Therefore, not everyone realizes but battle tank is a tank that fills the armor-protected direct fire and maneuver role of many modern armies. Street fighting in Bakhmut but Russia not in control, Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore dies at 61, Alex Murdaugh's legal troubles are far from over, The children left behind in Cuba's mass exodus, Xi Jinping's power grab - and why it matters, Snow, Fire and Lights: Photos of the Week. As the Ukrainian Military Center suggests, those T-62s could be in better shape than many stored T-72s or T-80s and that is probably the reason why Russia decided to quickly de-mothball them and send them to Ukraine. "Some of those tanks were abandoned because they ran out of fuel. It has state of the art laser-guided missiles with Kord 12.7mm and PKTM 7.62mm machine gun. The T-90A received the moniker "Vladimir" after the death of the tank's main designer, Vladimir Ivanovich Potkin. Part of the Military Factory network of sites that includes. It said the Russian military had lost 110 armored fighting vehicles,161 infantry fighting vehicles and 63 armored personnel carriers. That makes them, in world terms, a low to medium-quality fighting force," says RUSI's Nick Reynolds. 24 February marked one year since the start of the war in Ukraine. 3,600 Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon missiles (NLAW). Due to a lack of field artillery, many Ukrainian crews practice indirect fire on targets out of the tanks line of sight, howitzer-style. What is worse is that only four of these T-62s were actually destroyed. An analysis of Google Maps satellite images of 19 Russian military storage facilities mainly located east of Russias Ural Mountains by theUkrainian Military Center, a Ukrainian military defense news site, estimates that 2,299 tanks appear unrestorable. Zelensky recorded the speech on the streets of Kyiv with the Ukrainian flag in the background. Many nations, like the United States and United Kingdom, only operate one tank variety, which greatly simplifies logistics, maintenance and training. In reality, nobody likely not even Russia knows precisely how many of those estimated thousands can emerge from the mothballs and be made operational again. Despite the efforts of the greatest correspondence with the reality, there is no guarantee, that all the data is true. Given Russia's longtime reliance on the employment of massive quantities of armor on the battlefield, Russia is always seeking to modernize and update its tank fleet where it can.