Regression continues: in the army of the Russian Federation replace the old T-72BA even older T-72B
Despite the Kremlin's statements about expanding the production of modern tanks, major losses in Ukraine continue to drive the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into even older technologies. While Ukraine is fighting for western cars, the Kremlin is restored by the older cars. At the end of October, the occupiers from the 488th Motorized Rifle Regiment in the Luhansk region showed T-72B. The tank version first arrived in 1985.
Russian troops lost the T-72B hundreds before, but until recently the 488th Regiment had an armed T-72B-a modernized T-72B with an improved engine and a better stabilization of 125 mm gun. Previously, the T-72ba was considered a rare tank. In 2016, it was called "experimental", but despite "research" in the warehouses of the Russian Federation kept about 700 cars.
The author claims that the T-72B was created as a cheap modernization of the T-72B due to the difficult economic crisis in the Russian Federation in the late 1990s. At that time, for the Russian Federation, the T-90 was a dear. However, now, in 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost more than 2000 tanks and even T-72Ba is already over. Therefore, it is significant that the 488th regiment received even older T-72B rather than new T-72B3 or T-90.
The T-72A and T-72 Urals may be older than the T-72B. They were also already spotted in the Russian army. T-72B has a bad optics of night vision, it will be able to detect the target up to 1200 meters away, while modern Ukrainian T-64 or T-72 can do it at a distance of 4-5 km not to mention Western Challenger 2, Leopard 1 and 2 and Abrams. We will remind, on November 10 in the US Army showed Hamvi, which was processed under the Russian T-72 tank.