The Russian Federation reactivated up to 40% of its tank reserves – ISW

Russian reports on tank “production” in recent years mostly reflect restored and modernized vehicles taken from storage, analysts said.

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The aggressor nation Russia has removed from 25% to 40% of its strategic tank reserves, depending on the model, from open-air storage facilities. This is stated in a report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), released yesterday.

Thus, Dara Massicot, a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assessed that Russia likely removed the best equipment from the strategic reserve, while the “worst” and “unusable” equipment was still stored in warehouses.

Massicot estimates that “Russia’s inventory balance will decrease over the next few years” if Russia maintains its current pace of operations.

ISW noted that it could not independently verify the report. But analysts emphasized that reports of Russian tank “production” in recent years largely reflect refurbished and modernized tanks taken from storage, rather than new production.

These estimates suggest that the Russian military is primarily using stockpiled equipment to support combat operations rather than compensating for battlefield losses with new production. Russia may face a shortage of equipment in the next few years if the current rate of losses remains the same or accelerates, and the current level of production of new vehicles in the Russian Federation remains unchanged, the report said.

Earlier, in one of the preliminary reports, ISW wrote that the Russian defense industry could produce 100 tanks per month.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the beginning of a large-scale war, Russia has lost more than 6,700 tanks. In just one day on March 9, 19 Russian tanks were destroyed.

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