![]() It’s possible to upgrade the optics in a T-55 or T-62 by swapping out the 70-year-old TSh 2-22 gunner’s sight for a 1PN96MT-02 analog sight that, while not as sophisticated as the state-of-the-art Sosna-U digital sight is, at least is new and reliable. In reality, it’s a short-term expedient-and a self-defeating one, at that. "The most interesting thing is that there are no crews in the unit who can operate these tanks," Kovalenko said.Īssigning new crews to old tanks might seem like a solution to this problem. ![]() Kovalenko noted Russia’s growing shortage of good tank crews when he tracked a batch of a dozen restored T-72s, T-80s and T-90s reaching a Russian army motorized unit near Svatove in eastern Ukraine. It’s possible thousands of experienced Russian tankers have died in the wider war replacing them might be as difficult as replacing their tanks is. After all, many of those 2,000 tanks they’ve lost in Ukraine took their crews with them when they blew up. Still, the Russians seem to appreciate the old tanks’ less demanding training requirement. Old, crude tech that might not last long in combat-and which might end up getting new tankers killed faster.
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