1) For the first time in two and a half years, Russia has not lost (Visually Confirmed) a single T-90 Tank for a whole month. (and only the second month of the war, after July 2022)
I think they are now very low on their best Main Battle Tank, in working condition. 🧵
2) Overall, Russia is only visually confirmed to have lost 151 T-90s, but a portion of the 333 'Unknown Tanks' will also be T-90s, and others will have been lost and not photographed. At any point in time, there will be some damaged tanks that will need repairs.
3) Russia claimed to have made 60 T-90Ms in 2021; this number might be accurate, but I suspect it includes many upgrades from T-90As.
They also claim to have increased production to 18 a month. To achieve anything close to this, All (or almost all) will have been upgraded.
4) But the thing about 'Upgrades' is you eventually run out of old tanks to upgrade. I suspect Russia effectively Ran out of T-90As to upgrade at least 6 months ago.
New build T-90M will be much more complicated/slower, especially with both international sanctions and with lots of other parts of the Russian defence industry competing for resources.
5) T-90s have always been small as a share of total tank losses, but they have been falling since April 24.
Russia may be keeping a T-90 M-equipped elite unit in reserve, ready to respond to any mutiny in the rest of the army. If this is the case, it's probably a small unit.
6) To finish, can I thank @warspotting for their work to Visually Confirm all Russian losses and make their data available on their website, warspotting.net
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