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espresso, today we will talk about the tank war of ukraine with russia in 5 months of fighting in ukraine, the russian army lost an unprecedented number of its tanks, how did this happen and what will be the continuation of the tank war with russia, what forces, equipment and skills do we need for our future victories, my name is sergey zgurets, i am the director of the defense express company, which, together with the espresso channel, strives to cover the most relevant events in the life of the armed forces and our country. my interlocutor today is retired lieutenant colonel mykola salamakha, a person who knows everything about tanks, has considerable experience in the training of tankers and has unparalleled authority in the military and expert environment. mykola, i congratulate you. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. let's start with the

first and seemingly simple question. five months of war with a powerful enemy is already over and can we talk about that? that the active phase of the war with russia actually destroyed the myths that the time of tanks has already passed and that now, on the contrary, a completely different trend is taking place, that our experience shows that all countries will now engage in the opposite the development of tanks in one form or another means that absolutely all countries will be engaged in the development of tanks, while this war has shown that they are used in quite unusual situations, so tanks are often used by us as artillery units, that is, two or three tanks are used

artillery tasks shoot at long ranges , this was especially evident during the defense of kyiv, when several tank groups of the armed forces of ukraine carried out artillery raids on seasonings which there were m-m, sometimes in one city or another, not only artillery worked, but sights worked, tanks worked primarily because the protection of tanks is much better than self-propelled artillery installations, and when the enemy opened fire in return, there were some chances to stay there alive much more among tankers than among artillerymen can we say that the examples you are talking about are the basis for the conclusion that we have drawn certain conclusions since the 14th year and during this time have really changed our approaches to training tankers and the use of tanks, that is, what

examples can be given that confirm this trend , if it was true. artillery and tanks were also opened for shelling our positions when our tankers advanced and acted by the method of conducting fire raids on the enemy and immediately withdrew from the so -called demarcation zone, this is exactly what this teaches the enemy, the enemy is now quite actively using the capabilities of my tanks in the use of anti-tank guided missiles, especially at long distances, i.e. a distance of six kilometers during the day and

under 5 km at night, but accordingly, in response, in the same way , we are now starting to work in the direction of using the possibility of trophy equipment, especially a large number of rockets captured together with tanks 102 years ago, our tankers are also beginning to use those opportunities to o- o omen. today we are talking about what was destroyed more than 1,750 russian tanks are absolutely colossal figures, but from the point of view of our audience, how can we explain to our audience that this is

really a significant number? 1,700 or more units of the t2 tank army is actually the soviet union then had six tank armies in general, then it was worth more than 10 million people to move under it, that is, if you use the ratio of the number of tanks per per 1,000 soldiers. actually, this is the ratio in russia, even we inflicted such delicious and significant losses on the enemy, but we found the tanks directly with artillery, anti-tank means, with the tanks themselves, with mines, with copters, with the lack of fuel, and so on. in your opinion, how should we build this hierarchy? threats to tanks from the point of view and by what means, how many tanks

did we destroy in percentage terms, what is in the first place, what is in the second place, what is in the third place, in terms of percentage , i still think that most of all the captain's means that were provided to us by the allies, i.e., private infantryman ivan petro maksym , that is, the largest number of hits were destroyed . including grenade launchers of soviet design, and actually speaking, we used anti-tank ones that remained in our warehouses, and we began to actively purchase grenades from grenade launchers abroad after that, this is a very large number of

chasing artillery, especially in the directions of communication and in places of concentration, they made a rather very large impression, about 30%, according to well, and the ineptitude of the junior command elanka of the russian army, this is the level of the battalion commander, the platoon commander, led to the fact that they left the tanks as trophies the armed forces either had time to destroy it or even such a lack of calculation of the opal, the lack of established standards, dozens of examples of cradles simply getting stuck or tanks stopping only because they worked absolutely and then

the crews were forced to drop them and indicate along with their troops or to leave those who are interesting video is the 54th mechanized brigade that destroyed six t-70 b3 tanks. i would like to receive your comments, these tanks advance in two columns , this tank, the tanks are accompanied by a demining machine zmiy horynich, that is, this machine, which you understand, was used to destroy our calculations of tanks that will appear on the way. but all these six tanks were destroyed, as i see first of all, with the help of artillery, how common is this episode for the current stage of the war here

