All language subtitles for 25-03-23trfdrde

About the so-called "infinite"
tank potential of the Russian army.

As I cover the subject of tanks in the
Russian army, I periodically encounter

the opinion that Russia's tank
potential is practically infinite.

And it seems that this is not unreasonable.

For example, there is information in open sources
about the number of tanks in storage in Russia.

Only these types of tanks in storage in Russia
are more than 13 thousand! But there is a nuance.

The fact is that a tank that has been in storage
for a long time, especially one that is kept in

conditions, to say the least, unsatisfactory,
is not always possible to restore to the level

of combat capability. And Russia has far more
such tanks than can be put back into service.

According to preliminary estimates, the
potential to return the tanks from storage

through restoration of their serviceability is
up to 2,900 tanks. The rest are scrap and donors.

But something else is much more interesting,
namely that now there are videos with echelons

of T-54/55 tanks being taken out
of storage in Khabarovsk Krai.

This raises the corresponding question - what is
the purpose and reason behind this happening?e

If you have 2,900 tanks of different types,
why would you take up plant resources and spend

man-hours restoring a tank that was accepted for
service in 1946, when you could simply pull a T-72

or T-80 out of mothballs? Isn't it because
the actual storage situation is much worse?

I'd say it's more like armor graveyards than
proper storage conditions for the most part.

Furthermore, the problem extends beyond that.
The fact is that the restoration timeframe for

T-72 and T-80 tanks is much more arduous
than that of T-62 tanks (because of their

basic design) and T-90 tanks (primarily due
to their relative modernity). Consequently,

it is faster to return the latter two to
service than the fickle T-80s and the T-72s.

Thus Russia now has far fewer
tanks which can be returned to

serviceability after withdrawal from
storage. There is not enough resource

to restore the relatively modern tanks,
hence the focus is on the older models.

And it is for this reason that the dusky
"genius" of the Russian Military-industrial

complex has to pull out T-54 and T-55 tanks
to make up for the lack of tanks in the

combat zone, because Russia's restoration
capabilities are much worse than imagined.

In my line of work I have to look through a lot of
information, including enemy propaganda resources.

Yet, they fail to mention that the Russian
military had to withdraw from a number of

positions as the Ukrainians bombarded them
with artillery fire so heavily that it was

no longer tenable to maintain positions on the
Zaporizhzhia front due to the incurred losses.

They are silent about the fact that for several
days there is a check on the readiness of combat

units, because the leadership is not confident
that the defenses will not fall on the first day.

Why are they silent about the fact that
the number of equipment and personnel

supply has significantly decreased
several times compared to the winter?

Why the silence about the fact that instead
of "offensive on Orikhiv or Hulyaipole"

they are already thinking "where to
retreat: to Mariupol or to Crimea"?

They are silent about the buses
that are already reserved for

evacuation in Genichesk, which borders Crimea.

Why not a word about the column
of damaged equipment in Crimea,

which the enemy will not be able to restore
before the counterattack by the AFU forces?

And in general, where are
all the victory materials?

It seems that everything is quite sad
for the propagandists in recent weeks.

There are a lot of questions, but for
some reason I did not find any answers.

But I found another scare story about a nuclear
strike if the Ukrainian counteroffensive moves

to Crimea. And even a version that these ancient
T-55 tanks were created to fight in a nuclear war.

This will be what "red line" in the account,

which will pass the Ukrainian side ?
And it will cross it, no doubt about it.