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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia's largest tank manufacturer may have run out of parts
Sanctions imposed on Russia to cripple its economy may be starting to hurt its military capabilities.
The countrys primary armored vehicle manufacturer appears to have run out of parts to make and repair tanks, according to a Facebook post by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Citing available information, it reported state-owned company Uralvagonzavod, which builds tanks such as the T-72B3, has had to temporarily cease production in Nizhny Tagil.
In addition to Uralvagonzavod, one of the largest tank manufacturers in the world with reportedly 30,000 employees last year, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant has also run out of foreign-made parts.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-largest-tank-manufacturer-may-132623968.html
Tough luck Pooty Poot.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,287 posts)well before the actual invasion. Perhaps stock piling critical components required to support a protracted invasion. Guess not.
Ray Bruns
(4,074 posts)Martin68
(22,765 posts)Hitler too. Now Russia is learning it.
FSogol
(45,446 posts)wear to the victory parade.
Roc2020
(1,613 posts)this would be over by now and the world would go back to Batman Sports Taiwan and Covid talk. Not so.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Botany
(70,447 posts)I have read news reports that the Russian forces in Ukraine are very low on food and fuel too.
BTW hard to say what I have been reading, seeing, and hearing is right but it looks like the Russian
troops on the ground in Ukraine are being chewed up. How long will the Russian people, the FSB,
and the rich put up with Putin? I just read that he fired 1,000 people who work around him and
replaced them with new people. I wonder if any of those people have family and friends in or from
Ukraine.
calguy
(5,292 posts)It's no wonder they don't have the ability to plan ahead for the losses they didn't plan on having.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,287 posts)of Potemkin-nizing the Russian military and their domestic economy. If nothing else, this criminal invasion of Ukraine has exposed just how weak and anemic the State of Russia really is today.
bluewater
(5,376 posts)Has that actually been verified by any US government source though?
doc03
(35,295 posts)with a hand held missile.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,779 posts)Hollowed-out, corrupt, oligarch maggot fly-blown army you CREATED, not the one you want.
To adapt Rumsfelds point
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Famous parables and shit.
Brother Buzz
(36,375 posts)But a word of warning, they are tough negotiators
erronis
(15,181 posts)And body bags for the cremated remains of the occupants will not be necessary.
But vlad don't care. vlad is in charge. vlad will destroy anything and everything if he is allowed.