Military keeps buying tanks10/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The CSIS report highlights the problem Russia faces in new tank construction, citing Russian media reports. “They’re going backwards in terms of equipment,” the officials said of Russian armor, noting that T-55 tanks, introduced in 1948, are now turning up on the battlefield. Western officials, speaking during a briefing Tuesday, also noted the pressure on the Russian tank fleet. The Netherlands-based open source intelligence website Oryx says it has visual evidence of more than 500 variants of T-72B3 destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured as of this week. “Moscow is estimated to have lost anywhere from 1,845 to 3,511 tanks one year into the war,” the CSIS report says, with losses of its newer, upgraded T-72B3 main battle tank, first delivered in 2013, noted as especially damaging. A captured Russian T-72B3 tank awaits repairs on February 13, 2023, at a warehouse in eastern Ukraine. ![]()
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