, well, now the situation has changed a little, such things happened en masse in the first month, that is, when the russians entered the direction of kyiv, and pressing in several directions is from in the north. these are those from the east through the sumy region. actually, there is really movement there, only all in columns. the columns were sometimes part of the freedom party, sometimes part of a company, and sometimes they were battalions, tactical groups, and there the artillery worked very successfully, especially when corrections were made by the head of the artillery, as in this situation with the help of guided interrogation devices. and actually, these are the shots we observe from an unmanned detailed device , that is, a parallel heavy recording will be carried out,

corrections and recording on video media were carried out, but at the same time, already for luhansk region, the russians switched to another tactics when they started to create fists as part of a pre-tank company and several infantry fighting vehicles or non-transport vehicles and tried to break through our border and there already the artillery operated according to the deployed battle order , this is also with the use of unmanned ideal devices, as well as with the use of artillery workers who er or correctors who were directly in the combat positions of our infantry who were defending literally the other day we saw another video when the enemy tanks are destroyed by dropping

ammunition from a copter on such tanks. this is the video of the day. we will publish it on the counter-development of the sbu, which wrote that it was actually their specialists who carried out such strikes on fascist tanks. if we see this video now i would also like to hear your comment, to what extent is the practice of using shock munitions of sparing ammunition today common on the battlefield with the use of such destruction systems, which means that polish-made and american -made ammunition are protected, but i really wanted weapons, unfortunately , their quantity is not enough in order to create with it practically every er mechanized or motorized infantry , but er, similar means in our country are usually transferred to special forces, and they are very effective

at the same time, we use a lot in the city in the armed forces, which use the so -called orthocopters and quadrocopters, and they make special devices for attaching to such contract iordacopters, the rkg-3, which are modified in order to use they are used as bombs of cumulative action, and also used for lighter, lightly armored vehicles, and smaller unmanned aerial vehicles , when it is the same e-e mountains 17 that are processed into, as a matter of fact, mini-fragmentation bombs there actually, the infantry are located in the open, and

sometimes it happens that there were shots when directly the hatch of an infantry fighting vehicle hits such a surprise, well, it’s interesting, actually, every success there or defeat of a tank on the battlefield is such an integral combination of the same possibilities tank there, firepower protection, maneuverability and training of the crew, fighting spirit, etc. i would like to start a machine t-70 e-e two in its various modifications, the tank t-70 b3 seems to be the most common in the ranks of the russian army today, what does it imagine itself to be, what are its primary weaknesses on the battlefield, so that we can evaluate these weak points from the point of view of not further destruction of the tank t-72 b3 modifications, this modification of 2011 is a modification of

2016, the modification of 2016 is protected much better than the modification of 2011, a more powerful engine, but it has its own peculiarities, the russians did not change the layout of the machine, but they did not have and which you can in order not to loosen the roof, you see. they said a night sight - in place of a night sight tpn 1:49-23 e-e belarusian-french sight pine in here the sight is good, but its location in such a place to the left of the bases a near the body leads to the fact that the gunner is in a very uncomfortable position in order to constantly observe through the main

sight a pine tree in er behind the battlefield and to fire at the excellent must constantly lean back and er move his head to the left, that is, his neck muscles and spine are constantly in tense posture at the same time, the control panel remained in the old place. under the scope, well, one and 40, but the scope is one and 40, analog pine and digital. that is, you can turn on either one or the other, but if you turn on two sights at the same time, they begin to conflict with each other and the weapon ceases to work adequately. that is, we are talking about these tanks that are insane, but when we talk about eternity and actions on the field, we should be afraid that 48% of the tanks and 7 t 72 b3 were destroyed as a percentage. and somewhere around 52% of the tanks were

simply thrown onto the battlefield by crews. such cases happened, it was not faith in one's equipment or some other factors that influenced the actions of the russian crews, which means that on practically no car that came to us as a trophy, they found, er, not a single technical complex, not a single operating manual, or not a single monument the crew has no manual, but the machine is so complicated that it is almost impossible to keep it in your head without constantly renewing that knowledge. so the crews quite often used only one sight and 40 as soon as the first ones appeared difficulties well, there was an opportunity to throw the car. actually, the car was thrown, that is, a lot depends on the sections, they had reliable weapons,

it would have felt confident that they probably did not throw the car, as soon as the crew members became insecure, they threw the car. despite this, quite often these the machines were in good condition. and i'm actually saying that there are problems with those that were installed e-e t- 72b ? makes two shots in 25 seconds, and the t-64b , t-80b and t-80bvm tanks fire three aimed shots, it also comes off as a result of the activity of the

tankers’ duels, and the russians also understand this perfectly, especially those who are here, i’m the crew members tanks 72b that fight as part of the russian troops there 72b3 if we move further along this product line of russian military equipment tank t-80 bmw this is actually the first example that took part in hostilities on the territory of ukraine what are your assessments of this machine in view of the actions of the enemy on the security of this machine on vulnerable places, this machine itself is protected from all that the enemy now has, with the exception of the t-90 m tank, which was released this year, the t-80 pv was released, or rather , modernized tanks in the t-80b to of the t-80 bv level, according to

