Wow 😳

Confirmed. Yeah mate it's a BMP 3. Six roadwheels each side . BMD 4 has 5.

@patriot enfield Oversight in the editing, apologies

Why do you think they are ditching such large quantities of intact vehicles? Is it because of muddy terrain and bad logistics, or is something else at play?

@@argy007 Some are also "lost orientation" and "run out of fuel" or accidentally "drop a granade inside" to not have to participate in the shooting. The motivation for a war on russian side is not very strong.

That 40 miles long of russian soldiers on standby for days won't do much

@@feero9680 Personally, I think Tsar Putin is using the soldiers and that line of vehicles as bait, hoping the West will impulsively bomb it, so he can use the excuse to declare WWIII.

Yes indeed. These bad boys besides being not as good as Western equipment ran out of fuel and support.

Well, there's also a corollary: you can have all the supply in the world and you still won't win because you don't know how to fight. Just look at Libya when they invaded Chad. But yeah, logistics is absolute king, assuming that you have decent tactical capabilities to utilize those resources.

Logistics and intelligence, which how the allies beat the German U-boat assault on shipping and how the U.S. Navy beat Japan at Midway.

Haha, yes they might need to work on the logistics, on new weaponry. But then again - it works, so why change it 😂

Hahahaaa some of the captured hardware looks pretty recent and expensive.

They have been learning from the Finnish during the Winter War

@@saint_alucardwarthunder759 Americans love their Holy Military Industrial Complex. The weapons are already bought and in stock, so why not put it to good use, and blow up some Commies, instead of rotting in storage ?

@@saint_alucardwarthunder759 bless the US and british taxpayers. On the other hand it's a good chance to show those systems in action against intended targets

VDV, they're probably all dead.

this was not intentional for sure

Good you didn't see it from up close, and I don't recommend looking it up.

@@michalniebyl3404 what happened?

Likely happened under chaotic circumstances, such as during a period of darkness while under artillery fire. I could easily see the tank commander telling his driver to 'get us the hell out of here', and this happening.

That Russian equipment isn't abandoned. It's part of a "special donation action" to the Ukrainian defenders.

Russia donated them to Ukrainian scarp metal junk yards and smelters.

I know! These vehicles are supposed to be gods of the battlefield and seeing so many of them this was so odd. Like looking at the Titanic.

They will be repurposed as tractors to help with the wheat harvest...

by modern did you mean modernised? these vehicles used in the invasion were older and substandard instead of dispose it why not use it in ukraine..

I assume that UA National Guard just threw a molotov down the hatch of such vehicles on fronts where they are in danger of being recovered. Simple, and should be 100% effective.

And Ukrainians probably also can't use them. Hard to deliver fuel to those locations, don't have ammunition for those tanks.

There are also numerous reports that the crews are deliberatelyrunning out of fuel, so that they may abandon them. Seems plausible enough.

Well, T-80 in theory can run on diesel, but it's tuned for airborne kerosine, so they can be tied, but not operated.

Still dosen't excuse the fact farmers with their tractors stole tank.s

The most relevant comment here. This is the reality of armoured warfare. Historically, the Russian fronts have always had issues outsmarting General Mud; General Confusion; and General Parts-Just-Falling-of-the-Tank-Again. There is also Major 'We're not moving so we're all going to die anyways thus I'm going to go get a drink because I killed my last two bottles driving on my here" - he gets around.

Those things had aluminum armour and could fire atgms out of the main gun. Super cool that you got to work around those.

That's is why logistics is the king of the battlefield. Combined armed movements would require a whole host of support units to recover and repair disabled vehicles. It would appear that these support elements where not brought or that fuel is so critical that they can not go themselves to the disables vehicles.

@@SS-zg6of S&S published the problems to be overcome, not that a solution had been found. The misinformation served two purposes: One for the enemy, of course, but also to hammer home the importance of all the prep-work to prevent it on top of making everyone aware. After all, wasn't it a rumour that you didn't have to clear the new service rifle what got a lot of American GIs killed when the M16 was first introduced?

3M developed a film that they applied to the leading edge of rotor blades to protect from sand particles. Otherwise it would be like sand blasting beer cans every time they spun them up.

