada Niva?, that's the most iconic commie car just maybe behind the trabant and the yugo.
In every video I've seen all Ukies have unlimited supply of RPGs, which are more than enough to deal with this "tank".
>DPR/LPR constriptovich tanker when he gets the paper with the new (old) strategy
>but was instead travelling alone in the middle of the field as if it were on the same mission as a T72, T80 or T90.
We're what, 120 days into this shit and there's rusBlack folk still driving miss fricking daisy around by themselves with no support, no escorts or cover like its a training mission?
Wait
They do KNOW this is not a training mission don't they?
>They do KNOW this is not a training mission don't they?
Uh, is this why they removed the borders between Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia?
So... its basically free right?
All the way to Moscow or Minsk
>old shitty tanks retired in the 70s and 80s
>Ukraine building a force of modernized tanks
lol, lmao
Guided artillery has literally buck-broken MBT enthusiasts.
I don’t think it was even this bad for battleships back in the day.
Every time I see that pic, I just get more curious about how the frick they even managed to do that. Like, seriously, HOW?
Took a corner WAY too hard going WAY to fast probably. Similar thing happened in a tank biathlon a while back.
It might have fallen off a trailer?
>Previously, on the Vatnik Clown Show ..............
lel
>And the tradition of conscripted frick-sticks continues for ever more
>refreshed by the blood, incompetence and stupidity each year
>this is how we protect our land!
It's ironic, because you two dipahits are shitting on Okrainians 🙂
No, you're the miserable newbie and k has always found conscripts funny
Jews, Finns, Africans, Russians, Arabs or anyone else who ends up in some kind of conscripted or mandatory service will produce hilarious footage
as an IDF serviceman i cant laugh at this
guiding a tank onto a truck is the scariest shit i done in my service by far, and i was sure i was going into gaza last operation
im sure it happens a lot in other armies too
just that conscripts film everything and upload it on social media as if opsec isn't a thing
oh and in the vid it wasn't really the fault of the driver, the gas pedal did really get stuck
i got the investigation report which is marked as unclassified so i can probably post it here
Oryx claims it was a T80BV.
Obviously a bigger loss but I'm still disappointed.
Based Oryx keeping the facts straight (but seriously, how do you mix up a T-80 and a T-62?)
Why are tanks so vulnerable to artillery? Isn't the whole point of a tank that you should be able to charge across the Battlefield impercious against shrapnel?
Artillery technologically advanced with everything else. Even a near miss might damage the tracks and prevent movement, making them an easy target. Tank not moving means you can put one in the turret roof and liquify everyone inside.
>THE WORLD'S FIRST MENTALLY DISABLED RAPPER
jej, e'rry time
That music in combination with the footage makes for abanger, as the zoomers say. I need more.
>but was instead travelling alone in the middle of the field as if it were on the same mission as a T72, T80 or T90.
Why they do this kind of thing?
>Why they do this kind of thing?
Vatniks gonna vat.
Seriously though, they're probably running pretty low on experienced tank crews at this point and their command structure sure ain't getting any better.
Apparently it was a T-80BV.
Explains why there are only three abandoooners on board.
Strangely disappointing, though
>Show up to dunk on T-62M getting reamed.
>Mild disappointment that it was a better, more modern T-80 variant that is inoperable.
This war is kinda weird, guys.
It's great that a T-80 got knocked out and all but we're all eagerly awaiting that first T-62 kill because it's a sure sign of how desperate the Ruskies actually are. A T-62 getting knocked out has MUCH greater implications than the destruction of the actual tank itself.
How is it a loss, if it's not even hit?
How is it 3 crew members, if the driver is still reversing while the 3 others bailed? God this board went downhill fast.
That's a T80BV
T62 remains un(recorded)killed
How come it took like a week between the T-90M being deployed and the first one being destroyed (with a Carl-Gustav) while the T-62 has been in action for over a month.
>first
You're several weeks too late for this title unless you mean "first loss of T-62 used as a field tank instead of in an entrenched position".
It's been confirmed by now that tanks were travelling alone or abandoned in the early weeks because they just broke down. They broke down en masse.
Imagine what the situation must be with these ancient T-62s.