Thread by @Trotes936897

Here's the real reason why Russia lost 2,157 tanks in the Ukraine war, I promise I won't use data from the second world war like the other guy.

It's a short read 🧵

We can start by showing the main points

1: They don't know how to fight in modern warfare with the tanks they have

2: Their tanks are not suitable for modern warfare

3: They don't care about human or material losses.

At the beginning of the war it became clear that the Russians were incompetent in using their own vehicles, normally they just wandered alone in Ukraine until they ran out of fuel and were abandoned to later be captured by some farmer.

The lack of doctrine and experience was clear even when forming convoys, with large formations of vehicles practically glued together in the middle of highways and houses, which It provided space for ambushes using Artillery or ATGMs

When these tanks were not lost to a farmer or destroyed in convoys, they were dropped into cities without any infantry support and were easily destroyed by infantry on top of buildings, something they should have learned to deal with after Chechnya.

To this day, this lack of responsibility is seen, not so much in an urban environment. But with the large convoys of vehicles almost glued to each other in open field, etc. Crews often don't even what to do to get out of that situation and many end up dying.

looks like The Russians don't get around these problems because they don't care about losing people or equipment since, in theory, they have many human and material resources. They never cared about casualties and if 2 million Russians die in this war they will still make a film.

In the final part of the topic is the fact that the vast majority of Russian tanks are not suitable for modern warfare. With serious deficiencies in all major and important areas, Such as battlefield management, reverse speed, protection and situational awareness.

A good Reverse Speed ​​is extremely important, especially for the vehicle to be able to exit from the battlefield without having to expose the weakest part of the tank. Apart from the T-80, all tanks have a horrible reverse speed and the result is below

Ammunition protection is not the best, apart from the T-90M in all Russian tanks the extra ammunition and propellants are spread throughout the turret and hull and have no protection at all, The carousel also does not have adequate protection for the propellants.

Tanks also suffer from several weaknesses, the T-80BVM and T-90M have much better protection than the T-72B3, but even so, most of the vehicles they have would be the T-72 has several weaknesses between ERA armor and more and more old vehicles with worse protection are in Ukraine

They also have a serious problem when it comes to the crew's situational awareness, the commander only has a very old night vision system that is not stabilized and from what I remember the maximum sight range is 200 Meters the only vehicle with CITV in service is the T-90M.

Resume: they lost so many vehicles because they don't have vehicles suitable for modern warfare,they don't know how to use tanks in modern warfare and they don't they care about human or material losses. This all resulted in more than 2.000 tanks lost over 2 years.

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