Russia has lost at least 100 of its T-90M tanks in the war in Ukraine.
Oryx, a military analysis website which relies on visual evidence for confirmation, recently reported the milestone.
Putin has praised the T-90M as the "world's best tank."
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A top Russian tank touted by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the "world's best" has suffered at least 100 losses in the war in Ukraine, according to open-source information.
The losses were recorded by Oryx, an open-source intelligence site that relies on visual evidence to confirm and track war losses on both sides. More T-90Ms may have also been lost in combat but not recorded. Business Insider was unable to independently verify the information.
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dyfish on July 15th, 2024 at 20:26 UTC »
Unless you make a giant leap forward and like skip a generation of tech. Even the “best” tank in the world is still going to only be marginally better than its counterparts and it’s going to be far from impervious.
If Russia wasn’t so insane about its rhetoric around its Military equipment this would be a small story. But no they claim everything is the best ever and a world beater and 1 is worth 10 of its western counterparts. It’s just silly, the US and the west also hype up their equipment but it’s usually just so much more grounded in reality. They’ll tell you all the reasons an Abrahams is a great tank and name the things it is supposedly best at but never to the extremes that Russia does. It’s just comical the narratives they push. Maybe the T90 really does outclass its western counterparts in lots of ways. But even then it still would not even close to the hype their propaganda machine gives it.
Manos_Of_Fate on July 15th, 2024 at 19:44 UTC »
Claiming that everything your country does is the best is just how authoritarianism works.
PKblaze on July 15th, 2024 at 19:27 UTC »
Even if they were good, poor strategy always leads to a loss.