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To: ckilmer

If your numbers are true - then the russians have no more equipment.

Those are total numbers, not any one individual type. The Russians have plenty of equipment - condition is another matter.

For individual numbers, Russian has lost maybe 20% of its operational tanks. Each tank destroyed likely accounts for 3 lost soldiers. Most of the equipment losses are trucks and armored personal carriers of which they have thousands. However, there is a rumor that the Russians in the Izum region have taken to using civilian trucks for whatever reason.

there is also a rumor that the main Russian tank manufacture, Uralvogonzavod, has shut due to chip shortage.


7 posted on 04/18/2022 10:04:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
However, there is a rumor that the Russians in the Izum region have taken to using civilian trucks for whatever reason.

Just watched, on German tv, Ukrainian drone footage of a Russian convoy in Mariupol coming under fire and being destroyed.

I was expecting to see tanks, or at least half-tracks, or at least military vehicles - but it was a "column" of three/four brightly-colored civilian vehicles (don't ask me to name the models!) that were shot up / blown up. They were led by a single identifiably military vehicle. So the Russians have been reduced to using (confiscated?) civilian vehicles? It's come to this?

Regards,

8 posted on 04/18/2022 10:30:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: PIF
For individual numbers, Russian has lost maybe 20% of its operational tanks. Each tank destroyed likely accounts for 3 lost soldiers.

Though pro-Ukrainian, I still assume that a lot of those tanks listed as "destroyed" or "captured" had simply been abandoned by the Russians and that they were hence unmanned - so no "lost soldiers" in many cases.

Regards,

17 posted on 04/18/2022 12:23:51 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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