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On 3 May 2022, the division returned to Russia for refitting. Columns of tanks from the 4th Guards Tank Division passed through the city of Trostianets in Sumy Oblast on 24 February 2022, [23] [24] [25] and units of the division including the 12th and 13th Guards Tank Regiments are reported to have been among the Russian forces which occupied ...
The 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Volunteer Tank Division, also known as the Ural-Lvov Tank Division, is a tank division of the Russian Ground Forces and part of the Moscow Military District's 20th Guards Army. The division traces its heritage back to 1943, during World War II.
This is a list of the former Soviet tank factories.Today most of them are located in the Russian Federation, while only the Malyshev Factory is located in Ukraine.. This list includes the heavy steel manufacturing plants where main production and assembly of medium and heavy armoured vehicles took place, initiated first in the late 1920s as a prerequisite for the developing Red Army doctrine ...
This yields a balance of immediately available tanks of about 4:1 in the Red Army's favour. The T-34 was the most modern in the world, and the KV series the best armoured. The most advanced Soviet tank models, however, the T-34 and KV-1, were not available in large numbers early in the war, and only accounted for 7.2% of the total Soviet tank ...
Volgotanker (Russian: ОАО «Волжское нефтеналивное пароходство „Волгота́нкер“», '"Volgotanker" Volga Oil Tanker Shipping JSC') is a Russian company engaged in the business of tank storage and transporting oil and oil products by tanker along the inland waterways and coastal seas of European Russia.
The 6th Guards Tank Army consisted of the 5th Guards Tank Corps, and 7th and 9th Guards Mechanised Corps, and many smaller formations, [4] in all, a total of 1,019 tanks and self-propelled guns. [3] For this operation, the tank army was restructured such that the infantry, artillery, and armored components were much more balanced than they had ...
Unknown number of tanks brought back from storage because of the losses during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and upgraded/rebuilt. [ 116 ] [ 52 ] As of 16 July 2024, at least 940 (4 T-80B, 584 T-80BV, 4 T-80BVK, 36 T-80BV Obr. 2022, 98 T-80U, 2 T-80UK, 7 T-80UE-1, the only T-80UM2, 125 T-80BVM, 24 T-80BVM Obr. 2022 and 21 unknown variants ...
A Soviet T-62M of the "Berlin" tank regiment which was a part of the 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division, leaving Afghanistan, 1 January 1987. During the Soviet–Afghan War, the T-62 was a primary tank used by the Soviet army. The Soviets used tanks in several ways, with the use of many in fire support bases, while others were employed for convoy ...