Posted on 02/09/2023 11:34:47 PM PST by familyop
"Russia started the war with around 3,000 operational tanks ... so there is a good chance that Russia has lost one half of (its) usable tanks," said Jakub Janovsky, a military analyst who contributes to the Oryx blog...Last February, prior to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Janovsky estimated that Moscow had a reserve supply of approximately 4,000 military-grade tanks. However, many of the tanks "were not properly stored and might be hard to reactivate quickly," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Is there another kind? "Recreational" tanks, maybe?!
Look, I'm as happy as the next red-blooded American that the military might of Putin's Russia is being devastated, but...
Regards,
As opposed to scrap metal I suppose.
Yeah, I get what the author was trying to say.
Regards,
Yes, recreational tanks, ancient tanks (earlier Soviet tanks), tanks for displays, farm tanks, tanks for ornamental planters, imaginary tanks,... Russians have been making some funny claims about the numbers of their heavy tanks.
Sometime during the past few weeks, I read that Russia is trying to get about 200 of their latest T90 series tanks to Ukraine.
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Most of the rest are scrapped for parts
This article is a rewrite of a CNN article. The “military grade tanks” is from the Newsmax writer, not Janovsky.
A better term might be “militarily serviceable.” Russia has long had the practice of keeping older models of tanks and other military equipment on the books in storage. Yet this often amounts to unprepared storage in the open with little in the way of security. The result is the tanks deteriorate badly, with seals and wiring becoming brittle, oil going sour and congealing, rust accumulating, and parts like optics being stolen.
There are sightings of the T90S, an export model, in Ukraine recently.
There have been T90’s in Ukraine from the beginning, in small numbers. The latest ones, T90M, have also been seen and a couple captured near Izyum in September.
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I find it ‘very interesting’ how the Western Media is rolling out stories to deflect from the impending Liberation of Bakhmut, which will be the biggest Russian victory of the war (so far).
So this 1500 number of tanks Vlad is going to put in the fight is their entire tank force?
“There is a good chance”
“Might be hard”
Well, that settles it!
I’m sure the 1,000 tanks that were not operational have been made so and new ones are being manufactured.
Gotta love all this great socialist globalist propaganda. It was great when they said the Russkies were running out of ammo and Putin was about to get coup’ed out of office!
Now they are running out tanks....FAST!!!! LOL!
The Russkies are losing while Zelenksy yells, “Help! I’m winning!”
No matter how much the Russkies are trying to lose this war, they keep accidentally winning by taking more and more land.
The biggest Russian victory of the War was the taking of Kherson - by far. In order down the rest of the list, IMHO,
- taking Mariupol
- Izyum
- Melitopol
- Lyman
- Severodonetsk.
I’m considering the strategic, operational, logistic, economic values of these conquests.
Russia certainly has won victories. It’s not kept some of them.
I’m guessing the Russians have many fewer immediately available tanks than they did at the start, and far lower in average quality. They have been drawing down their “active” stocks, even from distant garrisons, cutting into their rainy day reserve, and pulling the best runners out of long term storage. Also making a few new tanks and overhauling old ones.
They had a lot of tanks.
It may well be the “best of the rest” at this point.
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