![]() The Ukrainian army has captured at least 43 T-62s. ![]() We don’t know how many BREM-62s the Ukrainians are converting. Every T-62-based ARV could recover several derelict T-64s, T-72s, T-80s or T-90s. But a BREM-62 doesn’t need to fight to contribute to the war. The four-person T-62 with its outdated optics and 115-millimeter main gun is no match for modern tanks and missile-armed infantry. So it made sense, once captured T-62s started piling up, to convert some of them into a new kind of heavy ARV-a BREM-62, if you will. Think of those tractors as do-it-yourself ARVs. It’s not for no reason that one of the iconic images of the war is a Ukrainian farm tractor dragging away a damaged Russian tank. The Ukrainian army never had enough ARVs to recover its own tanks-to say nothing of also recovering the roughly 2,800 Russian vehicles the Ukrainians so far have captured. Put another way, the Ukrainians had just one ARV for every 25 tanks.
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