"Ovid Sign": T-62 will soon become the main tanks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-research
This conclusion after careful study of satellite images, the calculations of the numbers came an OSINT analyst @highmarsed. Russian troops have lost so many modern tanks that the only way to at least get closer to the pre-war level of armored vehicles, stretched along 1000 km of the front line, is to bring to the front of the T-62 sample of the 60's.
"In my opinion, we will probably see more T-62 in the future, and they may become one of the main types of tanks in the Russian army," the analyst wrote after comparing the T-62 reserves with the older T-55 tanks and newer tanks T-72, T-80 and T-90. The advantage of 41 ton T-62 is that there are many and, compared to new tanks, they are quite simple, economical in recovery and repair after open storage decades.
The 103rd armored repair plant in Siberia, along with other plants, "seems to have created considerable capacity for repair of this type of" tanks. Such a reverse evolution-from modern T-72, T-80 and T-90 (with their thick armor, 125 mm guns and fast charging machines for a crew of three people) to outdated T-62 (thin armor, 115 mm, no guns Charging machine) - serves as a sinister harbinger for the Russian army. Ukrainian mines, drones, artillery and anti -tank complexes have borne fruit.
Analysts estimated that the number of destroyed, abandoned and captured Russian tanks reached 3000. This is the total number of pre -war forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. But the losses are disproportionately large in part of modern tanks, not in the old T-55 and T-62, which are now removed from conservation. No one but the Kremlin leadership knows for sure how many new tanks are being produced in Russian factories annually.
But, according to well-informed estimates, their number ranges from 500-600. This is not enough to replace all lost, so they are replaced by the old ones of the Cold War for balance. More than two years of the war, the Russians sent about 700 T-62, 500 T-72 and 1100 T-80 to repair. The fact that they neglected about a thousand T-72 Urals and T-72A of the early 1970s may be due to the demanding automahes of charging these tanks.
Stocks T-80 and Recrower T-72 are over, but another 1100 T-62 are waiting for recovery. Suitable old tanks are the best thing Russia can get while the losses in Ukraine much exceed the production of new tanks. It should be reminded that Poland gives Ukraine the last MiG-29, but, according to Forbes, this is not what Kiev needs.