The Russian army lost more tanks in the Kharkiv region and the South than it can remove from storage
A video has appeared in the public domain, which indicates that the Russian army has begun to remove its T-90 tanks from storage, the deconservation is taking place, in particular, at the storage base in Perevalny, in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Apparently, this video was filmed specifically for the ‘internal’ Russian audience to show – ‘look, we still have a Wunderwaffe that can be sent to the front’. But there is one ‘but’.
Logic suggests that once the Orcs began to remove their rare T-90s from storage for deployment to the front, then they ran out of ‘reserves’ for the deconservation of T-80, T-72 and even archaic T-62 tanks. Although the T-62 is the most ‘suitable’ for the Russians to quickly cover losses received at the front, because it takes a maximum of 2 weeks to repair tanks of this type, while the T-90 or T-80 takes 1-2 months.
In turn, according to The Military Balance guidebook, by the end of 2021, the Russian army had only 350 T-90/T-90A tanks in service, and only 200 T-90 units in storage. If the Russians have started deconserving their two hundred T-90s, it means they have no other ‘free’ tanks that can be sent to ‘close holes’ on the front against the Armed Forces. Separately, it is worth adding – according to the conservative estimates of the authors of the Oryx portal, during the entire war against Ukraine, the Orks lost at least 21 tanks of the T-90A type, destroyed or taken as trophies.
In turn, if we compare the data on the losses of the Russian army in the last two weeks in the Kharkiv and Kherson directions, it turns out that the Russians lost almost 300 tanks during this period, of which 122 were in the South and 168 were in the Slobozhan region. And to cover these losses, the Russian army will not have enough even all the T-90s in storage.
Let’s hope that the Russian army will continue to lose more tanks in battles against the Armed Forces than it can remove from storage bases.
