Ukraine: More than half of the tanks (440) Ukraine uses in the war are captured from Russians

[speak easy]

Russian Rapture: 440 tanks, 650 armored vehicles 'left behind'.

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Russian Rapture: 440 tanks, 650 armored vehicles 'left behind'.

[Aristus]

1. Another factor in the question whether to ship Western tanks to Ukraine:

Repair and maintenance. Ukrainian tank mechanics know how to repair Russian-made T-72/T-80/T-90-series tanks. They can get them fixed up and back on the battlefield killing Russians a lot faster than if they had to drop everything and train to maintain Western tanks like the Abrams-series.

[speak easy]

2. It blows my mind that Russians are leaving late model T-90s behind.

If I was a soldier wanting to get away, I would want to be retreating in a T-90M.

[Aristus]

3. A soldier running away makes an increasingly-smaller target than a tank.

n/t

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4. A solders doesn't run away at 35 mph.

[Aristus]

5. I think you underestimate the average Russian soldier's unwillingness to fight this war.

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6. Point taken.

[Kaleva]

11. Watched 1 report Russians were fleeing in cars while being chased by....

UKR soldiers in Humvees.

[Calculating]

7. The t90 won't save you from a javelin

Just makes you a more tempting target

[speak easy]

8. ... which is why you would want to get moving

before the frontline is 2 miles away. Why would would do that? Because you're in a $5m bit of kit, less than two years old, and you don't want it shooting back at your own ppl.

[Calculating]

10. Well yeah

That's how a professional military would do it. Fortunately the Russians don't seem very professional.

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12. and some don't want to be there, don't want to fight,

and would prefer the war to be over sooner rather than later. 'Let them have the f'ing tank.'

[WarGamer]

15. AFAIK, it was only one T90.

BTW, modern AFV aren't like WW2...

Fire control systems are run by software, probably requiring input of passwords, etc...

[Brother Buzz]

9. And the Ukrainian Tractor Brigade deserves to take a victory lap and yell, "We helped!"

[sakabatou]

13. I'd love to know the lyrics

[Victor_c3]

14. 440 tanks - that's 10 battalions worth of armor

Or, a little more than 9 brigades (assuming each brigade has 3 maneuver battalions)

That’s roughly a whole corps worth of armor.