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 ...
In 2015, Axe obtained a leaked testing report written by a pilot that recounted how the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the tester was flying was unable to outmaneuver an F-16 fighter it was facing off against in a simulated dogfight, the report circulated widely in defense publications and mainstream media outlets. The story has since been proven to be a misrepresentation of the facts with Axe’s claims disproven on the first page of the test report.
He’s a self-styled ‘military correspondent’ and graphic novelist, blogger.
So, I’m an old fart and not up on these new tricks and memes (e.g., grey rocking). Is that like ignoring people who can substantively refute what you say/do? Or is it like some sort of Binkey? (a baby pacifier). Or both? :0)
--- "As to Denys I find his to be credible, rarely do I see any hyperbolic claims, and often he criticizes Ukrainian politicians, as well as shows Russian gains when they are there..."
I don't find any of the prognostications of "winning" or "losing" credible, for any of the many sides participating in this geopolitical struggle. I didn't argue my waiting for the end to this event is "correct." It is merely waiting. Tick tock.
Your "bias" for certain reporting is evident, in the above words. Yeh, team.
If the rus are able to replace their weapons than the kill numbers aren’t that significant. this war is not good for tanks on either side.
however if the ukes are able to knock rus aircraft out of the sky at will—and kill rus air superiority—that’s the real deal.
I know it was a typo. I couldn’t pass it up!
At least you know we read your posts carefully...
Wonderfu!
I’m late... chat later :)
Grey rocking is what us old pharts do when we listen to the music of our youth...
And by:
It’s a retreat into irrelevant ‘shoulda, coulda, woulda’ IMO.
Guess your Russian military is still failing, huh<
Yes, things are looking great up in British Columbia this morning.
Any foreign invaders pouring into your country by the millions that you have to pay for?
Is the Canadian National Debt out of control?
Is inflation soaring in Canada?
Why don't you keep your nose in your own country's business instead of working to bring our country to her knees?
Speaking of military, when are you going to hop on a plane to Kiev, pick up a rifle and fight for your globohomo hero?
A “SCRAPPERS” dream
Welcome back Baba! We missed you.
Sniffing out all those little girly restrooms took a lot longer than you thought, huh?
Over 65 and chasing 18 year olds.... Ah, how Epstein-esque.
>Over 65 and chasing 18 year olds.... Ah, how Epstein-esque.<
Try 14 year olds. This came from his own mouth.
A sicko.
Mommy offers her reasons for meditating on the rocks in this post:
Update from Ukraine | One of the Worst days for the Ruzzian Army | All Failed | Crazy Tactics
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UMCRevMom@aol.com to BroJoeK
“There are a lot of people here posting crazy, insulting & offensive comments which would get their posts deleted and them zotted in many other contexts.
Just use the “grey rock method”
Main strategy of the grey rock method to deal with abusive trolls that:
• intentionally humiliate someone in front of others
• call them names
• deliberately make a person feel worthless or unsafe
• attempt to control another person’s behavior
• attempt to isolate them in forum
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Yep. I find that I don’t regret the things I’ve done, but what I didn’t.
I’m sure you saw this.
But to anyone who hasn’t, it’s extremely interesting. It’s less than 3 and a half minutes long.
RFK Jr.: Who Really Profits from The Ukraine War?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD6kvDHbIYY&ab_channel=RobertF.KennedyJr.
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