Will Russia run out of tanks?
Someday for sure, but not in 2023 - and that's what this thread is about.
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Russian losses in technology are overwhelming at first glance, in real terms irretrievably around:
1900 tanks
3200 BMP/WP/TO
800 OTHERS
In total, the whole "technique" from tanks to armored vehicles RUS irretrievably lost about 6000 pieces.
Knockout?
Unfortunately not.
First of all, RUS had a gigantic hardware potential. Tanks as an example:
"3+3+3"
3300 tanks in line
3000 machines that can be mobilized in a year and 3000 machines that can be "recovered" with a sufficiently large and long mobilization process.
At the same time, it is important to emphasize that there are more tanks in Russia - even several thousand, but the vehicles above the above-mentioned 9000 machines in total are already a certain "black number" whose real value is impossible to estimate.
The loss of about 2000 tanks is severe (2/3 out of 3300 full-time machines) but it is "only" 1/3 of what the Russians are able to mobilize in a year. Surprise? I already explain why not. In Russia, up to a certain point, the production data of tanks/BMPs and repair plants were open.
ON THE ROOM:
UVZ (eli Uralvagonzavod eli Nizhny Tagilin tehdas) up to 200 to 300 machines per year
Kurganmash - as above (BMP only)
Omsk as a repair shop - 62 T-80BVM per year, etc.
And there are also 5 regional repair plants which become factories after mobilization.
They renovated from 80 to 180 pieces of technique. Yes, during peacetime RUS had the ability to produce/renovate from 860 to 1500 pieces of technology.
Below, an information board of one of the five regional plants with "production" (cars repaired with mileage reset) -
(HUOM: otsikon käännös: VOLUME OF PRODUCTS BY YEAR - alla olevan kuvan alkuperäinen lähde A. Khlopotov blogim julkaisu 6.8.2015
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ONE of the repair and repair plants in Russia (БТРЗ № 61) only in 2015 renovated 188 T-72 and T-80 tanks... And these are not modernized cars, but overhauled (major repairs))
How much are RUS able to repair on a war footing? In theory, the minimum is DOUBLE in relation to peacetime. Estimated from 1600 to 3000 pieces of technology. Currently, the Russians say that in one of the mobilized repair plants they will release 230-260 units per year, e.g. T-62M
Propaganda because it is openly stated? Not necessarily - it is completely convergent, e.g. with the known duplicated peacetime values of district repair facilities. And they have five working units, plus 3 large factories that survived the USSR.
So will the RUS complement themselves with a light hand in two years of losses?
Neither - fortunately, the repairs of the Armed Forces in Russia in the previous decade were made with the use of components from the mobilization states
As a result, in some RUS groups they have terrifying deficiencies: hence, for example, we see the "new" T-62M and T-90M, but with vehicles with 2A46 guns have problems. In turn, they have a lot of W46 engines, but problems with the W84MS, etc.
Redevelopments in Russian with a margin of 5% are now hiccuping. Therefore, RUS will not get the maximum capacity to mobilize the industry.
BUT you should be aware that without major problems, a year after the holiday mobilization of the industry, they will implement a little more than 2000 pieces of "techniques", i.e. tanks, IFVs, TOs, KTOs, AHSs, etc. So 1/3 of the losses they have already suffered. And because they intensively buy missing components in the countries to which they exported SPW.
We can expect an improvement, not a deterioration, of the RUS mobilization capacity of the industry.
So where will the bottlenecks of the Russians be?
- senior officers
- artillery ammunition
- communication in the attack
- battlefield aviation,
etc.
But it will certainly not be "lack of technology".