So why is Russia sending obsolete tanks out to the action? Seems they really are running out of weapons.
Why not bring out old tanks? If the positions they’re attacking don’t have any anti tank, why not put a T34 on them? Let the newer tanks with thermals and badass optics do the real work, while the old tanks clean up the rabble. Even an A7V would stomp the hell out of a rabble only armed with rifles.
If you got it, use it.
I would think they must be stretched thin for tanks at this point. I don’t know how many of these old tanks that the Russians made a point of saving are in restorable for combat condition. I imagine they are scrambling to find that out as well, cannibalizing many for parts as they do.