“Russia could run out of infantry fighting vehicles in two or three years, if a recent assessment is accurate. It might run out of tanks around the same time.”
Doesn’t matter, it’s their drones, artillery and missiles that cause most of the damage to Ukraine
“According to one count, the Russian armed forces went to war in Ukraine in February 2022 with 2,987 tanks. After 23 months of hard fighting, the Russians have lost at least 2,619 tanks that independent analysts can confirm.
That’s 1,725 destroyed, 145 damaged, 205 abandoned and 544 captured T-55s, T-62s, T-72s, T-80s and T-90s.
If the Kremlin didn’t have options for replacing war losses, the Russian military would be down to just 368 tanks: far too few to defend against Ukraine’s own armor corps, which between pre-war tanks, restored tanks and donated tanks—minus losses—might number around a thousand vehicles.
But the Kremlin does have sources of replacement tanks: the Uralvagonzavod factory in southern Russia, which manufactures new T-90Ms, plus four other facilities that repair and modernize old tanks that have been moldering in storage. Some for decades.
The big question—one that no outside analyst definitively has answered—is how many tanks Uralvagonzavod can build, and how tanks the other plants can repair.
The Kremlin claims it received 1,500 new and modernized tanks following an intensive industrial effort that roughly tripled vehicle-generation in 2023. If that’s true—a big if—it would be reasonable to assume the Russian armed forces received around 500 new and modernized tanks in 2022.”
What a bullshit article. Roughly paraphrasing “if the war lasts twice as long as it has, Russia may have some problems”. That is NOT running out of tanks.
Hearing Russia’s gonna run out of XYZ since 2022…
“I will take things are complete lies for $500, Alex”
Maybe in places it may be kinda true in the short term, but in overall picture not even close
You unlock a Russian door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another, more insane dimension – a dimension of stupid sounds, a dimension of idiots, a dimension of no mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and zero substance, of things and other things for ants. You’ve just crossed over into the stupidest Russian Twilight Zone.
I do wonder how many they’ll actually be able to refurb or build in the near term. I don’t think their factories can actually produce that many? Not at the rate at which they’re being taken out?
Maybe decent crews are another story.
Classic russia is running out of x, never heard that one before
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“Russia could run out of infantry fighting vehicles in two or three years, if a recent assessment is accurate. It might run out of tanks around the same time.”
Doesn’t matter, it’s their drones, artillery and missiles that cause most of the damage to Ukraine
“According to one count, the Russian armed forces went to war in Ukraine in February 2022 with 2,987 tanks. After 23 months of hard fighting, the Russians have lost at least 2,619 tanks that independent analysts can confirm.
That’s 1,725 destroyed, 145 damaged, 205 abandoned and 544 captured T-55s, T-62s, T-72s, T-80s and T-90s.
If the Kremlin didn’t have options for replacing war losses, the Russian military would be down to just 368 tanks: far too few to defend against Ukraine’s own armor corps, which between pre-war tanks, restored tanks and donated tanks—minus losses—might number around a thousand vehicles.
But the Kremlin does have sources of replacement tanks: the Uralvagonzavod factory in southern Russia, which manufactures new T-90Ms, plus four other facilities that repair and modernize old tanks that have been moldering in storage. Some for decades.
The big question—one that no outside analyst definitively has answered—is how many tanks Uralvagonzavod can build, and how tanks the other plants can repair.
The Kremlin claims it received 1,500 new and modernized tanks following an intensive industrial effort that roughly tripled vehicle-generation in 2023. If that’s true—a big if—it would be reasonable to assume the Russian armed forces received around 500 new and modernized tanks in 2022.”
What a bullshit article. Roughly paraphrasing “if the war lasts twice as long as it has, Russia may have some problems”. That is NOT running out of tanks.
Hearing Russia’s gonna run out of XYZ since 2022…
“I will take things are complete lies for $500, Alex”
Maybe in places it may be kinda true in the short term, but in overall picture not even close
You unlock a Russian door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another, more insane dimension – a dimension of stupid sounds, a dimension of idiots, a dimension of no mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and zero substance, of things and other things for ants. You’ve just crossed over into the stupidest Russian Twilight Zone.
I do wonder how many they’ll actually be able to refurb or build in the near term. I don’t think their factories can actually produce that many? Not at the rate at which they’re being taken out?
Maybe decent crews are another story.
Classic russia is running out of x, never heard that one before
Good.