[Sacajaweau]

They have/had 2800 tanks and 10,000 tanks in storage and 8500 armored vehicles.

[DannyTN]

They have/had 2800 tanks and 10,000 tanks in storage and 8500 armored vehicles.

Those numbers are growing exponentially. By this time next year, the entire earth will be a parking lot for stored Russian tanks.

[snoringbear]

Wonder how many of those 10,000 are boneyard WWII vintage T-34’s?

[PIF]

10,000 tanks in storage and 8500 armored vehicles.

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They had ~2500 working tanks before they invaded. Of the 10,000 in storage number, most have been stored in open air without maintenance for decades, and many of those are missing parts from turrets to engines. It is very likely that the T-64s, now being brought to the front for assault guns, were in covered storage and maintained for training. So you can stop with the BS numbers.

How Many Tanks Does Russia Really Have? And Where Are They?
Includes a brief description of Orc military unit conventions and example of how one unit had several name changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhgVrKJJoA&t=619s

Later they may dig out some T-55s and still later drag the few remaining T-34s out for an airing.

[Rockingham]

The Russian idea of military storage is left in the open, not maintained, and not upgraded to current standards. In US and West European practice, that amounts to a military junkyard where obsolete hulks may be stripped for parts before being scrapped. It is the same in Russia, but with the pretense that the materiel in the junkyard is in storage.

As it is, even the supposedly frontline Russian weapons, tanks, IFVs, and other equipment from current inventory now being lost or expended in Ukraine are often in bad shape. Worse, such materiel is irreplaceable due to sanctions that deny spare parts, computer chips, optical sensors, and other essential components.

At best, Russia will win enough to declare a victory over Ukraine and a cease fire. But with Western sanctions mostly continuing, Russia will be unable to rebuild her military and will have to accept the strategic defeat of NATO being revitalized, expanded, and reequipped.

Within a few years at most, Putin will be gone and a rebuilt and Western armed Ukraine will demand a permanent peace settlement on her preferred terms from a weakened and militarily inferior Russia. That assumes Russia continues as a unitary state and does not in the meantime fracture or fall into civil war and simply yield up what it taken from Ukraine.