We know it's not lmao

only if ukraine actually used it lol :P they only recovered very few Russian vehicles and that's because they were ambushed rather than being abandoned

🤣🤣🤣

@@samdeadstar The vehicles were likely abandoned due to maintenance issues or lack of fuel, which means the Ukrainians would have to get a tanker or an 88 ton wrecker moved up to fuel/retrieve and fix those vehicles while getting actively targeted by Russian air and artillery. Easier to put an RPG round up its ass and be done with it.

Slavic brotherhood! Haha!

Pretty much all the Russian and Soviet era vehicles cannot withstand any form of actual Anti-Tank. Although I don't think highly of the American abrams compared to German or British tanks, their MRAP is pretty RPG resistant compared the Russia main battle tanks.

A good supply of the old M-47 wire guided dragon comes to mind for the sake of numbers.

RPG-7 can blow up any existing tank right now.

@@solareclipse9379 Depends entirely on the round, top tier rockets I agree. But they are in short supply and expensive compared to other rockets. Your basic RPG rocket won't destroy most a good majority of western tanks, and by your definition. A HE RPG round can blow up a British challenger, when in reality it probably won't blow up a humvee.

@@gizmodud7267 ofcourse it depends on rounds (grenades in this case), same with automatic weapons etc.

we're gonna see some funny looking tractors with tank treads plowing ukrainian fields this spring!!!

There are other efforts to collate the data on wrecked tanks and vehicles. The umber is in the hundreds. It would be good to get more people working together on this. Much of the reporting is not well supported with data and some of it many reports may be for propaganda. Identifying the units s also useful. I have seen very little information on Ukrainian losses. Also lots of the vehicles are still relatively intact and not burnt out. So there does not seem to be much actual tank on tank fighting. And how the main Ukrainian units are going. But any way you look at it the Russians are not doing so well. Despite many weeks and possibly months of preparation.

@@terminusest5902 Is the map from Cen4infoRes of any use?

"oryxspioenkop" is an open source listing of confirmed losses on both sides that is constantly being updated.

It would be nice to also make a map of Ukrainian losses. 500 thousand soldiers were lost somewhere....

How to deliver it there quickly and easily? Remove air filter from air intake manifold?

Idk man they're gonna need some very oversized pistons for the overhaul

Down the oil fill it goes bup di bup di buuuw

Putin : the combat is rigged !

Russia still uses stupid communist designs from the 40s for their modern tanks . They can be the Jack of all trades but remember the other part master of none

"Near" So close but *so far*

You do know those tanks were destroyed by an anti tank missile right ? Ant western tank would also be burned yoa crisp if it gets hit by a kornet missile

@@Silver_Prussian Luckily for us it's the Russian tanks burning into crisps there.. why continue this stupid war.. we all could have lived in peace and happiness but one guys ego had to be satisfied..

There is at least one on eBay already.

_Pick-up only_ 🤣

Ask Ukrainian farmer for their backyard sale.

💢THAT'S G00D 0NE😆😄😆😄😆😄❗❗❗

Back in the day, overrun artillery batteries at least made the effort to destroy their guns, so the enemy couldn't use them against them. Wonder what those tank crews are going to tell their commanders when they show up zo the rally points without a tank.

@@Yora21 Even the Germans in ww2 would put some explosives like an HE shell into a broken tank and blow it up when abandoning it.

@@Yora21 I thought the same.lol

I don’t think you understand that nearly all of these vehicles are only good for scrap metal, and spare metal parts. The cost to repair these vehicles would amount to more than building them brand new, as it would be the same process except you would have to rip it completely apart, replace EVERYTHING, and then rebuild it, it’s not very smart to use once destroyed parts in your mbts.

@@TrySomeFentanyl The ones that have run out of fuel or got stuck in the mud should be good to go once you put fuel in the tank or pull them out of the mud.

Russian technican: you have spare parts!?

Ironically these abandoned tanks, are now themselves spare parts.

@@Friendo111 Cannibalized

Especially considering Russia's economy is comparable to California's. When nations as rich as the US are streamlining to a single main battle tank, it's for a damn good reason haha

@@Friendo111 I mean most are undamaged and mist likly just need more fuel to work again... Why would you scape something like that?

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Keep in mind people will watch these videos 20, 30, 50 years from now, so a little background that we may not need will be good for educating future viewers.

So much happening at once it's hard to say. A multi domain attack was planned and in some ways failed.

