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The war in Ukraine demilitarized russia's military potential not for decades, but forever.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported on January 20, 2022 that the share of modern

weapons in the Russian troops is 71%!

But after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we saw that the Russian army consisted mostly

of old Soviet equipment that had been modernized, but not entirely new, modern equipment.

By late spring, this potential had already been exhausted, and T-62 tanks, not produced

since 1975, began to appear in the combat zone, and now D-1 howitzers from the World

War II era are in use.

The production of new and truly modern equipment in Russia is technically and technologically

impossible, and every year this situation has been getting worse and worse.

It was obvious that Russia was very bad with tanks, to take them as an example.

Tanks are something that Russia has always been so proud of and always seemed to have

even more than enough of, but in fact it does not.

And it is this trigger that will help best describe how deep the overall crisis in the

Russian military-industrial complex is.

Since 2011 Russia has not produced a single new tank.

Not a single one.

But every year the Russian command reports on deliveries of brand new tanks to the troops.

Where did the Russian Defense Ministry report new tanks every year if they were not new,

but upgraded tanks?

Exactly, the old Soviet models were taken and underwent some kind of modernization,

and sometimes one and the same tank was modernized several times.

According to various sources as of February 23, 2022 there were from 2,800 to 3,300 combat-ready

tanks of various modifications in the Russian troops.

In the last three years alone, the Russian Army has received more than 850 tanks, i.e.,

more than a third of its 2022 capability.

But at the same time, the average number of combat-ready tanks in the Russian forces was

the same from year to year.

And all because there was a banal cycle of technology.

It was the modernization of tanks that had been in service for a long time or had been

removed from preservation, rather than the production of new ones.

But on paper, it was the production of modern equipment, prototypes that were always proudly

shown to Putin at parades in Moscow.

But in fact about 90% of all funds were stolen.

At the same time there was no really important modernization.

For example, not a single piece of equipment with active defense systems was involved in

combat operations in Ukraine.

Barbecue on the tower of the tank - this is modern Russian technology, strict and cheap,

but not working.

Russia has already been set back in terms of rebuilding its combat capability not by

decades...

It has been set back forever.

It is not even capable of resuming tank production, especially in the numbers it will need to

restore lost capabilities.

Meanwhile, the process of demilitarization of Russia is still continuing, worsening its

situation further.