![]() ![]() Recovery vehicles for winching out stuck tanks. While on the move, their crews would count on an ecosystem of supporting vehicles to maintain forward progress. ![]() Even nearer the fighting, the tanks would roll off the trucks and tread under their own power. A Military Sealift Command ship would haul them overseas to another port railhead.Ĭloser to the battle zone, logisticians would transfer the tanks from trains to heavy equipment transporters-in essence, really big trucks. The tanks would ride on a train from their base to a port. Army would lean on several modes of transportation to get an armored brigade equipped with M-1A2SEPv3s from its home base to a European battlefield. ![]() That makes it easier to move to and around a battlefield. As a tank power, the United States is second only to Russia with its roughly 13,000 T-72s, T-80s, T-90s and other types.īut Russia’s tanks are lighter than America’s tanks. The service has ordered around 300 M-1A2SEPv3s from General Dynamics GD. Army possesses around 6,000 M-1s, including 1,500 new-generation M-1A2s. These “eyes” are the electro-optical interference emitters of the Shtora-1 active protection system, intended to disrupt the guidance systems of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).The SEPv3 works in the cold-a prerequisite for winter operations in eastern Europe, the most likely place where the Army’s heavy brigades might deploy for combat against a high-tech foe. the T-72 and T-80.Ī distinctive feature often associated with the T-90 family tanks are “glowing eyes” on the turret. These have not however been exported to Ukraine, where the domestic military industry worked on other modernizations based on e.g. First production versions of the T-90 were produced in 1992, and during the lifetime of the program a few export models (e.g. The T-72B3 represents post-Soviet tank development by the Russian Federation, and was not exported to or fielded by Ukraine.Īnother post-Soviet development with its root in the T-72 program is the T-90 main battle tank and its variants, currently representing the peak of armored warfare capability of Russian ground forces. The tanks have reportedly been used near Ilovaisk, the Luhansk airport and even Debaltseve. The presence of Russian T-72B3 tanks in eastern Ukraine has previously been established and covered on Bellingcat. ![]()
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