It's debatable whether the Guards units are really privileged in any way. They bear honorific titles from long ago, but may be no better than the average unit. SPETSNAZ, VDV, and (possibly) Naval Landing forces, yes, but whether the Guards are prioritized in equipment or personnel is unknown -- and I'd say IMPROBABLE from what we've seen. The sole exception is the Guards who are part of the traditional anti-coup force retained in the Moscow Military District -- but that's b/c they're near the capital, not b/c they have Guards titles.

@@roberthaworth8991- I doubt they're privileged or even particularly good, but they do tend to have at least decently modern equipment and the ability to consider themselves a little better than average. That never hurts. They're full-time formations, at least. They're certainly no Spetnaz.

I read on bloomberg today that the cost of all russia's equipment lost in Ukraine already approx. $3B.

Daily cost of executing the war has been estimated at $20bn to $25bn for Russia. So at least $200bn since the invasion began. Not to mention the costs associated with the pre-invasion deployment. What with the crippling effects of the sanctions, this isn’t looking good for Putin at all.

But Russia get 500-700 million from the export of gas to EU, each day!... To bad EU is so dependent of RU gas..

@@bluecanary9417 - I just don't believe that number of $20bn/day. They have like 200,000 troops. $20bn/200,000 means $100,000 a day, per soldier.

@@peterwolf4230 Fuel? Parts for maintnence? Food? How old are you?

It already has subtitles

@@MetalFan10101 It does not have user made subtitles

Just the amount of details for an ongoing conflict is amazing I mean just think about it it’s one thing talking about battles that have been documented in the past it’s another to do it on the fly

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It requires a pre-written transcript and a full time staff dedicated to write those in subtitles. It's not easy to the KZfaqr w small budget.

there have been tank battles, tank battles are loud and scary, a tank shot and a tank burst is a hell of a lot louder than a gunshot. so most people stop recording and run away. I am sure we will see videos of tank battles after the war is finished

Tanks make excellent targets...

I don't think we will, Russian Air dominance is not complete, as the Ukrainian air force is able to sorte to protect local units and fronts, but the Russians can still deploy massive air assets against targets. Russia wants the tank battle, they want a large conventional victory. Ukraine meanwhile, knows they can't start to coalesce their tank force into a major fighting unit without Russian notice and subsequent heavy bombing by the Russian airforce. Now, lets say the Ukrainians do assemble an armored spearhead, and somehow find enough infantry to support it properly. They can clash with the Russian spearhead, but it means either stretching the already profusely bleeding Ukrainian Airforce to, at best frankly, contest Russian air dominance, or the Ukrainian Armored assault would have to do without air cover, which is a death sentence. Another issue you need to realize is the season. It is spring, the season that halted the German Blitzkrieg with the endless mud. All those videos of stuck Russian Tanks would also be videos of stuck Ukrainian tanks, all major theater moves would be confined to the roads, which again, with the air war, would be a death sentence to Ukrainian armor.

@@Mikalent Slava Ukraine !!! ... whatever that means.

@@Mikalent The best strategy for Ukraine is simply to hold on and delay the Russian advance until the sanctions destroy Russia's economy. Also, as a defender, the enemy must have at least 3 times your force to dislodge you, so the delay tactic has another benefit. While it's tempting to think about a surprise attack on the convoy and splitting their center force in half, it's too risky for the reasons you outlined. Better to hold the line at major cities with artillery and do combined armed counterattacks designed to blunt offensives and promote stalemate.

it doesnt work like that:) you need crew ect and where to move them.. but probably few are used like that

Interdictions like this is all they are experienced with and they still fail with logistics on their doorstep with months of preparation

Thats BS, Ukraine only had 19 drones and they were destroyed with missile strikes on the ground along with its command center during the first hours of the war, Turkey provided 2 maybe 3 more by 2 of march 2022 via Poland but they seem to have been shot down too not long after, UAVs had very little to do with the initial logistical problems of the RF

@@Howleye yeah bro, totally BS. That's why their tanks are seen on video getting blown up by drones.

@@lastsong7159 yeah you mean the fake 2 year old videos from Syria?

@@Howleye LOL. Dude, there are literally dozens of videos of drones bombing the shit out of russians. Dont be a drone and stop eating and spitting the propaganda.

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Agreed

The reason why they can't control the air space is that their first strike didn't do jack shit with the us accurately predicting the invasion.

@@bcf1237 What did they try to do with their first strike and how did it fail?

