Russia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat losses
Dmytro Shumlianskyi | March 30, 2025 | 18:17
Russia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat lossesBased on an analysis of satellite images of storage bases and repair plants, the researchers concluded that the rate of Russian tank restoration has dropped by 3.5-4 times compared to 2022. This is no longer enough to compensate for losses on the battlefield.
Researchers from the Resurgam and Vishun_military platforms reported on this.
According to the researchers’ estimates, as of February 2025, 2069 tanks of various types were withdrawn from Russian open storage bases. Up to 2000 tanks were still in closed storage hangars and were the first to be recommissioned. The lack of new activity near the hangars on satellite imagery confirms this.
In total, between 2022 and 2025, Russia decommissioned more than 4,000 tanks that were in the best technical condition. This is estimated to be 54% of all vehicles suitable for restoration. This has led to a significant slowdown in the pace of withdrawal from bases. While in 2022-2023, thousands of units were removed annually, only 342 tanks were removed from storage between February 2024 and February 2025.
As of the beginning of 2025, 3,463 tanks remain at the main storage bases. This indicates the exhaustion of easily restorable vehicles, as factories need more and more time to repair them. Another 1,253 tanks are stored at armored vehicle plants. At the same time, the number of tanks in the plants’ sumps has begun to decline, indicating that the rate of depreservation of vehicles at storage bases has fallen below the rate of repair of depreserved vehicles.
According to the researchers, even though there are still about 4,700 tanks in storage, most of them will be difficult to restore due to their poor technical condition. . . .
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