We hear a lot about western tank deliveries to Ukraine, but hardly anything about their own production and repair capabilities.
Is Ukraine still producing T-64s and 80s or are they mostly concerned with repairing what they have and have captured?
We hear a lot about western tank deliveries to Ukraine, but hardly anything about their own production and repair capabilities.
Russia T64: le bad
Ukriane T64: le good
Correct.
Keep up with the times
Russia: T54 obr 2023
Ukraine: T64 zr 2023
>T64 zr 2023
T-64 zr 2022 was literally undergoing field trials just before the invasion
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/kharkiv-armored-plant-runs-tests-of-t-64bv-mod-2022-tank/
Literally yes
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/53279066/#53283589
>https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/53279066/#53283589
>Those digits
>Linking us to a reply almost EXACTLY A YEAR AGO TODAY.
>BLOWS THE FRICK OUT OF WHO YOU WERE REPLYING TO.
If you are interested, I've translated some other stuff as well
Are you fricking kidding this stuff for me is what shit is to a fly.
I can barely find anything on contemporary modernisation/production of Ukrainian equipment. For good reason I know, but I still like to know as much as I can.
Ukies are licensed to deploy whatever shit they have. They never pretend to be 2nd of world.
Russia T62: le bad
Ukriane T64: le good
Your terms are acceptable
yes you moron
Correct observation anon
>but hardly anything about their own production and repair capabilities
Because all information about it is extremely dangerous, if Russians know where tanks are repaired they will actually bomb that place.
Also, repairing is easier than building new and there's so much damaged tanks in Ukraine that I'd assume all available resources go to repair
Seems that khrakiv still is building new BTR-4.
>mostly concerned with repairing what they have and have captured
this plus modernization of preexisting tank fleet
I assume they could in theory get western FCS and thermals to slap onto older vehicles to increase their capabilities
Well, previous modernizations used domestic Ukrainian optics, which were surprisingly good, all things considered. Not sure what's going on now, as one of the key factories producing optics was in Izium
Fortunately war is a competition and ukr tanks need only have better range and acc than Russian tanks to kill them. So homemade Ukrainian equipment or old western kit would be more than sufficient.
Having modern challengers and Abrams sniping Russian tanks at 15km+ whilst Russian optics only see upto 5km would get boring
I always wanted to know how come Ukrain didn't try to make IFV's out of T-72s, just T-64s and T-62s, and I think T-55 but I'm not sure about that.
There was that whole period where at least on wikipedia Ukraine had put their T-72s in reserve and gone all in with the T-64.
Because Ukraine has T-64 factory and no T-72 factory. It's simply economically viable
Clearly not, The IFVs were proof of concepts that often never went anywhere, and I presume any sufficiently large workshop of fitters and turners can produce concept vehicles based on adaptions of whatever military equipment. Israel never had a T-64 factory, or a T-62 factory, or a T-55 factory, or a Centurion factory for that mattor. IFVs from all of those models though.
There were such attempts, look no further than "Azovets'". But the thing is, it's both cost ineffective and would require to repurposing preexisting tank hulls, which are exist in limited numbers. And it would strain supply chains even more.
>There was that whole period where at least on wikipedia Ukraine had put their T-72s in reserve and gone all in with the T-64.
There was very limited number of them in the first place. You should look into T-72 article here (
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That is quite the kitbash.
Is that just fricking welded steel?
The dismount compartment? Yeah
The factory's got destroyed by March/April last year.
lately there were talks to repair/refurbish Ukrainian tanks in Poland - that might mean that Poland is running out of mothballed t72s to reactivate.... or Ukrainians are running out of industrial base/engineers to do it themselves
I think the Morozov plant is mostly rubble now, hence the need to set up shop elsewhere.