💰 Russia's elite tank unit was meant to get its most advanced armor. Instead it's fighting with obsolete Soviet tanks from the '60s, UK intel says.

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Russia's military is fighting with 60-year-old T-62 tanks, having been forced to bring the retired vehicles out of storage to the frontlines in Ukraine in response to heavy armored vehicle losses, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. said in an intelligence update on Monday that even the 1st Guards Tank Army, which has long been considered an elite Russian unit, is being reequipped with dated Soviet-era T-62s. Javelin missiles, with military experts telling Insider that Russia is experiencing heavy losses because it doesn't know how to use its tanks properly

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