Here's the T-90 allegedly hit by Suqur al-Jebal #TOW last 26th Feb.in W. #Aleppo. Right Shtora broken. @MinsterTX pic.twitter.com/oBUrHj0TJk— Qalaat Al Mudiq (@QalaatAlMudiq) March 20, 2016
Defense Tech: On the Russian Tank Damaged by a US Missile in Syria
The incident involving a Russian-made T-90 tank that was struck by a U.S.-made TOW missile in Syria is making headlines again after a picture surfaced allegedly showing the damage.
Last month, a YouTube video was published that depicts a Syrian rebel in Sheikh Aqil, a town near Aleppo, firing a BGM-71 TOW (for tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided) missile at a T-90 tank apparently operated by Syrian forces. The T-90 is Russia’s main battle tank and entered service in the 1990s.
Last week, as reported by War is Boring and The Washington Post, an image was posted on Twitter by a user identified as Qalaat Al Mudiq that appears to show the damaged tracked vehicle.
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WNU Editor: I expected more damage. My original post on this story is here. The video of the tank being hit by the TOW missile is below ....
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It was a TOW-2 or a TOS-1 that was fired at the T-90. Neither model of TOW is designed to take on reactive armour, and the T-90 is a much different "animal" than "monkey model" T-55, T-64's and T-72's.
Impressive result no matter how you look at it
Not really, Arena was turned off , the tank crew survived uninjured, the tank was recovered, is repairable and can actually still drive and fight, ( according to the manufacturer),
Where the same hit on a "monkey model" T-55, T-64 or T-72, even with second generation Reactive Armour would have brewed up and be left as useless junk.
Good stuff.
Canada will take 100.
I mean impressive from a tank designers and crews view point.
Job well done, no wonder those poor ukranians got brewed
These next gen armata tanks are going to take some stopping.
The Ukies got "brewed" by a rain of artillary and MLRS's falling on them while trapped in Cauldrons or fleeing in convoy.
There were very few tank on tank engagements or AGTM use in the Donbass, and the Ukie's upgraded T-64's and T-72's fared as well, if not better than the DPR and LPR's motley mix of T34-76's, IS-3's "Monument Tanks" and reclaimed T-64's and T-72's.
BTW, the LPR's surviving 1944 T34-76 still survives, being used as a rear area armoured transport. Sadly, it never got to fire it's gun in anger, ( lack of ammo), and only served as a forward OP for the artillary.
(another side note), all the Ukies armour was Soviet Pattern, not the downgraded "monkey models" sold by the USSR abroad.
Yes, the vast majority of the Ukrop amour has been destroyed by Grad fire. Whole columns/formations have been turned to grease spots. As the pics below show, Grad anti armour ammunition is devastating.
Incidentally, I don't believe there ever was a T64 "monkey" export model. The tank was expensive to build and featured a great deal of innovations (and teething issues!!) in its day. It was reserved for Soviet use. The T72 was the less expensive model with lower end marks for export and licensed production (eg T 72M and Iraqi "Lion of Babylon").
The Donbass "Free Republic" forces did end up with some upgraded 72s from you-know-who.
https://youtu.be/Nh-oDopa798
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.com/2015/01/military-studies-armedresearch-is.html?m=1
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/tag/artillery
http://englishrussia.com/2014/08/26/when-a-multiple-launch-rocket-system-grad-hits-the-target/3/
http://splav.org/v3/grad.asp
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