Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[Bofferbrauer2]

Farsala said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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Seems you edited with graphs mostly about Tanks. By armor I meant all possible vehicles that could be used offensively. I will add some images of my own.

Basically Russia's armor combat efficiency is essentially the same as 2022. Recently armor pushes were too wasteful, so they stopped using it so much, and maybe with terrain changes or a final push coinciding with a breakthrough they might use armor again.

Bolded: Absolutely not, though I can understand it looking that way at first glance until you think about it for more than a second.

Just think about it: The number of armored vehicles is almost the same... but the army is over twice as large as it was before the war, which means there's roughly half as many armored vehicles per brigade now. Hence why they don't do so many armor pushes anymore: they don't have many left, storage depots are empty now and they know they can't produce them fast enough to recover the losses on the battlefield, so they hold them back as much as they can. They have basically become too precious to use them in general assaults now for Russia.

Also, replacing the equipment with some from storage ain't exactly like-for-like exchange. There's a huge difference between a BTR-90 and a BTR-60, or a BMP-3 and a BMP-1, so combat efficiency certainly suffered, too. Plus with how long those were out withering away in the taiga, they can have small invisible or barely visible defects from rusting away so long, further limiting their efficiency.