For anyone unaware of what Oryx does, it’s a blog that is famous for nominally keeping score of destroyed and lost military equipment from every involved participant by counting the equipment featured in internet videos and images.

The obvious question for Oryx’s claims is of course “how are you not fooled by photoshops, different angle/time shots, duplicates, unreleased media, etc.?” Practically speaking it comes down to “trust me bro” because the only given evidence is the media in question and a date of the supposed loss.

In comparison Lost Armour not only has the media and date of the claimed equipment loss, it also has the geolocation (if possible), claimed location where it was lost, and all possible variants of the screenshots and videos of the lost equipment in addition to a unique ID number of the claimed lost equipment.

Also an actually existing unknown faction category instead of the Oryx method of lumping unknowns on the Russian side.

As for the Russian part, well it’s written for a Russian audience with basically most of the website written in Cyrillic.

The link goes to the armored fighting vehicle section of the Ukraine-Russian war but there are also other categories too.

Quick tutorial:

  1. Go to the “Украина” tab and click on “Потери на Донбассе”
  2. From there navigate to the category you’re interested in and click on “Потери” which should always be the top level item of that category.

Categories:

  • Бронетехника ---- Armored Vehicles
  • Артиллерия ---- Artillery (has two categories). Top level is cannon artillery and second level is rocket artillery.
  • Авиация ---- Aviation
  • Прочее ---- Has three categories. Level 1 is Armored Cars (think Tigrs and Humvees); Level 2 is “Shushpanzer” (seems to be technicals); and Level 3 is Navy (including boats and cruiser Moscow).

Russian losses for armored vehicles are currently hidden at the moment but there are entries especially if one looks for geolocated losses like around “Ирпень” for example.

Click on ID 30807 and at the bottom right there are also other entries in the area. All of them are Russian but at the moment will not be displayed on the main query until the SMO ends.-