As with other Soviet-era tanks, the T-90 makes use of an integrated autoloader, three-man crew and low profile design. Compared to its contemporaries, the T-90 is one of the best protected tanks in the world and also one of the most heavily armed combat systems. Their current armoured fleet at the front is about half the size it was at the start of the war,” Henry Boyd, a research fellow at the IISS, told Reuters.The T-90 is the current Main Battle Tank of the Russian Army and developed from the successful qualities of the preceding T-72 and T-80 series. “They’re producing and reactivating nowhere near enough to compensate for those loss rates. Moscow has sought to address the losses of MBTs by upgrading older platforms including the T-62 as well as the T-54/55 series. It was reported by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in February that the Kremlin had lost upwards of 40 percent of its prewar fleet of tanks, and those numbers have likely only increased as Russia has pressed its attack on Bakhmut in recent weeks. Russia has not only lost significant numbers of tanks, but the men trained to operate them. In this particular incident, two of the Russian tankers appeared to have made it to safety, but they were the lucky ones. The action reportedly occurred outside of Bakhmut over the weekend. The T-72B3M, a modernized variant of the Cold War-era tank developed in the Soviet Union, was apparently disabled, and the crew – recording the action from a body camera, proceeded to retreat to a second Russian tank.
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