Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region have captured a very rare Ukrainian T-64BM Bulat tank.
The roughly 100 Bulats that Ukraine’s tank plant in Kharkiv produced starting in the 1990s never really work as advertised. Into storage they went ... until the Ukrainian army apparently got desperate enough to send some of them to the front line.
The Ukrainians seem to have reached that point before late April, as mounting losses of armored vehicles strained the growing roster of Ukrainian brigades. The T-64BM is an oddity. Kyiv’s two active tank brigades and 11 other active heavy brigades generally use T-64BVs, while reserve brigades mostly have T-72s.tank than the ’70s-vintage T-72 is. The T-64BM in theory is more advanced than the T-64BV is, but the army reportedly was unhappy with the type’s new explosive reactive armor.
Around the time of the Russian attack, a few Bulats resided at the Ukrainian army’s tank school in Kharkiv. A pair got knocked out in Russia’s bombardment of that eastern city. The other T-64BMs apparently were in a warehouse or vehicle park somewhere until the army reactivated at least a few of them.
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