Posted on 05/05/2022 6:00:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Yeah but you’re gonna need a heap load of 24 grit sandpaper.
That’s not an Armada. The T90 is still just an updated 50 year old design. Hardly a “super-tank.” In their day they out numbered NATO tanks three to one which was the Soviet doctrine at the time.
Drone tanks.
Drone mines...crawl along the ground underneath the tank...then BOOM...
The problem is the tank cost $3 million the tank killer cost $100,000 too $200,000. The economic attrition is terrible. Russia can’t get micro chips so there is no replacement tanks.
The problem is the tank cost $3 million the tank killer cost $100,000 too $200,000. The economic attrition is terrible. Russia can’t get micro chips so there is no replacement tanks.
Agreed. They have shown a complete inability to manufacture a usable number of improved tanks, so whenever they get around to trying to rebuild their tank inventory, it’s going to be with more of the flawed T-64/T-72 core design.
Each T-14 costs the Russians about $1m less than a T-90.
Forgive me if that doesn’t inspire confidence wondering what corners they cut for the new rolling target.
For the last few weeks, the fronts in eastern Kharkov and the northern Donbass have been functionally merging, and now these areas cannot be viewed separately.
As I’ve described previously, Russia’s strategy differs greatly from the rapid-advance, “leave as many enemy behind us as possible” days of late February and early March.
It’s now one of very slow, deliberate grinding down of Ukrainian forces through massed artillery, aerial bombing, ground and sea-based missile attacks, nighttime commando raids, and occasional tank raids against weakened positions.
The Ukrainians bring up forces, they get wasted, they bring up more, get wasted, and slowly Russia (and the Donetsk forces further east) move in.
There is clearly no hurry to advance; the main goal is to wear out the Ukraine’s human resources—and then, ultimately, there will come a breaking point, and everything will take care of itself.
Based on extensive prisoner accounts, today, we may confidently say that the majority, perhaps SIZEABLE majority, of Ukrainian forces deployed to the northern sector—with fighting primarily between Kharkov city and the Russian border, and then Izium southeast to Yampol’—were NOT in uniform as of February.
They are mobilized inactive-reservists, draftees, or (deployed from their home regions, in violation of their contracts) Territorial Defense militia.
What this tells you, is that the regular army has taken very substantial losses (likely including through desertion.)
I previously estimated that casualties in the northern sector since early April have been at least 3:1 in Russia’s favor. I now believe it’s more like 4:1.
It is telling that the Ukraine has failed to document even just one new Russian prisoner in the last few weeks (unless I missed something—but I don’t miss much.)
Many Ukrainian bodies will never be recovered—for example, those hit directly with an Iskander tactical ballistic missile (see below for demonstration purposes only), of which Russia continues to shoot at least several per day, each and every day, at Ukrainian sector command posts and platoon or company-sized strongpoints.
That’s a heck of a stutter you’ve got there.😏
Live-Fire test -— FAILED
Didn’t take long to reduce that one to a burnt-out hulk. I’d like to see the Armata tank (which I sometimes confuse with the T-90) rolled out to see what Ukraine does with it. I believe the Armata is a T-14. Russia claims it can match the newest Abrams, but we know how Russia’s “claims” go.
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