The T-90M is prized for its high survivability relative to older designs, and benefits from new variants of the Relikt explosive reactive armour and the Afghanit active protection system, a more powerful engine, extra protection to isolate internally stored munitions, and much more advanced base armour. Images do not give a strong indication of whether the tank’s crew survived, but it remains a significant possibility with the vehicle appearing relatively intact.

The Russian Army reportedly intends to eventually field around 600 T-90M tanks, upgrading 400 older T-90As to this standard while building up to 200 more. The tank’s performance in Ukraine, and those of older vehicles such as the T-72B3, could well affect these plans. It could either accelerate the rate of T-90M acquisitions or cut planned numbers in favour of either less tanks in the Russian Army or of more advanced T-14 tanks. While the T-90M is a descendant of the T-64 design from the 1960s, albeit very heavily evolved and improved, the T-14 is not based on from any prior production tank and represents a clean sheet design - albeit one far more costly than the T-90. Whether the T-90M will prove successful in Ukraine thus remains to be seen, particularly as the circumstances of the single confirmed loss remain unknown. .

.  RUSSIA Т-90, вооруженные силы России .

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 11, 2023.The Kremlin passed legislation to use tools of digital authoritarianism to digitize and improve the effectiveness of issuing summonses and crack down on Russian draft dodgers. The Russian State Duma adopted a bill in its third reading on April 11 to create a digital unified register of Russian citizens eligible for military service.

[1] Russian military recruitment offices will use the digital register to issue summonses to military service. The unified register harvests Russian citizens’ personal identification information—including medical, educational, and residence history, foreign citizenship status, and insurance and tax data—from multiple Russian legal entities, including Russia’s Federal Tax Service, investigative bodies, courts, medical institutions, the Russian Pension and Social Insurance Fund, the Central Election Commission, and federal and local authorities.

[2]  Summoned individuals may not leave Russia and must appear at a military recruitment office within 20 days of being summoned. The law bans summoned individuals who are 20 days delinquent for reporting from driving vehicles, buying or selling real estate, and taking out loans. A senior Russian legislator stated that the law will correct some of the bureaucratic shortcomings that appeared during Russia’s partial mobilization in September 2022.

[3] Some Russian milbloggers who have long agitated for more aggressive force generation policies praised the law and stated that it exemplifies healthy interactions between Russian civil society and government..

A Ukrainian service member stands next to a tank at a military training ground near a front line in Zaporizhzhia region..

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2023.烏克蘭春季的大反攻戰是否依計劃執行? .

2023.俄羅斯的春季總攻擊何時展開?

俄羅斯至少已經調動T-90.tanks.3個裝甲師移防烏克蘭東部地區,應戰由美國/NATO.提供豹2. LEOPARD.2.坦克車及M1A2.主戰坦克車.由此看來2023.春季上演坦克車大決戰是遲早的事,除此之外英國提供至少15萬枚貧鈾彈(穿甲型)給予烏克蘭使用專門獵殺俄羅斯的坦克車.

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Pentagon looks to shift dynamic in Ukraine war, without Abrams tanks?

The United States aims to break the dynamic of grinding warfare and near-frozen front lines in Ukraine with newly announced military capabilities that it hopes will breathe fresh momentum into Kyiv’s battle against Russian forces, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday (18 January).

But Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s top policy adviser, said the Pentagon still wasn’t prepared to meet Kyiv’s calls for gas-guzzling M1 Abrams main battle tanks.

“I just don’t think we’re there yet,” said Kahl, who had just returned from a trip to Ukraine. “The Abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. It’s expensive. It’s hard to train on. It has a jet engine.”

Kahl’s remarks came ahead of this week’s gathering of top defense officials from dozens of countries at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany to coordinate military aid for Kyiv.

M1A2 MOVE TO UKRAINE..