{"id":48608,"date":"2022-09-18T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48608"},"modified":"2023-09-18T00:08:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T22:08:44","slug":"new-humiliation-for-russia-ukraine-captures-a-t-90m-the-most-modern-active-russian-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/18\/new-humiliation-for-russia-ukraine-captures-a-t-90m-the-most-modern-active-russian-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"New humiliation for Russia: Ukraine captures a T-90M, the most modern active Russian tank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia continues to receive bad news in the midst of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kharkov and Kherson regions. The last one has to do with one of her tanks.<\/p>\n

The figures of the great Russian disaster in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive<\/a><\/rel>
\nUkraine humiliates Russia by destroying one of its most modern tanks: the T-90M<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

This afternoon, the Youtube channel Shawshank Redemption<\/a> posted a series of photos of a T-90M Proryv captured by Ukrainian forces<\/a>. From Ukraine Weapons Tracker<\/a> they point out that the tank was possibly captured in the Kharkov region and was covered with Nakidka<\/strong>, a camouflage material used by Russia as thermal insulation and protection against radar signals. The T-90M is the most modern tank active in the Russian Army<\/strong> (the famous T-14 Armata is still undergoing testing) and so far none had been captured.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to available information, Russia has few T-90Ms and assigns them to the best prepared units<\/strong> in the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian outlet Vedomosti.ru<\/a> published in February 2020 that between 2017-2019, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed three contracts for T-90M tanks with a total volume of more than 160 vehicles.<\/strong> The first two contracts they involved the delivery of 60 vehicles between 2018 and 2019, of which 10 had to be built anew, and another 50 T-90 units of previous modifications were upgraded to the T-90M level. It is difficult to know how many T-90Ms the Russian Army has in active service. The aforementioned Russian media added that in 2020 Russia could receive at least 15 T-90M<\/strong>, which indicates a very low manufacturing rate. In any case, it is the rarest tank model in the Russian Army today in active service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As you may remember, on May 4, Ukraine showed a T-90M also destroyed in the Kharkov region<\/a> (above). It was the first T-90M that Russia lost in combat.<\/strong> The T-90M Proryv is a more advanced version of the T-90A, a derivative of the T-90, which appeared in 1992. Like its predecessors, the T-90M has a 125 mm 2A46M-5 cannon<\/strong>, features a redesigned turret with additional armor and a remote-controlled machine gun next to the commander's hatch.<\/p>\n

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The reason why the Russians abandoned this modern battle tank is easy to guess: the vehicle seems to have one of the running tracks broken<\/strong>, and without it it cannot circulate.<\/p>\n

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The captured T-90M bears the \"Z\" displayed on many Russian military vehicles in Ukraine<\/strong>, along with a hexagon with a number 2 (I have not been able to identify the meaning of this last mark).<\/p>\n

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An image of the T-90M with Nakidka tarps and camouflage nets<\/strong> covering almost the entire vehicle, except for its cannon.<\/p>\n

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An image of the T-90M turret<\/strong> with the commander's (left) and gunner's (right) hatches open.<\/p>\n

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The remote control machine gun<\/strong> located on the turret, behind the commander's hatch.<\/p>\n

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The gunner's hatch<\/strong>. You can see the aiming systems it uses, and on the left, in yellow, the gun, fed by an automatic loader.<\/p>\n

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Another image of the gunner's station.<\/strong> A Ukrainian soldier is shown sitting on it, putting his hands on the turret's rotation control.<\/p>\n

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The gunner's station seen from the commander's station.<\/strong> On the right, in yellow, we see the 125mm gun breech.<\/p>\n

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A photo of the commander's hatch.<\/strong> Again we see the closure of the 125 mm gun, in yellow, and on the left part of the autoloader.<\/p>\n

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Another photo of the commander's post.<\/strong> The barrel lock, in yellow, is on the left. Unlike the gunner, the commander has several digital displays.<\/p>\n

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The screens of the commander's post.<\/strong> Further down we see the coaxial machine gun and its ammo box.<\/p>\n

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The right side of the commander's station.<\/strong> The white box on the right appears to be the ammo selection panel for the main gun.<\/p>\n

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The driver's seat of the T-90M<\/strong>, if I'm not mistaken. What we see in the center looks like a gear change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia continues to receive bad news in the midst of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kharkov and Kherson regions. The last one has to do with one of her tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[17417,10731,12043,16153,16374,15307],"class_list":["post-48608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-kharkov","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-t-90","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-24 23:25:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}