@@mekingtiger9095 us intelligence accurately predicted the time of the invasion giving the Ukrainians ample information and moved most of the assets. Remember that there were significantly less ammunition depots blowing up in the beginning of the war compared to the missiles that were launched. Plus one of the Russian strikes landed on an already mothballed fleet.

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Burial at home instead of being picked off by local dogs, which I have seen evidence of of in videos. Pretty bad stuff.

Dunno the Soviets seemed to have more capacity than modern Russia. The USSR was able to build ballistic missile submarines, nuclear attack submarines, destroyers, cruisers, carriers, etc whereas modern Russia is only capable of building frigates and diesel-electric submarines. And even then it sometimes takes a long time to complete.

At that time they actually were pretty good and would do way way better

@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ the Soviet Union trusted in the Warsaw Pact, I am sure Poland, Hungary, Romania and East Germany would have stopped fighting within weeks

Yes and no. Soviet aviation would have fared better because of the different air defense picture, the systems deployed by the Ukraine are still quite lethal to the RuAF.

Iraq in 2003 169,235 sq mi 25 million people Ukraine in 2022 233,000 sq mi 44 million people Took USA a month to take Iraq in 2003.

When the big rounds cook off at 4000 degrees you don't last long. See the vid of the guy climbing out of The Sherman in Germany with his leg blown off. Also the Panther crew being machine gunned as they bail out of their burning tank.

@@rogersmith7396 Dan Carlin said in a podcast that the real war is what they don't write in the books

We will likely have to wait until we can do longer form stuff because the situation is too fluid and there is both too much and too little information right now.

Agree would be cool

@@BattleOrder Thanks. I'm really down with seeing all the civilian casualties. I saw some dead kids. Been hearing about them being shot or shelled. I thought hearing about some Russian losses might help. Somehow I think its not going to help...

"Yea dude leaving our best MBTs to be gawked at and towed away by the locals is all part of the plan"

@Scaucy man 2.0 yeah like the wage cage

@Scaucy man 2.0 Do your research before making stuff up. If you had spent 60 seconds you could have found out that the cages were an anti suicide drone measure, not anti javalin measure.

@@johnbaker4246 because Ukraine is know for its suicide drones ? javelins are famously top attack and Ukraine getting them made the news weeks bevor

Our era's greatest strategic mastermind is playing 10D chess. He foresaw the Western sanctions, and is now getting rid of surplus equipment to save on maintenance costs. He even got West to pay for it with NLAW and Javelin deliveries. Right? Right...?

@@SS-zg6of I knew it that somebody will split hairs with me on this. The point is that the US intelligence apparatus absolutely knew that the Russians will invade, even when Zelensky tried to negate the information calling it "scare mongering". Of course the Russians didn't invade on the same day that the CIA predicted they will. Putin tried to make fun and redicule the West and their war mongering while he knew all along that the invasion is a done deal. You guys are really desperately clinging to any little piece of information that could potentially work in your favor when the overwhelming majority of the world stands united against you. I know its hard to be in that position, USA was experiencing it for years (although never on the level seen today). I wish you all the best.. Bye.

@@SS-zg6of Yep, the US announced on Feb 22 that Russia will invade within the next 48hours, then the Russians did invade on the midnight of Feb24. However the US also predicted that Ukraine will fall with in about 72hours or 3 days. but as we can see Ukraine is holding on pretty well. So I would say that sometimes they are right sometimes not.

@@aqdv25 They can anticipate the actions, maybe not so much expected such the current execution of those actions.

​@@SS-zg6of Their intel is correct. Their predictions are bollocks. See also Afghanistan.

actualy USA intellingence knew date of Ukraine invasion on lugansk donietsk 6 march or 7th.. that is why they pushed story about Russian invasion.. Russia decided on that info to attack first about 16th feb there is even video about it..so basicly it was who will start first wink wink

Have you seen the Ukrainian loses ? Or you’re just fapping away looking the the Russian loses , Iam no means Russian fan but look at Ukrainians loses too they have far lose more men machine and infrastructures than Russians .

They might beat Ukraine in a conventional conflict, yet they will not be able to hold it. Russia is suffering heavy losses against an smaller and less trained military despite having a massive air force and the element of surprise. Their logistics are shameful. All this shows that they would be at a serious disadvantage against NATO.

@@questionmaker5666 Russia and yheir predecessor soviet willing to suffer more casualty. So its all fine and dandy.

