1) Over half of the Visually confirmed and identified (by @WarSpotting ) Russia tank losses this month are T-62s!
That is to say of the 12 Russian tank losses in July, 9 can be identified by type, 2 T-90s, T-72s and 5 T-62s.
There are caveats: 🧵
That is to say of the 12 Russian tank losses in July, 9 can be identified by type, 2 T-90s, T-72s and 5 T-62s.
There are caveats: 🧵
2)
a) With only 12 tank losses this is not a statistically significant sample.
b) Even if continued continued for many months, it does not necessarily mean that the majority of russian tanks are T-62s, it may be that older tanks are more vulnerable so lost more.
a) With only 12 tank losses this is not a statistically significant sample.
b) Even if continued continued for many months, it does not necessarily mean that the majority of russian tanks are T-62s, it may be that older tanks are more vulnerable so lost more.
3) With the caveats out the way, this is what that looks like on a graph, T-62 losses (orange) are spiking, T-90s (green) also a record proportion of the total, T-72s down(yellow) and no T-80s (blue) so far this month.
4) Plotting the T-62 sub-variants, gives this graph, it jumps about because the numbers are normally small. there have been a small number of very old modals (blue) most have been T-62M (Orange) with about 1/5 T-62MV (yellow) over the last 6 months about half of both of those have been the 'modernised' Obr 2022 variants of those two (gray and blue respectively)
5) I don't know about you, but this makes me what to buy all the Ukrainian armed forces a Beer, they definitely deserve it. I cant do that, but I understand what they really what at the moment are a few more drones to destroy even more Russian tanks, and they way I do that is though @wilendhornets if you wish to join me the links here.
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