Every three Russian military tanks , one of them was blown up or lost. Oryx website, which specializes in tracking the losses of Russian weapons and equipment, gave the latest data. Since the war started, the Russian army has damaged 1,200 tanks and 2,260 armored vehicles . More than five times that of the First Chechen War in 1994.
Oryx website According to statistics on August 24, the Russian army lost tanks just exceeded 1,000. This shows that during the Ukrainian army's large-scale counterattack operation that lasted more than a month, the Russian army lost more than 200 tanks. Since the war started, 1,200 tanks and 2,260 armored vehicles have been lost, which means that the Russian army has lost 35% of all tanks in service and 12% of all armored vehicles in service.
The Russian army has invested nearly 120 battalion-level combat clusters (BTGs) in Ukraine. With the technical equipment of other troops and the equipment to supplement the battlefield since the war started, the Russian army has invested about 15,000 various tanks, vehicles and equipment in the Ukrainian battlefield, including about 1,200 to 1,500 tanks, plus 500 to 700 local armed tanks in Donbas , which shows that the Russian army has lost half of the tanks participating in the battle on the battlefield.
This is the most conservative and minimum combat damage statistics. Each combat damage tank and armored vehicle has pictures or video evidence. Therefore, the actual tank losses of the Russian army are much greater than that of 1,200 vehicles. The Ukrainian army even claimed to have destroyed 2511 tanks, 5167 armored combat vehicles , 3935 military vehicles , 1556 artillery and 357 multi-barrel rocket launcher .
Since many of the Russian army's combat-damaged tanks were abandoned, the Ukrainian army seized at least nearly 400 tanks, 700 armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles, and more than 160 various artillery pieces of the Russian army. The weapons and equipment seized by the Ukrainian army are enough to form 3 tank brigades and 2 mechanized infantry brigades .
If the Russian army loses more than 1,200 tanks, then Russia is the fourth country that loses tanks in all wars since World War II .
In previous wars after World War II, the number one in the loss of tanks was Iraqi , and 3,700 tanks were lost in the Gulf War. The second place is Syrian , which lost 1,200 tanks in Fourth Middle East War in 1967 and 2,200 tanks in 2011 Syrian War in 2011. Ukraine ranks third in
. According to the Russian army, 5,500 Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicle have been destroyed. In this way, at least 1,500 tanks must be included. Russia ranks fourth in
, with a current score of 1,200 vehicles. Ranked fifth is Egypt , and sixth is Israel.
Feng Shui takes turns. It is generally believed that the Russian army has suffered heavy losses, has lost its strategic offensive capabilities, and has moved into a state of full defense. The Russian army is building a complex and insurmountable anti-tank front in the western part of Luhansk, in order to prevent the attack of the Ukrainian armored torrent.
seems to have got the wrong script. Digging trenches should have been done by Ukraine in the past. After controlling Terni, Zarechnaya and Dibrova, the Russian army did not rush to counterattack on a large scale, but instead built a large-scale defense system to prevent the Ukrainian army from attacking.
This anti-tank defense line is currently called the "Crimina-Swatovo defense line". It is more than ten kilometers long and has built defense equipment such as infantry trenches, transportation trenches, anti-tank trenches, pickets, anti-tank triangular cones, barbed wire and minefields to deal with the attack of the Ukrainian army's tank cluster. The war lasted for nearly 8 months, and a lot of things happened to get the wrong script, which made the outside world unable to understand.
Due to the loss of a large number of tanks on the front line, Russia even reopened the T-62 "antique" tank.
According to news from the Russian Armed Forces Red Star TV, a member of the Russian State Duma National Defense Committee, representative of the Russian Party’s Duma , former deputy commander of the Russian Southern Military Region, and commander of the former 58-based corps of the combined army, Lieutenant General Andrei Gurulev, recently inspected the 103rd armored repair shop in Chita, Russia’s Far East. The factory is currently repairing a large number of T-62 tanks stored in the Far East base.
Red Star Station reported that the 103rd Armored Repair Factory received a large contract from Russian Ministry of Defense , responsible for unsealing and renovating 800 Т-62 tanks. The repair shop has started high-intensity production of three shifts to complete this large order.
T-62 tanks are very old and have been in service as early as the 1960s. They participated in the Battle of Zhenbao Island in Sino-Soviet. Now there is a T-62 tank array captured by the People's Liberation Army in the Military Museum. So, why did Russia unseal and renovate this "antique" tank? Rather than urgently producing new tanks?
The main reason is that Russia currently does not have the technical ability to produce hundreds of sets of tank electronic equipment every year. Russia is not without tanks, but Russia cannot quickly produce new tanks with modern electronic equipment, such as the most modern thermal imaging equipment and communication systems, and can only unseal old-fashioned simplified tanks like the T-62.
The old tanks in the past were actually just a big iron lump of dozens of tons, without thermal imaging, precision optics, fire control computers and electronic information equipment. There is basically no difference between old and new in old tanks. They have a three-level maintenance system. They are repaired in small quantities and overhauls for large quantities. Tanks can be improved and upgraded while overhauling. Old tanks after overhauls are the same as new tanks. Moreover, old tanks can be overhauled many times, and there will be no problem in using them for a hundred years.
This Russian-Ukrainian war has become a sad place for the main battle tanks. It was clearly a duel between two mechanized armies, and they fought to become a fight type trench war flesh mill. It is rare to see direct duels between tanks on the battlefield, and a large number of tanks are regarded as mobile turrets. A large number of tanks were wiped out by light anti-armor weapons.
No matter how good your martial arts are, you are afraid of javelins. If you have a better tank, you will be reimbursed. Therefore, with the combat state on the Ukrainian battlefield, there is really no need for new tanks. No one has seen the tank performance that was highly concerned about in the past. There is not much difference between an T-90 tank and an tank on the battlefield. To put it more exaggeratedly, hundreds of refurbished T-34-85 tanks can still be used to fight with great success, killing seven in seven out.