​@@muhacnt7988 Ukraine isn't using civilians as human shields, this is russian disinformation propaganda. Russian forces are attacking civilians as much as they are attacking military personel.

@@muhacnt7988 hello puntin fanboyyyy

Most definitely

It is not even destroyed, also, javelin can do much agains T-90A shrora as showed in iraq, so cope hard.

@@Internetbutthurt How many T-72s have the welded turret and shtora?

yeah except they DONT work lol

The T-72B3M are quite different from the ones encountered in Iraq, similar to how M1A2 and Leopard 2A6 are different from their old versions. But yes ultimately a tank is a tank and anti-tank weapons are made to destroy them.

Angry nails will for sure penetrate T-72, especially older models such as T-72A/M or ones with no modern "cope brick" aka ERA packages. As for T-90 - it will be tougher, but it still needs cope bricks to reduce effectiveness of nails used by NATO tanks

A javelin hit will definitely kill any tanks regardless of cope cage or not. That thing is truly overpowered as an antitank gun.

@@Jfk2Mr the javelin and British anti tank weapons seem to be taking a toll of the t72 and t90 due to their top end attacks where armour is weakest hence the sunroofs appearing on top of Russian tanks . Which works sometimes and others not the tandem weapons deal with the reactive armour. But as always the battle between attack and defence goes on . The Russians storing the ammo in the turret is a mistake. That's why you see a lot of them with turrets blown off

I hope we’ll never get to see that

Most of those images showed vehicles that were stuck or broken down, no sign of damage from any weapons fire just abandoned.

The Donbass militia should thank the allies for supplying them with Javelins and NLAW. They are just as effective against Ukrainian tanks.

you dont say? 😂 that thing will blowup every shit it touches, including all nato vehicles, bunkers and even choppas

@@jimdigriz6210 yes you have a empty tube good for you

@@nineballmk2 haha, watch the news baby.

No. Because at the end of the war, all the acquired equipment will return to the Russian army.

@@dirkdiggler6730 Is there actually a rule on that?

But they forgot to bring food and water to help out the poor ukrainians.

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@@dirkdiggler6730 Cope harder

Why? The germans haven't been in a war since ww2, and thats a predictable video, Germany sucked at supplies and realised starting a war it couldn't finish was dumb

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Recover and reuse if its just fuel shortage I assume. The crew will be accustomed to the equipment as they run similar stuff themselves. Same with the ammunition. As for intelligence gathering, I'm sure there are Nato intelligence assets on the ground/air that will be doing just that.

1-2. The Russian and Ukrainian armies used to be literally the same army not that long ago, training on the same machines. Its all soviet tech. So their equipment is almost completely the same and they have almost the same training. So absolutely everything left by Russians can be used after salvaging. After it got real in 2014 Ukrainian army started preparing better and buying modern weapons. 3. There is some newer Russian tech like on 4:13 but mostly its just well known soviet scrap metal. I don't think there's anything worth any detailed analysis.

I’d like to think they destroyed or disabled what they couldn’t take. I’ve seen people say it’s only one or two or that they abandon broken vehicles to continue the advance but you don’t just leave them unguarded! If we stopped for longer than five minutes we’d park off road in cover and get cam nets deployed. Very unprofessional. On day one intelligence reported to the press that they’d deployed minus engineers, vehicle recovery, sappers, 2/3 of their integral artillery, not all their infantry components and very few other combat service support. Why? Because they couldn’t keep them supplied when sat in Russia and Belarus. The reason the south has done best is they’re supplied via a port.

Поле боя остаётся за армией РФ, вся техника в том числе бывшей украины, возвращается в строй армии РФ.

How do you confirm them? twitter? Ukrainian army stats? Russian army stats?

@@davidanalyst671 counting and geolocating the equipment of the video

That will depend on how well supplied the unit was and whether it's used any ammunition, of course, but many of the tanks abandoned without a fight during the first weekend of the war were said to only have 3-4 rounds in the autoloader.

That's the main concern that so many alt media guys seem to forget. Generally warfare Russia has been training for has been 3rd generation warfare but if you have an army being armed by foreign powers like Ukraine and they essentially have a near complete control of the borders with Moldova, and Poland well that makes things rough for the Russians.

Also for any tanks the Ukrainians can't integrate all it takes is a molovov cocktail down the hatch to permanently disable one

Putin has already lost this war...he just doesn't know it yet.

