Posted on 01/14/2024 3:02:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russia could run out of infantry fighting vehicles in two or three years, if a recent assessment is accurate. It might run out of tanks around the same time.
According to one count, the Russian armed forces went to war in Ukraine in February 2022 with 2,987 tanks. After 23 months of hard fighting, the Russians have lost at least 2,619 tanks that independent analysts can confirm.
That’s 1,725 destroyed, 145 damaged, 205 abandoned and 544 captured T-55s, T-62s, T-72s, T-80s and T-90s.
If the Kremlin didn’t have options for replacing war losses, the Russian military would be down to just 368 tanks: far too few to defend against Ukraine’s own armor corps, which between pre-war tanks, restored tanks and donated tanks—minus losses—might number around a thousand vehicles.
But the Kremlin does have sources of replacement tanks: the Uralvagonzavod factory in southern Russia, which manufactures new T-90Ms, plus four other facilities that repair and modernize old tanks that have been moldering in storage. Some for decades.
The big question—one that no outside analyst definitively has answered—is how many tanks Uralvagonzavod can build, and how tanks the other plants can repair.
The Kremlin claims it received 1,500 new and modernized tanks following an intensive industrial effort that roughly tripled vehicle-generation in 2023. If that’s true—a big if—it would be reasonable to assume the Russian armed forces received around 500 new and modernized tanks in 2022.
Three thousand pre-war tanks minus 2,600 wartime losses plus 2,000 replacement tanks equals 2,400 tanks. As the Russian military added new formations in the 23 months since widening the war, so each field army, division, brigade and regiment would have fewer tanks than it would have had before 2022.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
>I guess it’s a thing on these threads now to post pictures of rocks.
I always try to be a good sport. Here’s some.<
I feel REALLY, REALLY, REALLY kind and REALLY, REALLY, REALLY peaceful after meditating on your pic of a load of rocks.
The more rocks the better.
Thank you Allegra!
>I see that it looks like she was given a warning though, since she doesn’t use the same subject line and stupid flag at the top of each of her propaganda posts anymore.<
Yes, she was warned twice by the owner and operator of this site:
To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Respectfully, this is America. Christian America. Our history does not include ‘GLory’ to anyone other than to God. All Glory to God.
Less propaganda would be appreciated.
43 posted on 12/2/2023, 11:36:05 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
As I said, less propaganda would be appreciated.
48 posted on 12/2/2023, 9:50:52 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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PS...Check your Private Mail. Something is coming your way soon.
Are those rocks your creations?
>Please tell me why, considerate one, you just HAD to post who Allegra shared a PICTURE of some rocks with? What made it important for you to do that? Putting their FR IDs - all of them so your UKR Zeeper Zealots know who to condemn and call America-haters? What is that, then if nothing, but an attempt to control others’ thoughts and minds in childish ‘doxxing’ attempts. You Zeepers do it all the time.<
Yep, they use intimidation tactics to try and silence the opposition.
Just like antifa, BLM, DNC, hammas, commies, et al.
No....linked from the web.
Your answer is nonsense, lady. I gave you two prime examples how the ‘method’ (as you cite) mirrors leftist victimology and you post another stupid link.
Your whole dumb little rock meme schtick is nothing but deflection and detraction to comments and questions about your whole Save Ukraine propaganda process cloaked in the arms of religion and Youtube links. You should be ashamed of yourself
I see you had to use an electron microscope for magnification purposes.
You are most welcome my friend.
Is it possible that the great land hungrydictator Putin could be lying??? Engaging in wishful thinking???
The figure in the 700s for Russian loses aren’t nearly as stunning as those from just before Christmas when they were running from 1,000 to 1,200 a day for a few weeks.
Thank you for not making homoerotic comments.
“Thank you for not making homoerotic comments.”
Comments individuals post are self-revealing of their character.
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A massive blackout has enveloped almost the entire Crimean peninsula plunging russian forces key to the war effort into darkness, and shutting off vital heating for the time being.
Ukraine may be strategically targeting the Russians in Crimea for a series of attacks meant to weaken the southern front. Belarussian forces are moving into Russia for “training purposes.”
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Protests have broken out in the Republic of Bashkortostan over the arrest and sentencing of a local environmental activist by the name of Fail Alsynov. Cities across Russia continue to experience utility failures as heating pipes continue to burst in the cold weather leaving millions of Russian civilians without head in the dead of winter.
Senate Republicans have promised to start debating and then vote on a combined border security and military aid package to Ukraine next week and Speaker Johnson is already saying he will not schedule a vote on it.
One of the comments from that YT video that makes sense here:
“@stevejones4618 3 hours ago
Another popular theory is the fact that the guys that would normally just about keep all these ancient Russian municipal systems going have all been sent to the front for compost.”
Meaning the outage may have nothing to do with any action by Ukraine. It might just be a plain old ordinary breakdown due to neglect or negligence.
Reminiscent of leftists' "soft bigotry of lowered expectations," IMO.
A man is needed to protect a woman from harsh or critical words now? [assuming you're a man]. What about the equality of expectations for women vs men?
The US typically will export only weapons systems with lower block development levels than it currently uses for its own purposes.
Tank Corps....
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