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 ...
Look out!
Studda Bubba’s got her gacis in a knot.
LOL - I work closely with a guy from Pittsburgh. I actually got that without having to look it up. 😄
I wonder how Jim would feel about her twisting the words of his rules to her preferences and trying to boss people around with that?
>“Show me in my post to you where I even mentioned Jim Robinson’s name.”
Yet, you don’t understand?
Jim Robinson established the guidelines. Everyone’s compliance is expected!
Not at all as you proclaim:
“Oh, stop whining already. You sound like a pathetic lib.
If personal attacks weren’t thrown around like Frisbees, this wouldn’t be FR.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4210144/posts?page=167#167
I am done with the discussion your declarations & images.
Hope you have a good night. I have a full schedule so being in EST I must sleep now :D<
Wow mommy, thank you for sharing how important you are. I’m so impressed. You’re the only person on FR who has a “full schedule”.
Leaving because you’re tired or leaving because I keep hitting nerves?
BTW, No one, and I mean no one, gives a pigs’s patootie about your “full schedule”.
Sweet dreams, mommy.
>LOL - I work closely with a guy from Pittsburgh. I actually got that without having to look it up. 😄
I wonder how Jim would feel about her twisting the words of his rules to her preferences and trying to boss people around with that?<
I grew up in Cleveland and picked up some words in a few Slavic languages. Comes in handy doesn’t it?
Gaffer’s post 165 is the absolute truth. And you’re right. That’s what she does...tries to control people and push them around by twisting their words.
In other words: A BULLY.
Didn’t know what SBU meant, so I looked it up.
[I do not read these threads much, so you all might already know what it is, but...]:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/11/ukraine-sbu-traitors-russia-kharkiv/
I always try to be a good sport. Here’s some.
I like this idea. Let Mommy post a picture of one stupid useless gray rock as her emotional support pet rock and we’ll just post loads of pictures of concrete, aggregate, sandstone, limestone, granite, breccia, chert, meteorites (iron or stony will be fine), lava, etc.
Remind us how to simply and quickly add links again? I’ve always hated having to do that on FR because it’s still such a PITA, but I’ll be glad to look for some fun pictures of rocks and post them here to build our meme and gray rock brigade back as a protest to these stupid, stupid, stupid threads she keeps spamming us with.
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.
I wish that I could pick out a couple and markup zome crazy faces on them....
“I’m so impressed”
Good Morning,
You need not be impressed. But, I needed sleep :)
As Allegra shared with bimboeruption; kiryandil; JonPreston; Worldtraveler once upon a time; Rocco DiPippo; Gaffer
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4210144/posts?page=189#189
Please hopefully posting a image of a gray stone to remind Freepers to stop abusive comments and images will obviously bring peaceful forums and be appreciated by all [included the moderators and the Jim Robinson & Chris Robinson :D]
😄😆😂
As Mumsie points out in Post 194, the grey rock is a finger-wag. It’s symbolic of her attempt to control what others posts here.
I could say something about where that finger should be, but I won’t.
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.
All I can say is you guys are in for some serious disappointment when Biden finally decides he doesn’t need the UKR distraction from his abysmal handling of immigration and the economy here. I’d say that’s gonna be by November this year.
>Didn’t know what SBU meant, so I looked it up.
[I do not read these threads much, so you all might already know what it is, but...]:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/11/ukraine-sbu-traitors-russia-kharkiv/<
I knew that “SBU” is an abbreviation for a UKE enforcement agency, but now I know exactly what it is: Ukrainian State Security Service.
Thanks for the link.
Right you are. It is crystal clear that it comes from somewhere back the primordial part of a mixed up brain.
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