He will NEVER admit defeat! He hasn't even brought out his "desperation weapons" yet...his chemical, nuclear and (I hope that are NEVER used) biological weapons! When he starts using THOSE, he has SERIOUSLY lost his mind! If he doesn't think the world is against him NOW, just WAIT until he uses THOSE weapons!

@@paulmorris6177 It's already gotten to the point that the sanctions won't end till his regime is removed and sadly I fear he realizes that.

You can thank Brezhnev for building so many of these things.... Russians don't care they probably have more tanks in storage than US has in service

@@Roboticpycotic Well yeah, they have more in storage, than they themselves have in service.

Mostly depends on the crew's interest in even bothering with that, if they are some poor souls tricked into this war I'd imagine they are running out of fuel on purpose and bailing.

Why destroy their own equipment?

@@vitalegvitalegov Generally speaking better to destroy it than have your enemy use it against you.

Why would they? Most of the tanks are far from anywhere where the UA military could utilize them. The Russian military can just pick them up (/refuel) later and have them join another convoy

Yes but a professional force knows when you halt you break track, sat longer than 5 mins get camo nets up. Set sentries. If they truly ran out of fuel then they shouldn’t have. Commanders should have deployed in defence with a reserve of fuel left to fight. The ethos we were trained upon break down was the dismounts can get out and go do their mission but the crew defends to deny the vehicle to the enemy. If needs be destroy or disable but as last resort. You sure don’t leave radios on frequencies, weapons and sensitive tech intact and sure as hell not in fighting condition! These units deserted, if they’d been attacking where are they? Very poor leadership by that battle group commander. If these Ukrainians had any tank training I’d have destroyed all vehicles then burned the last before going back. If not burn them. If you know where fuel cap is pour sand/mud in. Certainly steal what ammo, small arms and intel you can carry.

Soldiers cannot fight on empty stomach either.

@JZ's Best Friend That may work 😂😂

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Russia have more then enough armor to spare..but they dont have soldier ..they just drive around ukraine with out infantry support because they dont have soldiers

@@dzonikg isnt that what basicaly happened in chechnya

then game over for NATO. The rules of the war with Ukraine and the rules of the war with Western cuckolds are different

@@wilsonball7171 game over for everyone. Nuclear weapons are still a thing

These are older models mostly soviet era.

Honestly I doubt it. It's mostly Soviet shit and most don't even seem to have GPS...

@Enclave Soldier I am thinking about the anti air vehicles and there was a jammer vehicle a R-330BMV Borisoglebsk-2B

@@ayeguyy779 T-72B3M came out in 2014, T-80BVM in 2017. T-90 is the oldest as it came out in 1993 with upgrades to the T-90M begining in 2016. The Pantsir came out in 2012. This is mostly new stuff.

most of ukrainian equipment is russian made, you literally can paint a Z in a destroyed ukrainian tank and people will believe it was a russian armored column obliterated

@@ArayaPancho Yep u don't even have to use real paint, Microsoft paint is enough lol :)

@@ArayaPancho and why there are lots of dead russian soldiers around those tanks? MS paint? you can't show everything on youtube, visit telegram to see dead and blood

A lot of the T-80s shown in the video still have tactical markings denoting the 4th Guards.

@@BattleOrder The T-80BV does not have any markings and seems a weird choice of tank for Russia, but not for Ukraine.

I'd be tempted to think they expected to be able to retrieve it because they're expecting to take and hold the ground where it's sitting. You destroy your abandoned equipment when you're retreating. This does seem more like people just can't be bothered to even destroy supplies and weapons left behind. Tank ran out of gas, I'm done. Most of the Russian equipment isn't much of a mystery to the West, and certainly not to the Ukrainians. They need it now. That high-tech SAM vehicle they captured looked like they were taking out some of the electronics and then were about to torch it, with the rag hanging out of the gas tank and all the other vehicles being well back being clues. I think our engineers are getting at least the interesting bits of newer stuff.

@@hamletksquid2702 Russian soldiers where told it will be an exersize, and during an exersize you don't destroy your equipment.

@@fladder64 - I'm pretty sure most of them figured out it wasn't an exercise. Anybody with any kind of map would have known they were way over the border.

