Hadi sasa Urusi wamepoteza zaidi ya vifary 1,500 na ili kupata picha ya hasara yote hiyo, waza kwamba JWTZ ya Tanzania, yaani jeshi la nchi yote Tanzania lina vifaru 156, hivyo hasara aliyoingia Urusi inaweza ikafyeka mataifa yote ya EAC na kati na mpaka ufike Afrika magharibi, licha ya hasara yote hiyo, ameambulia tumiji twa huko mpakani wa Ukraine na bado twenyewe tunampa shida.
Sasa ameanza kutumia vifaru ya miaka ya 60s yaani T62 na Ukraine walivyo na jeuri ya kutokua na huruma, wameanza kuvifyeka, kuna hii video inaonyesha wanavyovishushia mabomu kwa drones.
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Some weeks ago we learned that Russia was
mobilizing T-62 tanks from its long term storage facilities; predictably enough, they are not faring well. The first one to show up on the battlefield became a target for a Ukrainian drone which
dropped a hand grenade right through the driver’s hatch.
Russia’s tanks have taken a severe beating on the frontline, as
increasing numbers of Javelins and other anti-tank weapons supplied by the West are reaching Ukrainian forces, and as Ukrainian artillery hone their skills at
hitting individual vehicles with the aid of drones. According to the listing by independent analysts
Oryx, who painstakingly document every single vehicle loss which can be confirmed, Russia has now lost
at least 836 tanks, out of an estimated 2,800. Those are the confirmed losses, there may be many more not documented.
These staggering losses – more than the total number of tanks possessed by Germany, France and the U.K. put together – mean that Russia is having to draw on stocks of vehicles in ins strategic reserves, giant warehouses and vehicles parks with vehicles previously retired from active duty. Among the oldest of these are the venerable T-62s, a type
first introduced in the 1960s. The last one rolled off the production line in 1973.
The first Russian T-62 tank, an antique pushed into front-line service, has fallen victim a Ukrainian drone. How did this happen and what does it tell us about the conflict?