Russia's Tank Production: The Truth

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About the production of T-72 tanks in russia...

I have been getting a lot of questions lately on how quickly russia can recover its losses in equipment, especially tanks, and how many new tanks it can produce. The question is very interesting indeed, though a bit incorrect.

The incorrectness of the question lies in the fact that there is virtually no production of new tanks in russia.

For example, the last production T-72 and T-80 were produced in Russia in 1998. The last production T-90 rolled off the assembly line in 2011. Since then there has been no serial production of tanks in russia.

All modern Russian tank production is fake. In most cases they are decommissioned/stored samples which are brought back to serviceable condition and upgraded. That is, the tank industry in Russia is now not a production line, but a repair line.

In turn this has led to degradation of production lines of the same T-72 tanks. In 25 years they as such have been disassembled, sawn up, broken down. For example, to produce the T-72 it is necessary to have 15 thousand technological processes working. Most of them are long gone.

To ensure production of the new T-72 tank 6.5 thousand moulds are needed. More than half of them are lost or remelted. The production of a single T-72 tank uses around 20,000 tools, some of which are not in production, the same Uralvagonzavod.

That is why when we see reports from the Russian Uralvagonzavod, we see only tank equipment that has been restored from storage, and not new equipment being created from scratch. And this all leads to the relevant conclusion - Russia will never be able to rebuild its potential.

Russia will not be able to produce new tanks for decades, and therefore will not be able to recover losses from the war in Ukraine with new products. By restoring T-54/55 and T-34 tanks? Yes. Never with new products. bastyon.com/lenovoedge?s=957368d6fa7a1cb84750e8e36a2457606136991328307e37616b90dae5e36017&ref=PLHSBnWJSuzm8qSxvwAtbHZLkLfUA3XZiZ

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