Rejected for 40 years of development: the Russian elite of the Marines were armed with T-55 tanks

The 810th Guards Brigade of the Marine Brigade at the beginning of a full-scale war had a T-80BM. During the hostilities of the Armed Forces, three times were composed of a brigade of defeat. So now they get tanks of the 1950s. The Russian 810th Guards Brigade of the Marines, which was based in Ukrainian Sevastopol at the time of 1980, had a battalion of T-55 tanks. A few decades later, the brigade began to receive T-55 tanks again. Forbes reports.

In 2024, the 810th Navy Brigade was fighting in the Kherson region. Against Ukraine, the 810th Brigade of Marines has been involved in February 2022. Initially, they were equipped with T-80 tanks. The Defense Forces of Ukraine twice actually completely destroyed the brigade. They lost a lot, if not all T-80 tanks, the author writes. The Kremlin began to re-arry the military with long-term storage of the T-55 from the 1950s.

The last significant defeat of the Ukrainian military was inflicted by the 810th Brigade in the fall of 2023, when the Marines of the Armed Forces forced the Dnieper and occupied the bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper. It was the third defeat of the Russian Marines. The authors say that the invaders lost 157 pieces of equipment on the Left Bank, including 19 tanks. However, these losses relate to the 810th Brigade, the 104th Airborne Assault Division and other regiments.

The 810th brigade has one tank battalion, which has about 30 tanks. The author suggests that the Russian Federation is not able to restore enough T-80 tanks that have been armed. However, the T-55 did not undergo any modernization after recovery. The only additional protection was the "visor" on the tower from FPV-pins. At the same time, the 810th brigade was considered elite in the Russian army. "There was a time when the Kremlin could name the 810th Brigade" Elite ".