Ukraine possesses some of the same tank models that Russia does, but Kiev’s best tank—an updated T-64—is uniquely Ukrainian.
The T-64 was more than adequate to the task. “This particular tank was provided with certain capabilities that were more advanced than NATO tanks that would not appear for an additional 15 or 16 years,” U.S. Army major James Warford wrote in a 1992 thesis.
In short, Ukraine as an accident of history wound up with the more complex and conceptually advanced tank type, while Russia—by far a bigger and richer country—settled on the less sophisticated but more practical tank. Bulat production was slow. When Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and subsequently backed anti-government separatists in Ukraine’s Donbas region, the Ukrainian army went to war mostly with the aged, 1985-vintage T-64BVs in its inventory. Fewer than a hundred Bulats were available.that 440 of its tanks were destroyed or damaged in Donbas between April 2014 and June 2016. Artillery, including rockets and mortars, accounted for most of the losses.
The upgraded T-64s are, in principle, technologically superior to most Russian tanks. But it’s useless comparing one tank to another when the two might never meet in battle.
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