![]() ![]() A few dozen spare tanks function as a reserve and also sustain the maintenance float. That’s 70 front-line T-80BVs for seven brigades. We can confirm T-80BVs in the force-structures of the Ukrainian airborne corps’ 25th, 46th, 79th, 80th, 81st and 95th brigades-as well as in an apparent new air-mobile unit that began forming around November. It’s possible planners in Kyiv specifically intend for the Challenger 2s to engage the T-90s and BMP-Ts. It’s the same sector where the Russian army has concentrated its own best T-90 tanks and BMP-T fighting vehicles. The brigades have been operating in the forests around Kreminna, 10 miles north of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Still, it makes sense for the Ukrainian army to prioritize swapping out the 25th and 80th Air Assault Brigades’ T-80BVs for heavier, better-armored, farther-firing Challenger 2s. The 42-ton, three-person T-80BV with its 125-millimeter smoothbore gun has a 1,000-horsepower turbine that normally burns aviation fuel but can, in theory, burn any liquid hydrocarbon fuel. But these brigades train to move quickly, so at present they operate a tank with what is in essence a jet engine. ![]()
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