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Old 09-21-2023, 09:48 PM
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Back in March I had used the Wayback Machine to pull the last Oryx report for each month and track losses, although there are a few caveats:
1. Some losses ascribed to a particular month could be older Unidentified Losses that became Identified during that month.
2. I grouped tanks by relative age, so the T-80B, T-80BV, and T-80U were all grouped as "old T-80" and the T-80BVM as "new T-80." In general, a Soviet upgrade is "old" and a post-Soviet upgrade is "new."
3. In September 2022 Oryx changed from just listing tanks as Unidentified to listing them as an Unidentified type if possible (e.g. Unidentified T-80). This makes the numbers for Unidentified tanks in that quarter weird.

Using the same time groupings that Perun used:
Feb-Apr 2022
595 total losses
0 T-62, 16 T-64, 175 Old T-72, 187 New T-72, 94 Old T-80, 19 New T-80, 19 Old T-90, 0 New T-90, 85 Unidentified

May-Jul 2022
325 total losses
1 T-62, 19 T-64, 73 Old T-72, 62 New T-72, 47 Old T-80, 10 New T-80, 1 Old T-90, 2 New T-90, 110 Unidentified

Aug-Oct 2022
507 total losses
39 T-62, 8 T-64, 87 Old T-72, 157 New T-72, 72 Unknown T-72, 118 Old T-80, 25 New T-80, 6 Unknown T-80, 5 Old T-90, 3 New T-90, -33 Unidentified

Nov-Jan 2023
240 total losses
24 T-62, 7 T-64, 34 Old T-72, 64 New T-72, 10 Unknown T-72, 50 Old T-80, 14 New T-80, -2 Unknown T-80, 11 Old T-90, 5 New T-90, 23 Unidentified

At some point I need to go through and scrape the rest of 2023.

Even in this shorter period, the T-62 losses show a huge change, with 1 positively identified as lost out of the first 920 tank losses, and then a full 10% of losses in the last time period being identified as T-62.

T-72 losses are cyclical, being 60-67% of total losses in the first and third quarters and 42-45% in the second and fourth quarters. They may have been used to spearhead assaults during the good weather months and hoarded away for unit reconstruction during the bad weather months.
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