Ukraine's military has also shared footage of captured T-90M tanks, including in the eastern Kharkiv and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. Earlier this week, footage of a Ukrainian brigade destroying a T-90M was shared by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Internal Affairs Ministry. T-90M tanks were recently used near Lyman, in the eastern Donetsk region, state media reported on March 16.ĭutch open source outlet Oryx has visually confirmed that Russia has lost 15 T-90M tanks, as of Tuesday morning. The first such tank entered service in 2020. On January 12, 2023, Russian state media reported that Russian tank manufacturer, Uralvagonzavod, had "delivered a new batch of upgraded T-90M Proryv main battle tanks to Russian troops." They have been used against Ukrainian fighters "on the front line," Russia's Defense Ministry said in late February. The tank is a "competitor" for the M1 Abrams tank. The M-1 tank has two main parts: a pivoting gun turret and a tracked hull.A Russian T-90M Proryv main battle tank. The turret is an armored structure supporting one or more guns - typically a heavy cannon and a couple of machine guns. The hull's job is to transport the top portion of the tank, the turret, from place to place. The hull is the bottom portion of the tank - the track system and an armored body containing the engine and transmission. Additionally, the track has heavy tread that digs into muddy surfaces, and it never goes flat like a tire. A car grips the ground with only the bottom portion of four tires, but a tank grips it with dozens of feet of track. Tracked vehicles can move easily over rough terrain because the track makes contact with a wide area of the ground. The internal combustion engine made tracked military vehicles feasible. Earlier tracked vehicles weren't practical in battle because their steam engines were too cumbersome and unreliable. The tank's wheels ride along the moving track, just like the wheels in a car run along the road. The tank engine rotates one or more steel sprockets, which move a track made up of hundreds of metal links. Caterpillar tracks work on the same principle as a conveyer belt.
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