No-one in NATO is currently producing new tank or IFV hulls, for example.
The "new" vehicles are refits, just like the Russians are pulling things out of storage.
But the Russians are also producing 1000+ new vehicles per year.
“Euromaiden Press ^ | 2 Dec 2025 | David Axe”
David Axe is likely the most PRO-UKRAINE reporter in the media, and HE is the one stating this.
...yet, just today, we had a Zeeper claiming that Russia is of military vehicles.
The OBVIOUS question is: Why haven’t these Zeepers been Zotted, considering their non-stop LIES on this site.
Blow up ad cardboard tanks
But remember - Zeepers like to tell us that even NY City has higher GDP ($2.2 Trillion) than that of all of Russia ($2.1 Trillion)!
Even though NY City produces no vehicles, no tanks, no airplanes, no missiles, no energy, no ships, no microchips, grows no food, etc. etc.
But they DO trade a lot of bonds and stocks at a margin, which shows up in GDP figures
so I guess that makes NY City stronger than Russia.
Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine
If I were writing this article, it wouldn't be about armored vehicles. It would be about how I've noticed that in videos lately I've seen the same things over and over again. Namely, Russian troops on motorbikes and in light cars and trucks with the doors ripped off.
By contrast, I then see Ukrainian troops still moving around in armored APCs and cars/trucks with doors. The latter are magnets for drones, which can take out a whole squad at once inside the vulnerable, slow APCs. In the car/truck drone videos typically the last thing I see are doors being flung open, but without time for the occupants to emerge from the vehicle.
Meanwhile the Russian motorbikes and doorless cars are much lighter and more agile and you can only hit one soldier at a time on a bike. The soldiers are also able to fling themselves clear at the last second from the doorless vehicles.
I've seen a lot of comments from westerners mocking the stripped down Russian approach, as if continuing to use up expensive Western military vehicles is an intelligent approach. It is not.
Aren’t the Poles building new tanks? And buying some from SK?
Well, the title is partially right. The math is ugly. I’ll bet the author also thinks that slowing the growth rate of government equals making it smaller. By the presented math the Russians have had a net loss of approx 12000 AFV,, not an increase. Sure they pulled 13000 out of storage. Those vehicles already existed; they don’t represent a net increase. Also ,massive glossing over of the operational worth of these vehicles, many of which are early model T-62s and BMPs. They’ve started pulling some T-55s if what you hear is to be believed.
I’m not dismissing the West’s inexplicable decision the not increase production of AFVs in the face of Russian and Chinese aggression. Maybe it’s a shift in doctrine, what with the rise of drones and all. It’s all above my pay grade. I’d be more interested in knowing those comparable numbers in the drone arena, than having an article with dubious math flopped in front of me which is closer to a propaganda piece than actual journalism .
The Krauts discovered the same sort of thing in the 1940s.
“Despite losing as many as 16,100 vehicles in action in Ukraine”
Neocon lies ! Russia stronk !
“Despite losing as many as 16,100 vehicles in action in Ukraine”
Neocon lies ! Russia stronk !
The article is an outright lie.
Continuous satellite surveillance keeps a close count on the dwindling supply of all Russian military vehicles.
The Russian military is down to sending very old Soviet era equipment to the fronts.
EU sent heavy manufacturing east to countries like China
Many desirable weapons [artillery shells, drones] are cheap enough that the US, EU and Ukraine could buy them COD.
Executive Summary:
A recent report from the Royal United Services Institute shows data on the production rates of Russian arms, including the manufacturing of BMP-3 armored vehicles from the Kurganmashzavod (KMZ) manufacturing company, the only producer of this vehicle.
Despite increasing employees, working hours, and machine tools, there is no evidence that the BMP-3 production rate changed in 2024, meaning Russia cannot sufficiently restock its army.
Russia’s long war and the continuing degradation of its economy are evident in the state of its military-industrial complex, which is increasingly unable to keep up with demand.
Then why are the Rooskies attacking on Chinese made motor bikes and Mad Max junkers?