A Very Old Russian Tank May Have Attacked Ukraine's Dnipro Bridgehead
Sometime apparently last week, Ukrainian drones knocked out a Russian T-62 tank just a couple of miles east of Krynky.
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Sometime apparently last week, Ukrainian drones knocked out a Russian T-62 tank just a couple of miles east of Krynky.
For all its flaws as a tank, the T-62 is better than no tank at all. Which is why the 110th Territorial Brigade would happily use captured Russian T-62s.
The T-62-turned-howitzer can’t out-range all small drones, so its crew better had protect itself some other way. Even if this protection makes the tank extra bulky.
The T-62 isn’t moving, not even between shots. That’s what you’d expect if the tank were functioning as a sort of semi-mobile pillbox.
The tanks probably are destined to function as mobile, minimally-manned pillboxes—or, packed with explosives, as unmanned vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices.