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They already did it in 2022, and there is only enough left to somehow secure the borders.
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devices that need to be manufactured, which delays the tank's modernization process. However, it shows that the Russians are trying to solve the problems with the W-46 engines, which I have written about more than once.
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namely the 2A46M-5, which is not manufactured in the DPRK, from where Russia imports most of its missiles. In addition, this modernization has a 9K119M Refleks-M missile guidance system and an improved 1130 hp V-92S2F engine with an automatic transmission,
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This gives food for thought about the ratio of tanks being repaired to those being produced in Russia. In addition, the material is strictly propaganda, because the Russians have recently rarely modernized the T-72 to the T-72B3M version, because this version requires a new type of ammunition,
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The film shows about 10 tanks, of which I noticed only one manufactured from scratch, the T-90M, the rest are modernized versions of the Soviet tank from the T-72 family, which was removed from storage.
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Storm Map has drawn the place where the Ukrainian soldiers were attacked and it turned out to be the eastern outskirts of Tyotkino. Who could have expected in February 2022 that after three years of war, Russia would not be able to protect its territory???
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According to German law, if the Chancellor does not receive an absolute majority of votes in three rounds of voting, a fourth round is held, in which a relative majority is sufficient." Now they are silent, which means they are probably not satisfied...
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AfD Alice Weidel has already demanded his resignation and that new elections be held."
Kotenok: "Unfortunately, this does not formally prevent a Russophobe and grandson of a Nazi from taking office.
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And what do the Russians say about this? After the first vote, they triumphed, Radow: "Merz decided to withdraw from the second round of voting in the election of the German Chancellor in the Bundestag, which will take place on May 6.
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I don't understand, you have to explain it more precisely....
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Only Deep State, all (!!!) the rest are completely unbelievable.
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I have never done this, but this time I will ask those willing to share this thread, because it is a very important topic for Europeans who think that Ukraine will defend our security until the end of the world, and we do not have to do anything anymore.
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the prism of money, they see the threat and try to prepare for it, and as you can see, the threat of starting WW3 in a few years is really real. Therefore, it would be good not to mock the words of the Finnish officer, but to take them really seriously.
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Moreover, with the loss of 2/3 of financial reserves, inflation at 16.5% and interest rates at 21%, it is difficult to afford to continue investing for several years in an industry that does not bring any profits, only losses. However, let us remember that the military does not look through
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Of course, the capabilities of the defense industry are not everything, because money is still needed for this. As we all know, Rus gas and oil exports have collapsed (especially with the price of Urals below $50 per barrel), and the budget deficit had to be tripled in April bsky.app/profile/madr...
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This is where statements such as the one by the Finnish military officer quoted at the beginning of the thread, or intelligence chiefs of other Western countries, come from, that Russia will be able to achieve such military potential by 2030 to be able to attack NATO countries.
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As you can see, the actions of the Russians form a logical whole, and despite watching videos of Russian infantry attacks in Bukhankas, Russia remains a militarily strong country that is capable of producing 2-3 thousand T-90M tanks within 5 years, which can pose a real threat to NATO countries.
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sending mainly infantry and civilianvehicles into combat, whose goal is to constantly put pressure on the AFU, to exhaust Ukraine and thus capitulate it. That is why the number of assault actions is currently the same as in the fall of last year, but Russian field gains are several times smaller.
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And thirdly, this is related to a change in Russian tactics, after last year's huge losses, Russian command understood that it was not able to lose such large amounts of military equipment to gain several hundred square kilometers. So now they are trying to save this equipment as much as possible,
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but the problem is slowly emerging, what to do with them after the end of the war. bsky.app/profile/madr...
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Secondly, civilian cars and motorcycles are much cheaper, and the Russians have huge amounts of this type of equipment stored. The lives of their soldiers, of whom they have a constant supply, are also worth little to the Russians,
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Firstly, the Russians still have over 2,500 T-62, T-72 and T-80 tanks, which can support offensive actions.
