Russian troops fleeing Ukraine's battlefield advances are leaving behind heavy weapons, including modern T-90 tanks Russia counts among its best main battle tanks, and the Ukrainian armed forces are putting them back into the fight, Kyiv's military said.
Russia has touted the T-90, a modern weapon born out of a T-72 modernization program in the final years of the Soviet Union that has been upgraded repeatedly over time, as one of the most advanced tanks in its arsenal, but even with capable tanks, Russian armor forces have faced setbacks and substantial losses in Ukraine.
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Like most Russian tanks, a weakness of the T-72B3 is the armor on the top of the turret which would make it susceptible to American Javelin anti-tank missiles. But overall, the T-72B3 has strength in numbers because of all the T-72s that are in reserve that can be updated to the more valuable model.
These aren't your normal tanks. For one, their designers decided that bigger was better, and since the only thing that could really take down a Bolo was another Bolo, they just kept building the Bolos bigger and bigger, to the point where even the stealth tanks mass 1,500 tons.note For comparison purposes, modern MBTs mass around 60 to 70 tons, give or take a bit. Or in some novels the Mark XXXIII weighs 32,000 tons. note Which is pretty close to the weight of the USS New Mexico, a World War 2 era battleship. 2ff7e9595c
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