Welp, it seems the tanks are not the Ghosts of Kiev.
Warsaw Pact T-72M tanks with some kind of ERA on them. Worse individually than any of the thousands of T-72B tanks Russia has in stockpile. The Warsaw Pact nations did not get the composite filler in the turret the Soviet T-72s got with T-72A. Their version of the T-72A lacked the composite filler. So their tanks have about as good protection without the ERA as the original stock T-72. And Soviet T-72B has both the composite filler and ERA.
You know what. The Ukrainians had hundreds of T-72s. The T-72B model even. Had they not sold a lot of those for cheap after the Soviet Union collapsed they would have thousands of them. Anyway even the ones they still had in stock were more available numerically than what these countries in Eastern Europe have. And unlike these Eastern European degraded versions the Ukrainians had the full Soviet model. So what happened to Ukrainian tanks? Probably mostly lost in combat.
There are some claims the Ukrainians have reached parity for the number of tanks they have vs the Russians. I'm very dubious.
No the Ukrainians had more tanks than what the Russians put on the field in Ukraine ever since the conflict started. I told you the only NATO nations with more active duty tanks than Ukraine are US and Turkey. It is just that even the most upgraded Ukrainians tanks available in high numbers are worse than a T-72B3. They have better thermal optics and firecontrol, and battle radios, but worse in everything else from protection to gun. And the difference in the thermals and radio isn't enough to be significant. Try looking at the specifications of latest modified Ukrainian T-64 and T-72 tanks. They had hundreds of those. Emphasis on had. The video you linked had a Ukrainian T-64BM Bulat on front. That is way better than whichever tanks Ukraine got from the Slovaks or Poles. The ones in the middle and back of the tank column would supposedly be the Slovak or Polish tanks.
Things like this make no sense to me. Given the limited logistics Ukraine currently has, does it really make sense to send them western made RPG-7 launchers? Isn't Ukraine already awash with them? And that's on top of the thousands of western ATGMs they already have.
LOL@ modernising a RPG launcher. They probably just slapped a bunch of picatinny rails on it.
That is exactly what it is. Well kind of. They basically made the launcher out of composite materials instead of using a steel tube with wooden grip. So it is lighter. And they added Picatinny rails on it. In theory it can use the same ammo as the RPG-7. So at least they can use existing ammo stocks. It is just an expensive RPG-7 launch tube.
