Russia still has reserves of armored vehicles for another three years of war.
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This is discussed in the report of the British International Institute for Strategic Studies, Military Balance. It is published by Reuters.
According to their calculations, Russia lost more than 2,900 tanks during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 1 thousand 750 main battle tanks remain in service – from obsolete T-55 to modern T-80 and T-90, another 4 thousand are in storage. At the same time, Russia does not yet have the potential to intensify hostilities, analysts say.
Even after losing so many tanks – including about 1,120 over the past year – Russia still has about twice as many available for battle as Ukraine, according to the annual IISS Military Balance, a key research tool for defense analysts.
Henry Boyd, a senior fellow at the Defense Capabilities Institute, said Russia was about “break-even” on replacing what it lost. According to his estimates, over the past year it put into service about 1-1.5 thousand more tanks.
But of those, he said, more than 200 were newly built, and the vast majority were refurbished older models.
Moscow was able to trade quality for quantity…by removing thousands of old tanks from storage at a rate that could sometimes reach 90 tanks per month, the report said.
Russia’s stockpiles meant that Moscow “could potentially suffer about three more years of heavy losses and replenish reservoirs from stocks, even at a lower technical standard, regardless of its ability to produce new equipment.”
Source: Racurs
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