“Oryx estimates Ukraine has lost 560 tanks but has captured almost as many Russian tanks – 544.”
That is wild.
I thought oryx disbanded because they couldn’t keep up. Hopefully something changed because they were very good with verified equipment losses.
The article commits way too much ink to wax poetic about a tank Russia managed to produce 8 entire specimens of in a decade. T-14 is not real because there is no production line for it, and now there never will be one either. No inputs, no money, no economy to back advanced systems that require technology from abroad, no capability to make such tech domestically.
But what’s more interesting is the fact that we haven’t seen significant daily tank losses in a good several months now, suggesting they’re not really sitting In meaningful concentrations anywhere in Ukraine. There’s simply not as many left, even with the nearly world war 2 era units.
On top of this, with Russian tanks now being few and far between, Russian artillery is rapidly approaching a similar state. So are APCs and so are fuel trucks.
I can’t wait to see how Russia uses a military armed with shovels to keep 11 time zones and 83 shat off federal subjects in line.
More and more we are seeing pictures of reliantly destroyed Russian Tanks that did not do a turret toss. Does this mean that they had little or no ammunition on board to explode and toss the turret. Just an observation, but earlier in the war the tanks almost always tossed the turret when they burned but less and less now.
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“Oryx estimates Ukraine has lost 560 tanks but has captured almost as many Russian tanks – 544.”
That is wild.
I thought oryx disbanded because they couldn’t keep up. Hopefully something changed because they were very good with verified equipment losses.
The article commits way too much ink to wax poetic about a tank Russia managed to produce 8 entire specimens of in a decade. T-14 is not real because there is no production line for it, and now there never will be one either. No inputs, no money, no economy to back advanced systems that require technology from abroad, no capability to make such tech domestically.
But what’s more interesting is the fact that we haven’t seen significant daily tank losses in a good several months now, suggesting they’re not really sitting In meaningful concentrations anywhere in Ukraine. There’s simply not as many left, even with the nearly world war 2 era units.
On top of this, with Russian tanks now being few and far between, Russian artillery is rapidly approaching a similar state. So are APCs and so are fuel trucks.
I can’t wait to see how Russia uses a military armed with shovels to keep 11 time zones and 83 shat off federal subjects in line.
More and more we are seeing pictures of reliantly destroyed Russian Tanks that did not do a turret toss. Does this mean that they had little or no ammunition on board to explode and toss the turret. Just an observation, but earlier in the war the tanks almost always tossed the turret when they burned but less and less now.