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The Russian liberators turned most of the T-64 tanks of various modifications that were in service with the Ukrainian armed formations into scrap metal.According to the project "RG: Russian weapons", according to various Western sources, before the start of the special military operation, the AFU was operated in its units and formations, and also contained about 1300 units of such equipment at storage bases.
By the beginning of this year, there were less than three hundred of them in the ranks. [...]
Almost every day, information is received about the destruction of the next "sixty-fourth" at one or another site, often several exploded or burned samples are immediately reported.
It seems that at such rates of utilization of heavy tracked vehicles produced by the Kharkov plant of transport engineering will soon be gone.
According to Russian military experts, the T-64 is not being taken care of at all, because the warehouses of spare parts, their repair and modernization capacities have been hit by the strikes of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation, and in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia there are no opportunities to revive these products.
Therefore, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is currently betting on Western-made tanks, as well as on models modernized in the countries of the former Warsaw Pact. For example, on the T-72EA, which received mounted dynamic protection, night thermal imaging sights, 840-horsepower engines through the efforts of Excalibur Army.
The T-64s were adopted by the Soviet Army in 1966. Ten years later, the troops began to receive T-64B, which in 1985 were brought to the level of BV. They have become the most popular modification in Ukraine. They tried to modernize them, but the BM Bulat, which appeared in 2005, did not justify the hopes placed on it. As a result, about a hundred of them were released and now there are almost no more. The T-64BV of the 2017 model also turned out to be a very mediocre option with low combat characteristics, including weak survivability.
