What I heard was: A ukrainian tank convoy was expected to pass the area where the ukrainian soldiers were in the video. This information was intercepted by nearby russian tank convoy who covered their identifying features (the big z) and entered the area to surprise the ukrainians. If this is correct then it worked very well.
The footage shown that the ERA shape and layout on those tank is likely Kontakt-1, which leave only a few possibility - T-64BV, T-72AV, and T-80BV.
(I’m leaving T-72B family out because the way they placed Kontakt-1 on the turret is so different from the rest it’s unlikely to be the one in the footage.)
The T-64BV is mainly use by Ukrainian, while the rest is mainly use by Russian. One of the main visual different of the T-64BV compare to T-72 and T-80 is that it has provision to mount its infrared search light on the left side of its main gun, while the T-72 and T-80 has the same mount on the right side.
In the footage, you’ll notice that the tank has some empty space on the left side of its main gun, consist with where you’d normally find infrared search light on T-64BV. Until we have higher resolution picture of the incident, or one which clearly shown a Z marking or something similar, I think it’s more likely it’s Ukrainian tank than Russian.
I’m pretty sure it was a Russian tank, apparently the ukrainians were expecting tanks to pass by so they assumed it was one of theirs and ignored it.
Didnt thay thought it was an ukranian tank? With is funny how they ignored the big ass z on the side of the tanks.
What I heard was: A ukrainian tank convoy was expected to pass the area where the ukrainian soldiers were in the video. This information was intercepted by nearby russian tank convoy who covered their identifying features (the big z) and entered the area to surprise the ukrainians. If this is correct then it worked very well.
I don’t think it’s a Russian tank.
The footage shown that the ERA shape and layout on those tank is likely Kontakt-1, which leave only a few possibility - T-64BV, T-72AV, and T-80BV.
(I’m leaving T-72B family out because the way they placed Kontakt-1 on the turret is so different from the rest it’s unlikely to be the one in the footage.)
The T-64BV is mainly use by Ukrainian, while the rest is mainly use by Russian. One of the main visual different of the T-64BV compare to T-72 and T-80 is that it has provision to mount its infrared search light on the left side of its main gun, while the T-72 and T-80 has the same mount on the right side.
In the footage, you’ll notice that the tank has some empty space on the left side of its main gun, consist with where you’d normally find infrared search light on T-64BV. Until we have higher resolution picture of the incident, or one which clearly shown a Z marking or something similar, I think it’s more likely it’s Ukrainian tank than Russian.