[Military Martial Plane] Author: leon
Recently, according to the war briefing released by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the 2nd of this month, since February 24, the Russian army has destroyed 1,888 Ukrainian tanks and or heavily armored vehicles, which does not count the 1,771 military vehicles lost by the Ukrainian army. Similarly, in the field of long-range support weapons, the Ukrainian army has also suffered a lot. It is reported that the Ukrainian army has also lost 793 long-range artillery and 205 long-range rocket launchers.
It is not difficult to see that compared with the Russian Army armored combat cluster with greater combat advantages, the comprehensive gap with the Russian Army tank armored forces is too great, so in the early stage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the tank troops of the Ukrainian Army basically lost their combat effectiveness at an extremely fast speed, resulting in the Ukrainian Army now that in addition to relying on the individual weapon for "guerrilla" defense, the Ukrainian Army has almost lost its ability to conduct an effective land counterattack.
▲The Ukrainian Army now mainly relies on individual weapons to carry out "guerrilla warfare" resistance to the Russian armored cluster, and its offensive ability is relatively lacking
However, for the United States, it seems that it does not want to see this battle situation become a foregone conclusion. On April 1, a US media reported that at the request of the current Ukrainian president, the United States will coordinate with its allies in a cooperative manner and will transport some tanks made in the Soviet era to Ukraine. However, the US media did not disclose what model and number of these Soviet-era tanks that aid Ukraine.
I believe everyone can guess that as the "AK-47" in the tank industry, the most widely equipped Soviet tank in the world is the famous veteran T-72. After all, the main force of the army of many allies in the United States and Eastern Europe is mainly this tank. Moreover, if the United States wants to aid Ukrainian military tanks, it is very likely that these T-72s built during the Soviet period will be transported from Eastern Europe to Ukraine, thus allowing Ukrainian tank armor clusters to regain combat effectiveness.
▲The early models of T-72 have now gradually been at a disadvantage under the offensive of various modern anti-tank means. There is a big gap between its comprehensive combat strength and modern advanced main battle tanks. Of course, Given that the United States has purchased a batch of T-84 main battle tanks from Ukraine, the United States may also have the possibility of sending this batch of T-84 tanks back to Ukraine. Of course, it is not ruled out that the US military will also "scoop" some PT-91 from Polish to Ukraine. For Ukraine, this batch of tanks aided from NATO is likely to be mainly powered by the early model of T-72, and may also have some T-84 and PT-91 tanks as auxiliary forces.
On the surface, the US military may provide Ukraine with an unignorable land armor force, which may allow Ukraine to add some bargaining chips to break the status quo of war. However, for Russia, the deterrence power of this batch of tanks may be relatively limited. After all, for Russia, its main force of the army is already the T-72B3 tank with deep-strengthened firepower, aiming, defense, and power system.
▲The Russian army also equipped a large number of T-90M tanks on the same level as modern advanced main battle tanks. Their detection, perception, and protection capabilities may form a generation difference with the early T-72 tanks . This is not finished. Among them, there are more Russian three-generation and a half-generation tanks such as T-90, T-80 and even T-90M armored clusters with elite forces. These elites may have a certain generation difference from the standard three-generation tanks such as early T-72. Even if Ukraine finally installed these early T-72 tanks with NATO-assisted tanks, their combat effectiveness may be quite different than that of the Russian army.
Moreover, the Russian Army tank troops may not have to face the head-on battle with these old-fashioned T-72s. You should know that the Russian army now deploys a certain number of Card-52 heavy armament in Ukraine, and these Card-52s are likely to have been equipped with Germes-A long-range anti-tanks with a range of 20 kilometers. What's more, the Russian army now generally has Ukrainian air supremacy . In theory, the air maneuver range of Card-52 will not be too restricted.
▲Because the Ukrainian Army now has almost no established field air defense system, the Ka-52 can "full" play its combat advantages of "tank killer"
At that time, the Ka-52 may be able to suppress this batch of NATO-assisted T-72 with the advantage of over-visual range strike. Therefore, unless Ukraine obtains a certain number of field air defense systems, this condescending advantage may directly cause the tanks to be "sent" on the battlefield. Even if the Russian army does lack the precise guided weapon now, the Ka-52 can also launch a "cyclone-M" guided rocket to carry out range-based killing of the Ukrainian army's tank cluster.
Of course, the most real situation may be that the Ukrainian army will be destroyed by the Russian army's guided weapons before sending this batch of T-72s in. You should know that the guided weapons used by the Russian army are mainly aimed at various armament storage points in Ukraine. The Russian army will not "save money" in this regard. You should know that precisely destroying Ukraine's underground arsenal was the first significant result of the "Dagger" supersonic missile a few days ago.
▲The Russian army's advanced guided weapons are now carrying out the tasks of attacking key military nodes of Ukraine
So, for these tanks, if they enter Ukraine through land transportation, the vehicles transporting these tanks are likely to be "greetings" by Russia's precise guided weapons. You should know that many other NATO military aid were lost halfway through this way. Therefore, in the future, the prospects for this batch of tanks that the United States aided Ukraine will play is not optimistic.
