Russia Has Now Run Out Of Armored Vehicles Even Before Predicted Date

https://www.thelowdownblog.com/2025/07/russia-has-now-run-out-of-armored.html

by jonfla

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  2. The legacy stockpile is huge but finite. When it’s gone, it’s gone, and new vehicles aren’t going to cover their losses.

  3. But there seems to be an infinite supply of headlines like this

  7. If the information about Ukraine having trouble to enlist new soldiers is true that’s very worrisome as well.

  8. Some interesting info if you drill down.

    The author says that Ukraine has ~ 130 brigades, and they’re short of 80,000. ~130 is technically correct, but if you add in the couple brigades currently working up, a few oddball brigades like the Air Force Rifles and the General staff Brigade, and count the dozens of various regiments in the assault forces, the special forces and the National Guard as half a brigade, the brigade equivalency is closer to 150.

    Second, keep in mind that these aren’t your father’s mechanized brigades. The standard ized brigade pre war was 3 infantry battalions, one tank battalion an artillery group and specialists (recon,engineer,medical, drones, logistics)- about 2500-3000 men at full strength. It’s a rare mech brigade now days with fewer that 6 battalions, many of the old guard have 8-10, the artillery groups have expanded, and most have a full drone battalion that was a small company pre war- 4000- 6000+ paper strengh.

    Third, the new corps structure is syphoning off about 2000 troops per corps. Though still a work in process, each seems to be getting a full artillery brigade, a Guards infantry battalion, recon and drone elements, and beefed up specialist units.

    Being 80,00 troops short sounds like alot, but that’s only about 500 per brigade but not a huge shortfall for large brigades playing defense. And that’s lower than the 120,000 short we were hearing before they torpedoed the whole ‘New troops go to New brigades’ FUBAR last year. The bigger problem is exhaustion, not raw numbers. There’s a whole lot of soldiers who could use 3 months of R&R.

  9. So with Russian tanks out of the way, I’d hope that razor wire, machine guns, mines and drones should wipe out any assault attempts, or is there another aspect to it? Can we hope for the line to completely stabilize soon, especially around Pokrovsk?

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