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the Russians could see for themselves in the autumn of 2022 in the Kharkiv region.
At this point, the question arises, wouldn't it be better to at least partially use this reserve now, instead of sending infantry in civilian vehicles to the assault?
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So it is quite possible that the Russians are stockpiling these tanks, creating a reserve from them, which will be ready for use. Having such a reserve is always necessary if the AFU manages to break through the front. And what are the consequences of its absence,
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So what do Rus. do with these tanks, do they actually not send them to the front, only stockpile them in Russia, as the Finnish officer claims? Oryx showed that in 2025 only 11 T-90M were destroyed or damaged. Also, Richard Vereker's graph shows that the Russians do not lose too many of these MBTs.
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will be replaced by T-90M production lines and then it may turn out that Russia is able to produce, for example, 500 T-90M tanks per year, this cannot be ruled out.
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So it is currently very likely that Russia still produces about 300 T-90M per year, and remember that after modernizing all the stocks, the Russians will be able to rely only on production, so the lines that are currently modernizing T-72 and T-80
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This year, Russia has clearly reduced the number of tanks sent to the front, but this is not due to a decrease in their production capacity, but to the shrinking of stock (I am attaching the thread), while production probably remained at last year's level. bsky.app/profile/madr...
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per month last year, of which 15-20% were new production, then even taking into account that Ukraine and Russia often overestimate the production capacity of the Russian industry, the number of 300 T-90M tanks produced by Russia per year seems quite credible.
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When it comes to tanks, we are only talking about the T-90M, the latest versions of the T-72B3 and the T-80BVM are modernized stock, because Russian production lines are not adapted to their production.In any case, please calculate that if Russia was able to send 200 tanks to the front from the BTRZ
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was able to produce and modernize about 200 tanks per month. Of course, these were mainly repairs of post-Soviet stockpiles, but Ukrainian sources (Mashovets and Kowalenko) and many Russian sources reported that almost 15-20% of the armored equipment sent to the front was new production.
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Despite this, they were able to maintain a constant number of MBTs on the front line, I do not want to refer here to how many of these tanks there were, because the numbers range from 2,500-3,500 pieces, but these numbers were given throughout the previous year, so we can assume that Russia
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However, while conducting offensive operations, they lost an average of about 200 tanks per month. bsky.app/profile/madr...
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Throughout 2024, a major Russian offensive was underway, thanks to which the RuAF captured: Marinka, Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Novogrodivka, Wuhledar, Selydove and Kurahove, as well as several dozen villages.
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This is certainly propaganda aimed at forcing European societies to invest in the defense industry. Unfortunately, I have to disappoint people who think this way, this officer is right, but explaining this requires a broader context, which I will allow myself to include in this thread.
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Of course, there was general hilarity on the web (especially on "X"), how can a country that sends infantry on motorcycles, in Bukhankas, Zhiguli and Buggy's, possibly supported by T-55 or T-62, produce and store 300 modern T-90M tanks per year?
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Może, nie znam tego Pana
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Exactly 👍
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Exactly 👍
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Not quite, T-72B3 obr 2022 are not produced at all, only modernized, and for 1.5 years in very small quantities, because the Russians have huge problems with the W-46 engines, I wrote about it many times. As for the T-90M, I fully agree.
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Exactly, for a few days now I've been preparing a fairly extensive thread in which I'd like to explain that Russia still has significant military potential, but for now it's not fully using it, and why that is. It won't be a very popular thread, but I don't think anyone here will call me an idiot.
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That is why showing that Russia is running out of tanks is very nice to read and makes the number of followers grow.
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Simply on "X" it is not knowledge that counts but the number of followers you have. And for followers it is important to receive information quickly, especially good information.
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meaning that the storage bases should be left with useless scrap. In that case, where would Russia get 70 of these MBTs from now??? Well...
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100 T-62s left in storage in good condition and about 300 in poor condition, meaning that most of them were suitable for assembling a single copy from several (maybe a dozen or so). During one year, the Russians lost about 200 T-62s of various types,