T-90A main battle tank. Wikipedia
Russia Beyond The Headlines: T-90 Vladimir tanks join the fight for Aleppo
Russia’s brand-new T-90 tank is seeing its first military involvement in the battle to push back forces opposed to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad from around the city of Aleppo.
The T-90 tank, one of the newest pieces of military hardware to come into service with the Russian armed forces, is having its baptism of fire on battlefields in Syria.
The presence of Russian T-90 tanks in Syria was first reported by Turkish and Iranian media and then confirmed by sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.
The Turkish pro-government paper Yeni Şafak cited a local commander called Mahmut Hasan as saying that they “had been attacked by more than 80 T-72 and T-90 tanks.”
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I've been interested to see how these machines perform in combat. Especially with Arena. Something tells me a T90 gives its buyer more bang for their buck.
The combination of T-90's and upgraded T-72's and T-80's, seems to be making a difference. The SAA used tanks mostly as mobile assault guns, or as bunkered direct fire support, as in open ground, the jihadi's TOW's killed attempts to use tanks as tanks.
Now, in the Aleppo and Ildib fighting, tanks are being used as tanks and are surviving.
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