It has lost 2,500 tanks and at best can produce 200 tanks a year.” He added: “Last year it fired 10 million artillery shells but at best can produce 1 million shells a year. The actual number of Russian tank losses in Ukraine is a Kremlin military secret, as is Russian industry’s capacity to replace them.īut the latest data on Russian tank numbers roughly tally with recent comments made by the UK’s Chief of the Defense Staff, Tony Radakin, earlier this week who told the British parliament that Moscow “has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army.” Meanwhile, there are no reliable sources for the numbers of new tanks built by Russia, nor how many they have brought out of storage.

The figures should be treated with a degree of caution – the numbers from Oryx likely underestimate losses on both sides as they only use independently-confirmed information, usually open-source photographs of a destroyed or captured Russian tank, to register a loss.Ī destroyed Russian tank is photographed in the town of Svyatogirsk, Donetsk region on March 1.

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