Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost 75 Tanks in December so far, which is more than any month in 2023 except February and October. Here is a short thread of how that breaks down, data. table at the end. 1/n
This graph is the same data as the first but with a 3-month smoothing. T-72s and T-80s between them remain the main types of tank. T-90, T-64, T-62, and T-55 are all small numbers in comparison. it looked like the T-80 was growing in comparison to the T-72 for the first 16 months of the war, before maxing out at 51% and then declining, December has seen a rise in the % of T-80s, not clear if this is 'monthly variation' or a new trend. 2/n
Looking in detail at the T-90, I have 2 graphs because the numbers are so low that a 3 month Bar chat is better to see the change. there has been an almost complete change from T-90As to T-90Ms, suggesting that the T-90As have either all been destroyed or withdrawn to be upgraded to T-90Ms. There was a brief appearance of T-90S but that's gone now. the T-90S is the 'export only' variant, these tanks were probably the ones meant for India and used because of an extreme shortage of tanks at that time.
The T-80s have also seen a change in variant from mostly T-80U to T-80BV, with some T-80BVMs thought out. The T-80BVM is an ongoing upgrade from the T-80BV and was running at about 40 a year before the war. The T-80B is an older model and was thought to have all been upgraded to BV variants, That must be incorrect because we have now seen 3 destroyed, this suggests to me that they are near the back of reparable T-80s to me.
With 12 variants of T-72 I have both simplified and full charts, at first glance they don't seem to be showing a pattern, other than a new rise in unidentified T-72 which is why I created a new chart, in the next tweet.
There are 2 separate modules of Orb 2022, T-72B Orb 2022 and T-72 B3 Orb 2022. there are also a lot of 'unidentified but definitely an Obr 2022 modal. And it seems that Russia is rapidly converting its T-72B and B3s to this standard. It is worth noting that they are not as sophisticated as a T-72B3 Orb 2016.
All of my data comes from here are the data tables, I use to make the graphs. Thred end. WarSpotting.net
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