The factories do not save: the Armed Forces Park of the Russian Federation will only be reduced - The Economist

During the Second World War, Germany destroyed Soviet tanks at a phenomenal speed, they write in the publication. During the fighting, 80,000 tanks were destroyed, but the USSR industry allowed to complete the war with more tanks than at the beginning of hostilities. However, modern tanks are much more complex and more expensive, so they are used in much less. As a result of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, as well as the Soviet Union, she lost a lot of tanks.

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, more than 3250 tanks were destroyed. The Oryx blog recorded the destruction of more than 1700 losses, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies believes that the Russian Federation has lost about half of the T-72 tanks park-this is the basis of armored troops. It is claimed that Russian tanks do not give preference to the Russian Federation for the offensive against the Armed Forces.

They are not able to have a large -scale offensive without sufficient armor support. Ukraine has received the main combat tanks of Western partners in recent weeks. The publication notes that Soviet factories produced more than 1000 tanks a month in the 1940s. It is much more difficult to do this. Tanks use many devices, such as night vision, ballistic computers and a number of others. This makes tanks more threatening weapons, but reduces production speed.

Only one tank plant remained in the Russian Federation-Uralvagonzavod, which was built in the 1930s. Due to huge debts, the modernization of the enterprise is complicated. For a month, the plant is capable of producing only 20 tanks, the need for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is 10 times higher, the source reported. Therefore, in the Russian Federation began to shoot older tanks-T-72B, T-62 and others.

The T-72B is equipped with dynamic protection, digital connection and other gun, which does everything evenly as capable as newer versions. Three factories are restored from storage - 8 "Uralvagonzavod" for a month and 17 more companies. Russia loses about 150 tanks every month, if you take the Oryx data, and together with all capacity can only produce and restore only 90 cars. It is difficult to increase production through sanctions.

In the Russian Federation, they even began to use chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in military equipment. At the same time, the publication states that in the West and Ukraine the situation is not the best. Kharkiv armored plant is destroyed. In the US, they are able to produce 15 tanks per month, and in other countries in the West the situation is as or worse. Therefore, Ukraine is more conveyed by Soviet machines than Western.