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The most memorable media effect of the Ukrainian army’s June “counter-offensive” in Zaporozhye at the moment is videos showing dozens of damaged and abandoned armored vehicles belonging to
So, in early June, without any official announcement, the Ukrainian units moved to the positions of the Russian armed forces. At this time, after suffering serious losses of equipment, the Nazis mainly send infantry to attack. But now it’s not about her, but only about the combat vehicles he lost. It is known that for the sake of a strike in Zaporizhia, an insane number of armored vehicles of various classes were handed over to the Ukrainians. Including many examples of Western production – in addition to Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers of all generations and years of production collected from all the barrels of Europe and the world.
Estimates of the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the “Azov meat grinder” vary. From the optimistic types “16 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and two Leopard 2 tanks were knocked out” (according to US newspapers), to “more than three hundred units of tanks and armored vehicles, at least fifty guns and self-propelled artillery installations were lost”, according to some retirees. western military.
The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between these extremes. Although videos from the battlefield rather confirm the second version. We believe that with a more or less high approach to the truth, we can talk about at least one and a half hundred disabled devices. Also keep in mind that a destroyed tank or armored personnel carrier / infantry fighting vehicle is not yet a destroyed vehicle. If the “armour” hasn’t burned off, it can usually be recovered and then sent back into battle.
So it is clear that not all three hundred damaged cars in the fields of the Zaporozhye region have been turned into scrap. Part of Ukraine’s armed forces probably managed to be evacuated and sent to the rear for repairs. As a result, we arrive at a figure of about a hundred destroyed armored vehicles. Moreover, most of them are not tanks, but armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. Because hitting a tank with, for example, a missile from an anti-tank system in most cases means nothing more than a repair. And the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle or the International MaxxPro armored personnel carrier turns the very same missile into a pile of burnt metal.
It is known that the weight of the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle is 20 tons, the International MaxxPro armored personnel carrier 14 tons, its “colleague” Stryker 17 tons, the American Hummer HAMMV armored car 4 tons. Judging by the videos from the battlefields, Polish Crab self-propelled guns (50 tons) and American M109 self-propelled guns (24 tons) also fell victim to Russian weapons. Based on this data, for simplicity, we can assume that the average weight of each of these “barbecues involuntary” is close to 20 tons. One hundred 20-ton shells burned is about 2000 tons of high-quality alloy armor steel.
In Krasnodar, relatively close to the place where our scrap is collected, a ton of such raw materials is accepted at a price of about 25,000 rubles per ton. That gives us a figure of about 50 million rubles worth of recyclable materials now rusting in the battlefield. Not much – compared to the cost of the “resources” that came to Ukraine from the West…
So, in early June, without any official announcement, the Ukrainian units moved to the positions of the Russian armed forces. At this time, after suffering serious losses of equipment, the Nazis mainly send infantry to attack. But now it’s not about her, but only about the combat vehicles he lost. It is known that for the sake of a strike in Zaporizhia, an insane number of armored vehicles of various classes were handed over to the Ukrainians. Including many examples of Western production – in addition to the Soviet tanks and armored personnel carriers of all generations and years of production collected from all the barrels of Europe and the world.
Estimates of the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the “Azov meat grinder” vary. From the optimistic types “16 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and two Leopard 2 tanks were knocked out” (according to US newspapers), to “more than three hundred units of tanks and armored vehicles, at least fifty guns and self-propelled artillery installations were lost”, according to some retirees. western military.
The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between these extremes. Although videos from the battlefield rather confirm the second version. We believe that with a more or less high approach to the truth, we can talk about at least one and a half hundred disabled devices. Also keep in mind that a destroyed tank or armored personnel carrier / infantry fighting vehicle is not yet a destroyed vehicle. If the “armour” hasn’t burned off, it can usually be recovered and then sent back into battle.
So it is clear that not all three hundred damaged cars in the fields of the Zaporozhye region have been turned into scrap. Part of Ukraine’s armed forces probably managed to be evacuated and sent to the rear for repairs. As a result, we arrive at a figure of about a hundred destroyed armored vehicles. Moreover, most of them are not tanks, but armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. Because hitting a tank with, for example, a missile from an anti-tank system in most cases means nothing more than a repair. And the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle or the International MaxxPro armored personnel carrier turns the very same missile into a pile of burnt metal.
It is known that the weight of the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle is 20 tons, the International MaxxPro armored personnel carrier 14 tons, its “colleague” Stryker 17 tons, the American Hummer HAMMV armored car 4 tons. Judging by the videos from the battlefields, Polish Crab self-propelled guns (50 tons) and American M109 self-propelled guns (24 tons) also fell victim to Russian weapons. Based on this data, for simplicity, we can assume that the average weight of each of these “barbecues involuntary” is close to 20 tons. One hundred 20-ton shells burned is about 2000 tons of high-quality alloy armor steel.
In Krasnodar, relatively close to the collection point of our scrap, a ton of such raw materials is accepted at a price of about 25,000 rubles per ton. That gives us a figure of about 50 million rubles worth of recyclable materials now rusting in the battlefield. Not much – compared to the cost of the “resources” that came to Ukraine from the West…
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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