As said the Russians probably expected they'd be able to recover many of those vehicles. And few if any of them are really that secret anymore. Maybe the electronics from some of the newer AA systems. Of course, if I was the dictator overseeing this clusterfuck I'd order troops to destroy abandoned vehicles so my enemies (you know, all the world) can't find out what kind of worn-out scrap I'm sending in!

@@Spetulhu those pantsirs s1 and communications command vhielces probably are being stripped now off their radars and electronics and shipped off to the west

Hard to do because Russian soldiers don't have mobile phones with them, so there's many fewer photographic examples of destroyed Ukrainian armour as a result.

After war

both sides literally had the same equipments

Pretty much no evidence exists as Ukrainians don't share their own losses for propaganda and morale reasons.

@@ligametis Yes you wont see it on channels promoted by youtube for propaganda reasons once the russians have finished a true account will be made

Not at all. The Russian Army will be exhausted 10-14 days from now -- unable to take Kiyv, short on beans & bullets again, and with its losses almost double what they are at the moment, and morale still in the toilet. Already Putin's negotiators are ratcheting down their demands every few of days, b/c it's been proven that they can't achieve their military objectives at acceptable cost. Another couple of these ratchets and we'll get a UN-moderated ceasefire followed by Russian withdrawals.

The miracle is already happened. This miracle is a mixture of Ukrainian capabilities, resilience and Russian corruption and incompetence

@@SS-zg6of Sadly there are no Churchills or Rusvelts in the West now:(

Head* only one man is responsible for this...

@@Vegbuh agreed. I’m not anti Russia, I’m anti Putin. I hope one of his own does him in

The generals are often personally complicit in their units' failures. In Russia, if you are given control of something -- a power plant, a police district, an army division, or a rear-area logistics warehouse, say -- you quickly come to treat it as your own, as a government-provided sinecure; an economic opportunity and supplement to your salary. You "hollow it out" for your own gain and those of your fellow officers -- diverting POL and rations, for ex. -- anything that can be sold or traded to civilians (via middlemen), or slipped out of the country to somebody else's army in exchange for cash or "other considerations" like a Mercedes or a foreign apartment. All the while falsifying the relevant reports and bribing inspectors so that everything continues to APPEAR as it should be. I've heard of painted plastic egg crates being found on the sides of Russian tanks' turrets, in place of the special foam-backed steel plates that are supposed to protect against incoming shaped-charge munitions. This is typically Russian -- looks good, performs poorly, but somebody make (or saved) a ruble. Every soldier in Russia knows this sort of stuff is widespread (just as it was in the late Soviet period).

I expect Russian Generals to start falling out of high windows any day now. Even the ones who live on the ground floor.

heads should roll because.... youtube says so? let me write this all down....

I've watched hundreds of wrecks, most of them were never engaged with to begin with but simply abandoned by the Russians, sometimes due to poor morale but often due to lack of diesel. The ones I have seen hit seem to have been exclusively with top attack weapons as NLAW and Javelins. Ukrainian tanks have no chance in hell to penetrate the Russian tanks other than perhaps the really old kit we've seen such as T72A, Ukrainians know this and that's why we haven't really seen much tank on tank fighting going on.

@@k1lkenny wrong.there many ways kill even nevest modernized t90 with RPG-7. but in ways of combined use all works

@@meegomae an RPG 7 even with tandem round can’t cause a catastrophic kill of any newer Russian tanks. I think you don’t understand the point of ERA

@@meegomae bro the rpg7 has trouble against world war 2 tanks a single ERA brick can stop an rpg then there’s the tank armor behind it

@@k1lkenny if you shot a t90 in the back or in the drive wheels with an rpg7 it almost definitely take out the tank

also, russian manpower is not infinite, you can replace a tank, specialty t-90s and similar models, they have plenty on reserve, but can't replace their crew, is safer to abandom a broken one than to lose the personel

In WWII the US had a highly effective equipment recovery program.

When? The US barely lost any tanks in Iraq or Afghanistan...

@@nutyyyy Barely, yes. And then you answered your own question.

@@rogersmith7396 Agreed 👍

Usually more so in defense, though. It's hard to sell an invasion as "defending the Motherland" when Ukraine has very little hardware to attack Russia proper with.

They are still following the old Stalin maxim that in warfare quantity has a quality all of its own.........

You could go to the link in the description/pinned comment and compare the numbers of captured vs. destroyed vehicles.

@@BattleOrder - thanks! Excellent video and detailed info!