Not long ago, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) informed that the Russian defense industry (military-industrial complex) is able to roll off the assembly line about 100 new main battle tanks per month, and the rest goes to war with Ukraine from the “reserves.”
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The fact that after analyzing satellite images, we can conclude that the terrorist state has removed from storage from 25 to 40 percent of its strategic tank reserves, writes NBN, referring to Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
According to Dara Massicot, a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, the aggressor country appears to have withdrawn its best armored vehicles from its strategic reserve. , and left the “worst” and “unsuitable for use” in the warehouses.
In accordance with Massikot’s assessment, the remnants of the above-described reserves of the Russian Federation should dry up over the next few years, provided , that Putin’s army will maintain the current pace of operations in Ukraine, that is, it will continue to suffer colossal losses.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War emphasized reports regarding the “production” of tanks in the Russian Federation during the last years, mainly reflects the dynamics of the restoration and modernization of armored vehicles taken from storage facilities, and is not at all a new production cycle.
Earlier we wrote about what ISW explained , for for what reason the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation cannot withdraw the remaining ships from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk.