A WORD BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER. The following information is from Oryx Intelligence Consulting.
They are on the ground and using other verifiable photographic and video data to come up with their numbers.
It should be pointed out here that they are more on the conservative side than from MOD and a handful of "thinktanks" that are also tracking these numbers closely.
Equipment is listed by type i.e.,
Tanks, APC, IFV etc. etc.
You must read the para. of ref. 2.
The link for me by way of example between ref. 1 and Ref.2 is the following...
"One Ukrainian battalion, the Carpathian Sich,
seized 10 modern T-80 tanks and five 2S5 Giatsint 152-mm self-propelled howitzers after it entered the town of Izyum last month, said its deputy chief of staff, Ruslan Andriyko."
Now look at ref. 2; scroll down to the
T-80BVM a total of
46 tanks that fall into in all categories of the equipment's status
starting with destroyed equipment first and work through to
damaged captured/captured.
I get
21 captured T-80BVM EXCLUDING I believe were
3 damaged/ captured ones and
1 damaged/abandoned the rest were again, destroyed.
By my count that makes
7 "light" platoons OR 5 "normal" platoons based on the current Ukrainian OOB.
You'll see
much higher numbers for the
captured T-72B3 and our
T-72B3/4 (Listed as
T-72B3 Obr. 2016 in the ref..)
Many sites are using their data in comparison to other known sources what's important here if you read para 1 ref. 2, is that they believe the numbers are higher but
cannot prove it.
I'm more then reasonably sure this is pretty good data.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...d194f3ff6b96fd
(Original article from the Wall Street Journal. See para.11.)
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/0...equipment.html
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/
Regards,
Pat
