Only on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at least two videos showing the destruction of russian T-90M Proryv tanks using FPV kamikaze drones appeared in the public domain. The first attack was carried out by the Adam joint tactical group, the second - by the 3rd Assault Brigade.
Given the fact that, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the day of July 25, the russian occupiers lost a total of 3 tanks, 2 T-90M Proryv tanks of which were destroyed by Ukrainian kamikaze drones - this is a lot in quantitative terms, even not speaking of quality. Thus, according to data from open sources, the russian defense industry is currently capable of producing only up to 10-15 T-90M Proryv tanks per month.
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The lion's share of such achievements belongs precisely to the operators of Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drones, since it is their skill that the effectiveness of hitting depends on.
The operator has a very limited time to attack, and at the same time he has to literally compensate for the effects of all possible factors, such as wind, with his hands, and this is all in addition to the extremely poor image quality on their screens.
On the other hand, the structural flaws of the T-90M Proryv tank itself can play a role here, which can somewhat facilitate the task of defeating them with the help of FPV kamikaze drones. In particular, the russian occupiers clearly tried to predict the option in which Ukrainian fighters would try to hit enemy tanks in the aft projection.
On the footage in one of the videos, we can see that on one of the affected T-90M Proryv tank in the aft projection on the tower and the hull, anti-accumulative grids are welded, but such an "upgrade" did not save the tank from the FPV drone.
It is quite possible that the vulnerability of the russian T-90M Proryv tank in the aft projection is an old problem, since this tank was created back when no one thought about the threat to armored vehicles from kamikaze drones or UAVs of other types.
We can hope that this vulnerability of Russian tanks will help Ukrainian soldiers to scale their successes and hit even more enemy tanks with FPV drones, including the latest T-90M Proryv.
This format of combating enemy armored vehicles is becoming particularly relevant at the moment against the background of the fact that the Russians prefer to shoot at the positions of the Armed Forces from their tanks from distant closed firing positions, not entering anti-tank weapons action zone.
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