Ukrainian Legion Soldier about T-55s

I asked a German combat engineer (  / buttjerfreimann  ) fighting in Ukraine with the Legion what he thinks about the situation that Russia is getting T-55s out of storage. Of course, there were a lot of reactions on twitter and elsewhere. Yet, I wanted to know what an actual soldier fighting in Ukraine has to say about it, since he unlike most of us has actually skin in the game. I also asked him about various other assessments, e.g., if he would prefer fighting a T-72 without explosive reactive armor like a T-72M versus a T-55 with a lot of explosive reactive armor, like the T-55AMV.

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Grau, Lester W.; Bartles, Charles K.: The Russian Way of War. Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces. Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO): Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, 2017.

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Cover Photos:
Marcomogollon, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
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Photos used:
T-72M, MHM, Dresden, 2012
photo by Billyhill, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
T-55AMV, Patriot Park, Moscow,
photo by Vitaly V. Kuzmin, http://vitalykuzmin.net
Maxim M1910 variant
Photo by Zorro2212, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
T-55AM, Patriot Park, Moscow
photo by Vitaly V. Kuzmin, http://vitalykuzmin.net
T-62M, Patriot Park, Kubinka, 2019,
photo by Vitaly V. Kuzmin, http://vitalykuzmin.net


00:00 Intro
00:44 Reaction about the T-55?
01:30 Disregarding the T-55 warranted?
04:30 T-55 Ammo Shortage?
05:37 T-72M vs T-55AVM
07:20 T-72M without thermal vs T-55 with thermal
08:12 Ineffective & Obsolete Weapon Systems?
09:19 Most threatening Weapon Systems?
11:42 Final Remarks


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