T-72 Urals in storage in Russia. Russian forces in Ukraine have lost around five tanks, on average, every day for more than 460 days since Russia widened its war on the country. That’s a lot of tanks.

April 16, 2015: In Syria, the T-72 tank remains the most commonly encountered armored vehicles on both sides of the current Civil War. A captured T-72 is considered as a sort of treasure by the ...