Moscow's forces are sending in main battle tanks that are more than six decades old, the British Ministry of Defense has said.
that Russia's military is turning to T-62 main battle tanks to shore up equipment deficits on the battlefield.
The defense officials described as a"realistic possibility" that even units of Russia's premier tank forces—the 1st Guards Tank Army —will be re-equipped with the MBT, which first entered Soviet service in 1961. An abandoned Russian T-62 tank near Novovorontsovka, southern Ukraine on October 7, 2022. On March 6, 2023, the British Ministry of Defense said that Russian forces were deploying the 60-year-old tanks due to heavy armored losses., but these have been beset with delays due to technical problems.
Over recent days, the even-older Russian BTR-50 armored personnel carriers, which were first fielded in 1954, have also been deployed in Ukraine for the first time, the MOD said.. Some had received upgraded sighting systems, which will highly likely improve their night-effectiveness. But these older vehicles will be vulnerable on the battlefield. This is partly because of the"absence of modern explosive reactive armor," the U.K. defense officials said in their daily update, which emphasizes Russian losses and Ukrainian gains.
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