The War in the Ukraine

Ukrainians recovering a downed Bradley.


Camouflaged Ukrainian howitzer gets hit by a Lancet. Note that new Lancets have a warhead specifically designed to deal with nets. From the 336th Marine Brigade.


Su-34 bombers with FAB with UMPK working on targets in the Kupyansk direction.


Hungary blocked EU assistance to Ukraine worth 50 billion Euros.


Incendiaries fired from a Grad towards Ukrainian positions in Ugledar.


Russian Su-25 nearly flew into the path of the Grad firing.


Ukrainians escaping towards Belarus infomatic.


The 110th Brigade of the Donetsk Army Corp working on Ukrainian positions with FPV drones.


A different kind of FAB-500, dropped and with delayed fuse. Damage is enormous with this risky low altitude attack.


Chechen Akhmat special forces takes down Ukrainian guards of an observation post with CQC. Note the thermal resistant "Bat Cape" the assailant is using. This YouTube version has been appropriately censored.

crazy footage of crazy guy at city council meeting

looks like the land bridge just got wider

more and more of these athletes getting mooshed

sheogorath said:

I mean, pretty sure we have seen more than 10 T-90M and T-80BVM delivered this year alone

Click to expand...

Nizhny Tagil produced 20,544 T-72 tanks between 1974 and 1990. 1,284 a year on average.

sheogorath said:

I mean, pretty sure we have seen more than 10 T-90M and T-80BVM delivered this year alone

Click to expand...

We have, but aren't they mostly rebuilding existing T-90As into the T-90M? The T-90A has nearly completely disappeared, we barely see them anywhere.
Actual new-build tanks are fairly rare. FWIW, it was discussed a while ago here or in the Russian military thread. Russians are mostly rebuilding and upgrading existing stuff, completely new tanks are comparatively rare, but the numbers of completely new tanks are increasing every month.

B777LR said:

We have, but aren't they mostly rebuilding existing T-90As into the T-90M? The T-90A has nearly completely disappeared, we barely see them anywhere.
Actual new-build tanks are fairly rare. FWIW, it was discussed a while ago here or in the Russian military thread. Russians are mostly rebuilding and upgrading existing stuff, completely new tanks are comparatively rare, but the numbers of completely new tanks are increasing every month.

Click to expand...

Probably cheaper and faster to refurbish. If they have the stockpiles to do it it's a good deal. WHen they will pass through the old stock they would have probably sorted out all the logistics to ramp up production of brand new frames. Ukraine was a big source of steel and raw material for Russia, would be interesting to see what iron foundry have replaced the production. Steel production got a huge drop in Russia at the start of the war and demand for it soar for ammo, vehicules for the war effort.

TK3600 said:

It is clear Russia cannot sustain high tempo operation forever, but they don't have to. If Ukraine + western aid run low on equipments, Russian loss will go down, and vice versa. So the question then becomes who is running low first? The war is a race between NATO and Russian war economy. Russia is betting on reduced attrition on vehicle once western aid dwindles.

Click to expand...

Maybe they will turn to China for equipment.

Tam said:

Camouflaged Ukrainian howitzer gets hit by a Lancet. Note that new Lancets have a warhead specifically designed to deal with nets. From the 336th Marine Brigade.

Click to expand...

How does it deal with nets?

Atomicfrog said:

Probably cheaper and faster to refurbish. If they have the stockpiles to do it it's a good deal. WHen they will pass through the old stock they would have probably sorted out all the logistics to ramp up production of brand new frames. Ukraine was a big source of steel and raw material for Russia, would be interesting to see what iron foundry have replaced the production. Steel production got a huge drop in Russia at the start of the war and demand for it soar for ammo, vehicules for the war effort.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Click to expand...

According to somebody on another site, it is cheaper but not much faster. The T-72Bs being pulled out of storage today are in terrible shape and need an extensive rebuild. Stuff like cracks in the hull that have to be repaired. There have been videos posted on this forum of the T-72 re-production at UVZ. They strip them down to the bare hull and reassemble them with new components, not much different from what you would do with a new tank.