In addition, oryx documents visually confirmed losses of more than 10,000 Russian vehicles. It doesn't seem possible to have only a few people killed per vehicle destroyed - even just counting the crew of the vehicle gets you up there pretty fast.
I would recommend checking out some of the Chieftain's videos. Specifically his "Oh bugger. The tank is on fire." segments.
It takes a lot less to disable a vehicle - destroying a tire or breaking a tread - than to destroy a vehicle, but a crew will abandon a disabled vehicle long before it is destroyed by the next tank crew who thinks... "Is that vehicle dead, or just at a stop? Better put some HE through it to make sure."
The short version: not every destroyed vehicle means all crew died onboard.
I would recommend checking out some of the Chieftain's videos. Specifically his "Oh bugger. The tank is on fire." segments.
It takes a lot less to disable a vehicle - destroying a tire or breaking a tread - than to destroy a vehicle, but a crew will abandon a disabled vehicle long before it is destroyed by the next tank crew who thinks... "Is that vehicle dead, or just at a stop? Better put some HE through it to make sure."
The short version: not every destroyed vehicle means all crew died onboard.