But the key change was the transition to three-man tanks.
(REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko) The Pentagon will pay for 45 of. In addition, the USSR spearheaded research into Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) and gun launched missiles. A Ukrainian service member drives a captured Russian T-72 tank, as in the liberated village of Lukianivka, in Kyiv region, Ukraine. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes and Clearance Jobs. Post-war Russian tank design was innovative.The Soviet Union produced the first tank with a rounded turret (the T-54/55) and the first with a 115mm calibre gun (the T-62). He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, politics, and international affairs. He has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,200 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. The T-62 is a truly antiquated piece of hardware that was largely retired from the Soviet arsenal and is only now being returned to service to bolster Russia’s tank numbers.Īs a result of the decision to send these old tanks to a new fight, we’ll likely continue to see similar vehicles of burning hulks spewn across the fields of Ukraine.Ī Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer. Though newer than the T-72, the T-80 is considered to be a far more complicated machine that is harder to manufacture and even harder to service in the field. As a result, Russia has been forced to employ its newly-mobilized tank battalions with obsolete T-62 and T-80B MBTs and now older T-54 and T-55 tanks.
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