20% to their modernized tank fleet? We haven't seen anywhere near that even with the abundance of Ukrainian footage we've gotten and I've only seen T-84s and T-90s out in the field. Hardly modern and worthless against a modernized equivalent power. If anything, maintaining all of this old equipment has been too expensive for Russia in the first place and they should be focused on getting a much smaller but more effective force of T-14s.
Doubful then France want them either, they have their hands full with Corsica and other overseas territories.
Fine, then Russia can have them. It'll be a great way to smooth over relations with them, and nobody would care if they went full grozny on em.
Daily reminder that French Guiana exists.
Chechens are basically Russia's janissaries. I can't imagine a worse enemy to go up against if they have proper support.
Eh, they have their own fiefdom, kind of goes against the janissary concept. But I can appreciate the conceptualization.
Eeeeh. As guerillas they were quite rightly viewed as fearsome.
For urban warfare? Probably a decent amount, especially considering how the Chechen wars went.
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The T-14 is a joke. It’s dependent on Western electronics, has only had around 20 made and they broke down in parade conditions. The T-72B3M is arguably their most modern vehicle, essentially a cheaper version of the T-90A with better fire control and electronics, which again, are mostly western. They have maybe around 400 of them. Now the T-72B3 isn’t a bad tank, but they’re losing those too, along with lots of T-80’s, which probably can’t be replaced for decades due to damage to the Kharkiv factory complex where they were manufactured.
I don't care about any of the other stickers, but by God we need that one back.
Not to ACKSHULLY here. But yes. Really. A significant number of these Congresscritters really and honestly do give a fuck what celebrities think and litter their offices with photographs of themselves standing by said celebrities.
I mean I get wanting to be do pictures with celebs. But fucking Bono? No amount of power is worth that.
That explains why America is going down the tubes, your leaders are listening to fucking Bono. We kicked him out of Ireland for a reason you daft cunts!
You should have handed him over to the British during the troubles instead. Complete with all the IRA propaganda you could load him up with. They would have had a more permanent solution to his bs.
Song is kinda fire ngl.
They have lost a tank division's worth (100 or so) of the newest modernized T-72B3 (2016), T-80BVM, and T-90A. This is just what we know of. These are the ones with modern optics and range finding. These components are not the easiest things to replace and anything brought back into service will probably be done to the old T-72B3 (1989) or T-80BV/U standard. Shit, they were running around with T-72As and pre-89 Bs before combat losses.
They didn't have the money and resources to build Armata before the war. What makes you think they can do it now? Also, who says they maintained the old equipment? Chances are all of these tanks in reserve are rotted out pieces of shit needing an overhaul to be combat capable.
