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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lol I saw what you did there, obviously the poster did not
Is that you wild? 🤪
Solid response, full of information that backs up your claim, maybe next time a good mom joke. That always wins debated /s. /s added for those here who can’t catch sarcasm
As I understand the T-90s was the export model, interestingly enough, s models have been seen and destroyed on the battle field showing that the moscovas need to use tanks built for export, not good for export revenue, and as some have suggested they are Indian models sent back for refurbish or upgrade and they had to use them for lack of stock
Don’t worry they are producing all they need /s ( that means sarcasm for those who can’t see it, lol)
Counter-sarcasm in English is subtle and lost on native Russians, even ones that are a fair English speakers.
You two should get a room.
Watched a very interesting interview about moscova mindset.
Best portrayed by babushka saying all Ukranians should be ******, and on a final note added that all Poles should be as well.
The historical fabrication that is russia, is center to their existence
ARTICLE- Apologies - Comment #38 Correction
The Russians Have Lost So Many Vehicles Around Krynky, They’ve Assigned A Tank Regiment To Fetch the Wrecks
David Axe
Forbes
Jan 13, 2024 6:10 p.m.EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/13/the-russians-have-lost-so-many-vehicles-around-krynky-theyve-assigned-a-tank-regiment-to-fetch-the-wrecks/?sh=5df5712d330c
In mid-2023 the Kremlin organized a new field army around the 70th Mechanized Division by combining three mechanized regiments—the 24th, 26th and 28th—with an artillery brigade and the 17th Tank Regiment.
A couple of months later in September, the new 18th Combined Arms Army deployed to the front line on the left bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast.
It was just in time to meet the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade as it motored across the Dnipro and secured a bridgehead in Krynky on the Russian-controlled left bank.
Now the 17th Regiment is responsible for retrieving the scores of vehicles the Russians have lost while trying, and failing, to dislodge the marines from Krynky.
“The 17th Tank Regiment of the 70th Motorized Rifle Division has been trying for two weeks to evacuate damaged and inoperable armored vehicles from the active combat zone in the Krynky area,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies noted, adding that the regiment is focusing its efforts north of the T2206 road, which threads east to west two miles south of Krynky.
-snip-
That a whole tank battalion with potentially tens of T-90 tanks apparently is dedicated to the recovery task speaks to the intensity of Russian losses around Krynky.
It is fascinating how the pro moskovians anti Ukraine folks dump on the Ukrainians for fighting for their country.
How dare they, don’t they know the moskovites are their brothers and love the “little Russians”?
“Wilderness conservative”. That name seems vaguely similar?
Humm
Russia = paper tiger.
Hey maybe Russia can make a bunch of those blow up tanks and skware us into submission.
Russia will never use their nukes, they are too afraid they will detonate on the launchpad.
Sun Tzu said nobody ever benefits from a long war. Except of course defense contractors.
CC
VIDEO
1. Combat footage of Bradley fighting vehicle and Russian T-90M tank worth $4.5 million
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
Jan 14, 2024 6:15 a.m. EST
1:04 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8_j41n0wqc
2. For first time Ukrainian army attacked Russian equipment with ground drones - images
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
Jan 14, 2024 7:15 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsT_4HgHGmU
3. “Our comrades are dead, wounded are left” - rebellion of “Kadyrovits” who were ambushed in Ukraine
Kanal13
1.18M subscribers
Jan 14, 2024 8:15 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pUf9T9DP2I
Denys probably got found out by Zelensky and hauled off to the meat grinder.
That was my first thought, as well, from recent articles. What other battlefield could best use these obsolete leviathans? They enjoy air superiority and can arrive over land.
If they do not hold up, it would not be better elsewhere.
VIDEO
Russian paratroopers, marines revolt, refuse to take part in assaults near Krynky
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
Jan 14, 2024 3:33 a.m. EST
1:17 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vq_xwOPFdw
Russian paratroopers and marines do not want to storm the positions of the Ukranian Army on the left bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region.
As Natalia Gumenyuk, the spokeswoman of the “South” Operational Command, said on the air of the national “United News” telethon, such frontal assaults held frequently without the support of armoured vehicles quite naturally lead to heavy losses.
“Now the number of “storm Z” type units has decreased in our direction, and there are more marines and paratroopers. And they consider themselves the elite and they do not want to take part in such storms,” said Gumenyuk.
She also noted that because of this the Russians have moral and psychological disorders in the units and various disputes.
“That is why there is a lot of discord in the leadership of the Dnepr group, which is now based there, regarding the general understanding of the further development of events,” Gumenyuk added.
The Krynky battle, along with Ukraine’s tenacious defense of Avdiivka, in the east, in recent months have cost Russian forces more equipment than they can spare—and have robbed the Russians of some, if not much, of the excess combat power they would need for a major breakthrough this winter.
Even if your forever lying western disinfo were true, it wouldn’t matter. They are building even more than your neocon wet dream sees them lose.
“Sergey Chemezov, the Head of the russian Rostec state arms corporation, announced that in 2023, the Russian defense industry increased tank production sevenfold, according to news media.
Based on these claims, russian military expert Viktor Murakhovsky calculated that the country’s defense industry supplied the russian army with a staggering 2,100 tanks of various types in 2023, ranging from T-54/55 and T-62 to the latest T-90M Proryv.”
The Ukes would lose a years worth of US production in a week if we had them to pi$$ away anymore.
“Today, ongoing contracts for the US Army and other clients have disclosed the new reality: the U.S. military industry’s production capabilities have narrowed down to 12 M1 Abrams tanks per month, or only up to 135 vehicles per year, as stated by Polish analysts in their media outlets.Nov 18, 2023”
That is probably closest to the truth.
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