The Russians Are Using Their Old T-54 Tanks As Pillboxes
Finanzas Los rusos están usando sus viejos tanques T-54 como pastilleros Hace 3 minutos Noticias de Bitcoin Ethereum T-54s and T-55s ‘en route’ from Crimea to southern Ukraine. Via War Zone A trainload of six-decade-old T-54 and T-55 tanks, trundling from Russian-occupied Crimea toward the front line in southern Ukraine, is a stark reminder of the sheer violence of Russias 16-month-old wider war on Ukraine. The Russians need those ancient tanks because theyve lost more than 2,000 modern tanks—and no longer have the luxury of only deploying the best armored vehicles. They must make do. But that‘s not to say the Russian army expects the units receiving the 1950s- and ’60s-vintage T-54 and T-55s to send the aged vehicles into direct combat with more sophisticated Ukrainian tanks. Challenger 2s. Leopard 2s. M-1A1s, eventually. No, there‘s evidence the Russians are using their oldest tanks mostly as crude artillery. There also is evidence that, as artillery, the tanks aren’t totally useless. Russian and allied forces widened the war in Ukraine in February 2022 with around 3,000 front-line tanks, including hundreds of the best T-72B3s, T-90Ms and T-80BVMs. Over the following year the Russians lost around 150 tanks every month to Ukrainian forces. To put that into perspective: the entire British Army has—you guessed