• Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Ukraine needs to be supplied greatly in tanks from the west in response.

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    4 months ago

    700 useable tanks with an expected loss rate that in at least a year and a half the Russians will have tank problems. It seems far in the future but it’s less than half of how long it’s been.

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      4 months ago

      So how much would this impact their combat effectiveness? You mostly hear about cruise missiles and guys being marched into drones in the one-the-ground reporting, although obviously armoured stuff happens.

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      4 months ago

      Why would russia be deploying so many T-64, T-62 and even T-55 tanks if they had “cold war era bunkers full” of better tanks?

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        4 months ago

        The video did touch on that. Most of the older tanks had less electronics and simpler engines so they were far easier to bring back into combat condition. Combat efficiency is different however…

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          4 months ago

          Even with Chinese chips, I don’t expect they’ll get much better at fixing modern tanks, though, so that’s somewhat mitigated unless they get direct help from a less incompetent party. (I haven’t watched the video yet)