1) With so much news coming from the war, this almost feels redundant, but here is my update🧵on Russia Tank losses, again T-80s losses out numbered T-72s, but not by as much as the last few months, T-90 losses are stedy, but T-62 Losses are down.
2) The first graph does not include 'Unknown Tank' which have been increasing and were over 25% in May (Black in this graph) this adds an extra layer of uncertainty on this, but I will persevere anyway.
3) T-90 losses, Q2 has so far only been T-90Ms. I don't know how many T-90As are left, but I suspect its very few now, the rest having been destroyed or upgraded to T-90M, but possibly some that have been forgotten.
4) T-80s: For the last few months 70% of T-80 losses have been the Obr 2022 variants (gray) most of the rest are BV or BVM, (orange) there may still be an ocatianly U (blue) out there left as well!
5) T-72s, similarly to the T-80s most of these 70% are T-72B3 Obr 2022 (green) or the 1 Obr 2025 which I have added to the Obr 2022s for simplicity. also there has been a rise in the very old T-72s, don't know if this is a blip or a trend yet.
6) I've simplified the T-62 Graph, putting all the Obr 2022s together, and in may they were 100% of the losses of T-62s. this might be an outlier. However the bigger story is why are total T-62 losses down, from 22% in december to 10% now. I don't know, I would like to think that they have run out of reparable T-62s and maybe that's true, but its not a safe conclusion to run to, perhaps the Russian have decided they are not worth the effort?
It might be that they are overrepresented in the 'Unknow Tank' category. or just a blip. Id be interested in other theories insiders knowledge.
7) The IFV to Tank loss ratio was almost exactly 3 in may, down form its peek in December, but up from were it was for the fist 2 1/2 years of the war.
8) A big thank you as always to the amazing people @WarSpotting for collating this data and making it available. here is the data table I use.
Also please can I ask a favour of any person form the UK reading this, please can you sine this petition created by @RossRitchie12 we really should be given Ukraine everything we can, and I'm sure they will appreciate 600 IFVs even if they are a bit old.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7191…
@WarSpotting @RossRitchie12 9) Also for those asking, I will defiantly be adding the 13 from the train to the tables. (If they can be identified and added to warspoting.) however if they are all from the same type they might skew the losses a bit so that caviate needs to be remembered.
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