![]() It’s not for no reason that Uralvagonzavod is installing older 1PN96MT-02 sights, with an unimpressive two-mile range, on many of the revamped T-72s. ![]() All that is to say, when the French parts run out, the Sosna-U could get a lot harder to produce. The Kremlin can, with great effort, get around sanctions by acquiring items from middlemen in non-sanctioned countries.īut it’s unlikely Russian companies, which aren’t exactly known for their precision manufacturing, can copy the optics without also sacrificing quality. The Sosna-U, which allows a tank gunner to spot a target as far as four miles away in daylight or darkness, reportedly is built around unlicensed French optics that Russian industry acquired through not-quite-legal means around a decade ago.įoreign sanctions, which have tightened since Russia first invaded Ukraine back in 2014, have stymied though not halted the flow of military-grade electronics into Russia. The most important feature of the T-72B3 Obr. ![]() Rather, it seems Uralvagonzavod will run out of tank optics before it runs out of tank chassis. But a shortage of intact hulls might not be the main problem. It’s unclear how many are rust-free and in reasonably good repair. ![]() There could be as many as 5,000 old T-72s in storage across Russia. They and their hapless crews bought time for Uralvagonzavod to identify old T-72s that the firm could recondition, slightly upgrade and send to Ukraine to begin restoring the Russian army’s depleted tank battalions. The Ukrainians destroyed at least 20 T-62s and captured enough of them-40 or so- to equip their own T-62 battalion. ![]() Those T-62s that the Kremlin rushed to Ukraine last summer didn’t last long. The T-62s never had sophisticated subsystems, so hundreds of them still were intact even after decades of disuse. Sophisticated optics and electronics tend to degrade fast, or get stolen, while in open storage in Russia. ![]()
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