some there is no information, it is three battalions of 90 machines, according to other information, it is four battalions, this is 120 machines, this machine has an engine power of 1,250 horsepower, it is true that it has its own characteristics, it concerns what the crews must understand, what is it gas turbine engine mechanics must have a very high level preparation for the machine, again, the location of the pine is quite unfortunate, but the sight that acts as a backup is very simple, and it has the same multiplicity as pines in 4 and 12 , that is, the fields are exactly the same and you can carry observations in e-e, the sight is a backup, and the fire is carried from the

combat through the main sight of the pine tree, and the advantage is, well, the thermal imager, which allows you to shoot at night from a distance, with task and support packages of kilometers , this is a serious bid for success, and during the day, this is the main one, it allows you to shoot missiles on the spot m- m with 6 km and in fact, if the high-collision ones that cost russian artists on this machine are quite significant, for sure e-e 64v, even for sure, which can fire e-missiles or combat or 9m112, the so-called cobra, when we are talking about the t-80 bmw tank, it is actually one of the fastest samples of equipment that are in the arsenal of the russian army.

but this is only one advantage, the actual speed, on the other hand, the installed gas-burning engine has led to the fact that the tank consumes too much fuel, and there is actually information about what to to ensure such good speed indicators, the russian army has limited the use of different types of fuel for these t-80 bvm machines, leaving only one type of aviation e-e kerosene of sufficient quality to really support the power of this tank on all parameters. and this, on the other hand , also affected a different situation turned out to be that if all the tanks can run on solar power and the t-80bm can only run on such aviation -quality fuel, then it turned out that it was quite difficult to deliver this fuel and all the logistics could not to be sharpened for only one t-80 bmw tank. actually

, this was a consequence of the fact that a significant number, well , a certain number of tanks and 80 bmws were left on the battlefield, and by the way, they were captured by the ukrainian troops and are already being used in the of the armed forces, carrying out attacks on enemy positions, except for the t-80 e-e bvm tank, of which up to 100 units were released, and half of them remained in ukraine, either destroyed or already in the ranks of the ukrainian army, the russian a-a-a army tried to bring to ukraine and more modern samples on first of all, this is the newest t-90 tank, a breakthrough, actually, this is another integration of the materialization of the t-72 tank and these t-90 tanks, the breakthrough is actually

considered to be the most top solution of the russian defense industry, and a certain number of these tanks met their own death to the territory of ukraine. i would like to talk with our guest further about how you evaluate the use of t-90 e breakthrough tanks, because this tt-90 m breakthrough is actually one of the supposedly most well-developed samples that embodied the best indicators protection of firepower and so on, but we are destroying it, please tell the audience a little about this machine and what are the disadvantages of this model, so the machine is actually the pinnacle of the development of the

t -92 line, or rather t-72. the commander can observe the situation on the battlefield during the day and at night, and all the defects that were in the t-72 bt72 b3 tank have been eliminated. the automatic charger does not come out system. so it is not possible and does not have the ability to work in the main mode, then in the emergency mode on the t-90 and 90a and t-90m tanks, there is no possibility to charge in semi-automatic mode,

if you are talking about this, the first example of destruction tank and the 90th e-e breakthrough by our territorial defense brigade, which used e-e against this tank there in the carl gustav complex, does

n’t this mean that in fact there are flaws in the defense system of this tank that we can know and can use, that means everyone shell protection it is physically impossible to achieve to the same extent, but the infantry knew this very well. actually , when the enemy began to look for the enemy and the fire was coming from two sides of our infantry, the infantry used the opportunity to fire into the rear part of the mouth and the shooting was aimed at the side projection of the hull, but four shots led to the fact that the ammunition exploded and the turret went off the shoulder, so to speak, it rose

a little higher and moved some 30 or 40 cm to the side, this was enough for the crew died from an explosion inside, and there ceased to be a combat unit. that is, we can say that against trained infantry, there is no protection in the tank, no matter how complete it may seem at first glance, continuing like this. yes, i'm sorry if the tank operates without infantry cover, that is, it advances tanks and they are actually covered by the infantry. actually, this is the fate of any tank. the use of tanks is a tactic of interaction between infantry and tank units, and actually speaking, if an infantry unit is advancing, the main task of tanks is to support the advance of tanks with fire from infantry formations, or rather the advance of infantry, fire

directly from infantry formations, to destroy those targets that the infantry detects and which it can not destroy on its own, and vice versa, if in defense, the tanks cement the infantry defense, because in the future the stronghold if there is at least one tank, it grows in strength to actually double three because the infantry well, despite the fact that it has a lot of modern student equipment, but the tank gun is a sniper rifle with a range of up to 2.5 km continuing your thesis about the close interaction of infantry tanks e-e in the russian federation for the first time on the territory of ukraine under the same north donetsk used the combat machine gun support of tanks terminator paired with main battle tanks what are your conclusions regarding russia's use of this and