There are some benefits to such a system. The T-80, another Russian tank seeing action in the Ukraine invasion, has a similar ammunition loading system. When the T-90 series - the successor to the T-72 - came into service in 1992 its armor was upgraded but its ammunition loading system remained similar to its predecessor’s, leaving it just as vulnerable, Drummond said. They came to the attention of Western militaries during the Gulf wars against Iraq in 19, when large numbers of the Iraqi army’s Russian-made T-72 tanks suffered the same fate - turrets being blown from their bodies in anti-tank missile strikes.ĭrummond said Russia hadn’t learned the lessons from Iraq and that consequently many of its tanks in Ukraine featured similar design flaws with their autoloading missile systems. He said the BMD-4 was a “mobile coffin” that was “just obliterated” when hit by a rocket.īut the design flaw with its tanks should be particularly galling for Moscow as the problems have been so widely telegraphed. He gave the example of the BMD-4 infantry fighting vehicle, typically manned by up to three crew and able to carry another five soldiers.
Drummond said exploding munitions are causing problems for almost all of the armored vehicles Russia is using in Ukraine.
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