![]() But the Russians have written off three-quarters of them-and a recent recount by one independent analyst seems to confirm that there are as few as 500 T-72s in recoverable storage. The Ukrainians have destroyed or captured at least 40.Ī year ago, there were around 2,000 fairly modern diesel T-72B3s or similar T-72 variants in Russian service. Uralvagonzavod has built around 600 of the 50-ton, diesel-powered tanks. The problem, for the 1st GTA, is that there aren’t very many T-90s left. So when the 1st GTA suffered devastating equipment losses in back-to-back battlefield defeats-first around Kyiv in the spring of 2022 and then around Kharkiv six months later-the army only could reequip with older tank types. There’s no money or manpower to make T-14s, and there are no parts, either. ![]() The two factories together can refurbish an estimated 50 old tanks a month. ![]() Today Russia’s two tank factories-Uralvagonzavod and also Omsktransmash in Omsk Oblast-are struggling to produce more than 20 new T-72B3 and T-90M tanks a month while also restoring old, stored T-72s as well as equally aged T-80s and even older stored T-62s. And that was before the Russian army lost as many as 2,000 tanks in Ukraine. After February 2022, a big T-14 run became an industrial fantasy. Before February 2022, the T-14 was unlikely to enter mass production.
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