{"id":46994,"date":"2022-04-05T23:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46994"},"modified":"2022-04-18T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T22:09:41","slug":"the-main-battle-tanks-and-other-vehicles-that-the-czech-republic-is-sending-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/05\/the-main-battle-tanks-and-other-vehicles-that-the-czech-republic-is-sending-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The main battle tanks and other vehicles that the Czech Republic is sending to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until now, the shipment of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, in addition to light weapons, had been reported. The Czechs have gone the extra mile.<\/p>\n

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This Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and Reuters<\/a> have reported the shipment of \"dozens\" of T-72 main battle tanks and BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles from the Czech Army to Ukraine<\/strong>, a military aid that the Czech Government has not wanted to confirm. and that it would have been done very discreetly. Ceska Televize<\/a> and OSINTdefender<\/a> have shown images of that shipment, by rail.<\/p>\n

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A Czech T-72M1 on its way to the Ukraine (Photo: OSINTdefender<\/a>).<\/div>\n

The Czech Army has 86 T-72M1 tanks, of Soviet origin, and 30 T-72M4CZ<\/strong>, a version of the same model modernized in the Czech Republic. Of the 86 Czech T-72M1s, only 20 were active, the rest remaining in storage to date. The Ukrainian Army already had T-72 main battle tanks<\/strong>, so they do not have to train their crews to handle a new model when they receive the Czech tanks.<\/p>\n

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A Czech BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicle on its way to Ukraine (Photo: OSINTdefender<\/a>).<\/div>\n

In turn, the Czech Army has 145 BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong>, a version of the famous Soviet BMP-1 model manufactured in the former Czechoslovakia. All Czech Army BVP-1s were in storage, serving as reserve vehicles. As with the T-72, the Ukrainian Army is also very familiar with the BMP-1<\/strong>, as it had more than a thousand of these vehicles before the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n

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T-72 tanks and ICV BVP-1 on board a train (Photo: OSINTdefender<\/a>).<\/div>\n

The shipment of those T-72s and BVP-1s to Ukraine is the first confirmed delivery of armored vehicles to Ukraine by a Western country since the start of the Russian invasion<\/strong> on February 24. There are other NATO countries that also have vehicles of this type, for having belonged to the Warsaw Pact in the past. Poland has 382 T-72s<\/strong> (part of them in storage), as well as 232 PT-91 Twardys<\/strong>, a local modernized version of the T-72, and about 800 BWP-1 infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong>, the Polish version of the BMP-1.<\/p>\n

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Some of the Czech BVP-1 (left) and T-72 sent to Ukraine (Photo: OSINTdefender<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Bulgaria also has a considerable number of T-72s<\/strong>, with 160 in service and 250 in storage, as well as a hundred BMP-1s. Romania has an older armored fleet, with some 220 T-55s<\/strong> (already very obsolete), of which 108 are in service (the rest are in storage). In addition, the Romanian Army has more than 200 TR-85s<\/strong>, a modernized version of the T-55, and 12 TR-580s, another variant of the same tank. Romania also has more than a hundred MLI-84s, the local version of the BMP-1.<\/p>\n

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The Czech T-72s sent to Ukraine are already obsolete models, although the Russians continue to use this type of battle tank. Many of the Czech T-72s were currently in storage, in reserve (Photo: OSINTdefender<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Slovakia has a very small armored fleet<\/strong>, with 20 T-72M1s and 69 BVP-1s, plus a further 236 BVP-1s in storage. In turn, Croatia has 72 M-84s<\/strong>, the Yugoslav variant of the T-72, and fewer than a hundred BVP M-80s, the Yugoslav equivalent of the BMP-1. Finally, Slovenia only has 14 M-84s<\/strong>, 30 M-55s (a variant of the now outdated T-55) and 52 BVP M-80s. The Albanian and Montenegrin Armored Forces are very small, while Hungary has already announced that it does not want to send weapons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Other countries may have already shipped tanks to Ukraine, but have not announced it.<\/strong> Certainly, it's hard to keep something as flashy as a trainload of tanks headed for Ukraine a secret. In any case, the discretion of these shipments would make it possible to avoid the frustrated delivery of the MiG-29 to Ukraine<\/strong> due to an indiscretion by the European Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, the Spanish socialist Josep Borrell.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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