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The T-90 is Russia’s most-advanced tank, with the base model entering service in 1992. Production ramped up in the late-2000s.
The T-90M is the latest version of the tank, first entering service in 2016.
Russia is thought to field around 1,000 of all T-90 variants, compared to around 5,000 T-72s - the tank the T-90 is based on and which has done the bulk of the fighting in Ukraine.
The incredible footage emerged as Russian tanks, trucks and artillery are amassing in southern Ukraine. Putin’s forces are seeking to tighten their grip on the region amid a valiant counter-offensive by Kyiv.
The Kherson region near Crimea has been under Kremlin control since March 2 after a bloody six-day battle, with Russians driving north from the occupied peninsula.
Yet the invaders have faced intense pushback by Ukraine over recent weeks, with Kyiv now confident it will liberate the region by September.
According to the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) daily intelligence update this morning: ‘Long convoys [...] continue to move away from Ukraine’s Donbas region and are headed southwest.’
The £3million weapon of war”
I find it interesting Ukraine Bob would use that particular term.
I wouldn’t want to be within a mile when that thing blew-up.
Putin has 3 million dollar tanks....
We have multi-billion dollar carriers with billions in aircraft on them along with thousands of sailors.
Modern warfare is going to devolve to small and numerous from big and complex. It is inevitable.
Well, either the Russians are more efficient builders than the US, or it isn’t much of a ‘super-tank’... about half the price of a U.S. Abrams tank.
So Russia tanks cost a third of what the M1A2 costs. Who knew.
To put the cost into perspective, £3M is almost 2% of the money that the Biden family made from the “Ukraine war” this year, all with the full-throated support of “conservatives” in Congress.
With anti-tank missiles everywhere these days, the main battle tank is becoming like the battleship when air power made it obsolete. Tanks are just big targets now.
In the US that 3 million tank would cost us 40 million..
This requires ammo to be stored in the crew compartment, which has proved catastrophic. Fixing it would require a complete redesign. This was already a known issue with the T34 in WWII where German gunners using smaller caliber weapons were directed to aim between the bogies, as ammo was stored on the other side in the crew compartment. Germans has a similar problem on the sides of their tanks, which led then to hang steel sheets off the sides.
A single tank blown up is newsworthy now? Must be summer vacation season. I hear the Black Sea coast is nice.
Gee I hate it when that happens
I know who is losing when the destruction of one tank is worth a boasting article.
Makes you wonder if the M1A1 Abrams could survive in such a situation.
After three days of light fighting they stumbled into one of the largest Iraqi armored formations and annihilated it with cannons, TOW missiles and mortars in the Battle of 73 Easting, often called “the last great tank battle of the 20th century.”
Then-Capt. (now Lt. Gen.) H.R. McMaster, commander of Eagle Troop, 2nd Squadron, 2nd ACR, literally wrote the book on the battle and commanded one of the lead elements in the fight.
The video is worth watching
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mnet-001&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mnet¶m1=3093¶m2=84460&p=Battle+of+73+Easting%2C+video&type=type9014486-spa-3093-84460#action=view&id=1&vid=83e1b993d0a4ef2c49e9b0feabf47864
On July 30, 1845, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was attacked and sunk by a Japanese sub. That didn't mean Japan was winning the war.