Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

And how did you figure out that they are transferring them into the war zone?
They are transferring them SOMEWHERE.
Cleaning/optimizing the warehouses is the same good hint.
Or they are going for melting.
Or disassembling, as some parts can be reused for 62s.

Arrow wrote:Why is Russia downloading the T-55 when the production of the T-90M is really booming? Plus repairs to the T-72B.

1. How do we know where these tanks are being taken?
2. Even IF these tanks are being taken to participate in battles - why should it be bad?
Each of these tanks can be used as a pillbox, strengthening roadblocks and strong points in the rear of deployed troops. They can also be used as infantry support to maintain the pace of military operations and spending 100-mm shells intended for them, while the Russian industry focuses on replenishing the supply of shells for more current tank models. I do not see the danger of any large-scale tank battles in the near future, so that we can be afraid that the T-55s will be irrelevant against modern Western MBT. A link of 3 T-55s and a pair of Terminator BMPT attached to them as support still pose the highest degree of threat to any motorized formations of Ukraine on the battlefield, but at the same time they will allow creating a shock fist of T-72/T-80/T-90 in more important sectors of the front, acting in low-intensity combat zones.
3. This is a moronic Western prejudice against T-55 tanks. If you are on the receiving side, you will definitely NOT like fighting with a tank, even if it is a T-34-85, what can we say about the T-55 and T-62 that have undergone modernization. If Russia connects these two decommissioned models to the battle, then it can put not 3,000 tanks in the theater of operations, but 6,000 or 7,000. A tank developed in 1948 is still a tank, damn it, and to break through its armor, you still need something more powerful than the standard infantry infantry weapons.

https://t.me/otryadkovpaka/19244

Medvedev 's speech: ... think about it, Sergey, and then they tell me - you live in an outcast country, subjected to international isolation with an economy torn to shreds.

Arrow wrote:https://t.me/otryadkovpaka/19244

So, we have a confirmed defeat of the target by a T-90M tank at a distance of 5060 meters.

It's a missile.
Nothing unusual.

Post lancelot Today at 5:44 pm
The T-55 is obsolete as a tank

Sure it is.
In a tank role.
Yet all the footage from the theatre presents a huge supply of ammo for D-10T derivatives, so lack of ammo or disturbing the logistic chain is the last concern. Used for AT guns, but those are just same.
Seems that both sides are vastly using those. From Russkie perspective, republican units are the most obvious end users.

The situation changes if we consider it as a mobile strongpoint. Put some sandbags around, and you have something resistant to all platoon-level ATGM/support weapons the Ukrs have. Neither NLAW nor Javelin will pierce through a sandbag and a tank standing behind, both lack the penetration.
The same applies to most of the weapons delivered to Ukrowehrmacht. Hardly any of those pierce more than 500 mm. And that is an edge of T-55AM with BDD applied.

Can't remember who asked about missile usage but the answer is yes.
Both T-55 and BMP-3 are using the same GLATGM, and it is the same as used for T-62. Requires the same laser beam riding emitter.

Another attack attempt and another failure in a moment.

Gore warning.

https://t.me/intelslava/46102

Piles of Ukro spam.
I can't even call the number of such materials this week, and we have only Wednesday...

I will repeat that again and again, for all the folks who are in the western shitstream.

The called number of "200k KIA" is not valid. There are more than 300k for sure, the question is if they have already hit the 350.

All that blood is on the hands of ... you know whose.

Edit :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWu1cwC8S_Y&ab_channel=ZvezdaLive9.0

(it is live so no idea if it lasts on Zvezda stream?)

A very good interview with Kiril Fiodorov. Some of you may know him as an author of YT channel "Istoria oruzha" - Histor of weapon.
Recognizable armored things enthusiast, Latvian citizen.
Jailed in March 2022 for figuring out thesis, forced to reconcile and spy for Latvia, finally freed and in Russia. While still a Latvian citizen.

He speaks quite important things about the fate of Russian diaspora in such called 'eurodemocracies'.
Don't fool yourselves, the situation in 404 is a row way worse than that.

From left to right >> Bastion for the Rapira and the T-55. I think the slightly shorter one is for the T-55? In the center is the Sheksna for the T-62 followed by the Kastet for the BMP-3. Finally the missile itself.

There is one more called Arkan and Arkan-M, all fit different guns.
How easily they put a rifled gun missile to smoothbore one is another story of genie of Soviet engineering.
Unmatched.

The situation changes if we consider it as a mobile strongpoint.

Take the current situation in Zaporoshye as an example. The enemy attacks with 50 M113´s.
Artillery and ATGM´s will destroy most of them, helicopters will have fun, too. But a few could
go through... and meet a handful of good old T-62 or even T-55 tanks.  
Sure, a BTR-82 or BMP-2/-3 could do the job, but they can´t be everywhere along a 1.000+km
frontline.


Svatovo area

BTR can be penetrated by 12.7, and BMP-2 by 14.5.

55s can be penetrated only by RPG, not all of them, and hardly by any of those if sandbags are applied.

A hint: Israelis and tank-made strongholds at crucial spots.

It took a serious ATGM supplied from Iran to take those down, on occasion.

A funny story : no NATO country has the ATGMs that would match the Iranian ones.

How interesting

Oh yeah and add a prayer for the ammunition to work...

Ammo is Made in Russia. 99% will work.

no NATO country has the ATGMs that would match the Iranian ones.

Because Iran had the foresight to copy Kornet. 

Looks like Russia has succeeded in turning the entire Donbass & Kherson front into a duck-hunt by now. Nicely done. +90% of Ukrainian forces are simply detonated by artillery with no losses on the Russian side, with a minimum of their own artillery for our troops to contend with in turn, even the HIMARS seem to be falling into ever more scarce use.

Despite all the naysayers talking about how long its taking to liberate Bakhmut, dooming over Kherson being withdrawn from, exasperating over no grand offensives being launched, complaining about the pace of advances.. all of this noise was for nothing. Because the only thing that counts is attaining the largest possible firepower superiority and then keeping it, for as long as the enemy is dumb enough to keep attempting to fight conventionally and toe-to-toe at any rate.