Russia has a stock of tanks and combat vehicles only by mid -2025 - Forbes

According to the observers, Russia loses more armored vehicles annually on the battlefield than it is able to produce. Therefore, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fill the losses of equipment from long -term storage. After two years of war in Ukraine, Russia is fully mobilized in political, industrial and military. However, this mobilization depletes resources that Moscow cannot restore.

In particular, with regard to armored vehicles, by mid -2025, old tanks and combat vehicles in Russian warehouses will not remain. Such forecasts were announced in the material of the American edition forbes. The authors of the publication have marked three factors that affect the military situation in Ukraine. The first of them is the mobilization of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, against which there is a depletion of old reserves of weapons.

The second is the efforts of Ukraine, which still rests with foreign assistance to meet urgent financial and military needs. Finally, the third factor is the predominant Russian tactics of the Armed Forces, which enables Ukrainian defenders to resist more Russian formation. As a result, in defense, Ukrainian troops reflect most enemy attacks, causing catastrophic losses to Russian assault groups.

"In 26 months of fierce battles, Russian military lost 15,300 tanks, combat vehicles, howitzers and other weapons, as well as hundreds of thousands of servicemen. The loss of Ukrainian military by one third," - say the observers. The material also provides figures of manufactured military equipment in the Russian Federation. It is noted that annually the Russian industry produces up to 600 new tanks and possibly a little more than 1000 new combat vehicles.

At the same time, the Russian military lose more than 1000 tanks and about 2,000 combat vehicles every year, and the rate of losses increases. Thus, a break was formed, which the leadership of the Armed Forces Fills with technique from long-term storage-these are tanks and fighting machines of the 70's, and in some cases even the 60s or 50s of the last century. "They are built during the Soviet Union's industrial flowering, they cannot be replaced by new ones.

The prognosis for the Russians indicate that by mid -2025, old tanks and combat vehicles in warehouses will not remain," the observers emphasized. In conclusion, they write that most often such equipment can not provide proper protection for Russian soldiers, so it is not important, even if about 400,000 Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine, if they are absolutely not protected on the battlefield.