txags92 said:
Eliminatus said:
Teslag said:
MouthBQ98 said:
Can Russia really sustain losing 2 dozen armored vehicles and artillery units and 2 dozen trucks and transport vehicles every day to gain little to no ground?
They can't build them that fast under sanctions and eventually this will mean their other defense forces on other borders are dangerously depleted.
Well some would say Russia is building 200 T-90's per month. Which is ridiculous on its face, even without the obvious issue of finding competent trained crews to man that many per month.
The best I was able to surmise myself from digging all over, was ~100 MBTs a month from a mix of new production and rehauling of stockpiled units. This was a few months ago though and was just my own looking around at multiple sources of differing biases. So who really knows.
How many of those were modern T80/T-90 and how many were T-72/T-62s being marginally upgraded?
I don't believe they're upgrading anything. At this point they're pulling T-55s out of the junk yard to use as self propelled artillery pieces because they don't have any other options. And it appears what front line equipment they have is either sitting in Russia or is lost pretty darn quickly upon entering the theater like the scattered T-90s we've seen. It's everything they've got to cannibalize equipment in storage to get some operational and in action.
There was some before and afters floating around not long ago of satellite images of their tank and heavy equipment storage yards around Russia. The kind of places that they stick things they never intend to use and much is parted out and sold to support mistresses and weekend apartments by middle commanders. Most were a shell of what they were previously. It's why they're starting to bring in armements from the rest of the axis of evil. It's most likely a dip your toe in moment to see if any of it can be relied upon because they know they may soon need to buy heavy equipment in addition to artillery pieces, shells, drones, and cruise missiles.
Some of the long term impacts of this special military operation are going to change how the military equipment market works. Instead of buying export models of Russian tanks, Africa and the middle east may be buying Chinese, North Korean, or Indian equipment because pretty soon Russia won't have much to sell.
