2024-04-09 14:19:27
It is known that the Russians tried to attack Ukrainian positions, but they failed. Therefore, the occupiers had to leave their equipment and run.
“Reconnaissance spotted an armored group of Russians. It moved towards the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kreminna sector. Soldiers of the 12th Azov Brigade and the 95th Airborne Brigade defeated the enemy column. Enemy soldiers and vehicle crews fled, leaving behind their equipment,” the report said.
Azov soldiers added that the Russian occupiers lost 11 pieces of equipment and more than 50 people.
Later, the Ukrainians seized a Russian T-72B3M tank and took it to the rear of the Ukrainian defense forces.
The T-72B3 is the Russian main tank of the T-72 family.
It was developed as a cost-effective alternative to the T-90A main battle tank before the development of the next-generation T-14 tank for the Russian Armed Forces. The T-72B3 is a relatively simple modernization of the T-72B tank, some parameters of which are brought closer to the level of the T-90A. The T-72B3 is currently being upgraded to replace the existing T-72B tanks. Modernization of previous versions of the T-72 to the level of the T-72B3 is not possible, writes Defense Express.
The tank is equipped with a multi-channel Sosna-U designed by the Belarusian company Peleng and manufactured at the Vologda Optics and Mechanics Plant (VOMZ), which includes an automatic target tracking system (ATTS) and a Thales Catherine FC thermal imaging channel. The TPD-K1 sight of the T-72B tank remained in the commander’s observation device. The tank commander’s sight is the TKN-3MK, a modernized Soviet-era TKN-3 sight with the Dubl system. The driver-mechanic has a night binocular surveillance device “TVN-5”.
2024-04-09 14:19:27