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.

• An elite Russian tank unit was meant to be equipped with advanced T-14 Armata tanks.
• Instead, it's relying on 60-year-old T-62 tanks, according to a UK Defense Ministry update.
• Russia has retrieved about 800 T-62 tanks from storage since summer, the update said.

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 front lines in Ukraine in response to heavy armored-vehicle losses, the UK's Defense Ministry said Monday.

The ministry said in an intelligence update that even the 1st Guards Tank Army, which has long been considered an elite Russian unit, was being reequipped with dated Soviet-era T-62s.