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.
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I retracted my original comment to you because you just keep posting others’ nonsense links about what the symbols mean and that you never answered my question about the circle-swastika symbol of the Azov Brigade. On notice. Do not post anymore to me about it. Rules are rules, mommy.
To clarify, I post links to share information.. not just an opinion I personally created. To me, just an opinion without support may be sweet & interesting, but now credible.
I have asked you not to blast out blather opines to me anymore on the meanings and symbolism of the symbols (at least the ones that fit your propaganda) a couple of times already. Why do you persist in violating those rules you so preciously and selectively interpret when they fit your goals and on others you just ignore and continue on? All the while never once even acknowledging there’s a question out there about the ‘symbol’ of the AZOV brigade and its resemblance to a swastika.
Just stop it. I don’t care about your belief of what is ‘credible’ out there.
I will not comment to you unless you direct a comment to me :)
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Kudos for the clarity of this view.
How many "new" wars have actually ended in wins? Iraq? Afghanistan? Libya? Sudan? Serbia-Kosovo? But throughout, those "rich liberal elites" have done quite well, while inflation eats away at a productive middle class.
Among Jim Robinson's requests of July 24, 2023:
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Likewise, things in the presidential primary are getting over-heated. We want to be sure we come out of this with a Republican president, house and senate. The only way we can accomplish that is to unify the Republican Party. We can't destroy our own candidates. Whoever it is will need to pull us ALL together. Keep the ultimate goal in sight - Freedom! We are not here to fight each other. We are here as allies to fight for God, family, country, and FREEDOM! As William Wallace said in Brave Heart, "Unite the clans!".
Absolutely correct. Thank you, and of course Mr. Robinson!
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We need to break the back of the schemers whose mission has become all about profit and divide and making us weaker instead of making our country stronger and better and free-er for all of its citizens.
Agreed. The various and pernicious attacks on some version of "Make America Great Again" as a general statement have been many and varied, aggressive and subtle. Many profit in ways, small and large, by adding to an already massive public debt, and so often wrapped in flags, but without putting America FIRST.
Therefore I shall simply repeat your phrase -- our country stronger and better and free-er for all of its citizens.
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