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  1. Especially if the vehicles have been poorly maintained. Which is clearly the case for many Russian military vehicles.
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  2.  @Tinylittledansonman  I'm guessing the lack of thermal vision on Russian tanks (even though most of their upgrade packages over the last 30 years claim to have it) is a mix of limited budget (especially in the 90s and 2000s), and corruption sapping what's left of the budget away from what's actually needed. And as for the poor troop performance, you have conscripts who seem poorly-trained and unmotivated. IIRC, Russia law says that conscripts during their 2-year period of duty aren't used in operations outside of Russia. They're supposed to be solely defensive units. Russian law being at best a casual suggestion to Putin and his staff, they're being set into a foreign war anyway. (In fact, some rumors suggest the generals haven't told Putin about including the conscripts in the invasion force, because that would be a sign that things were going poorly.) Some of them apparently didn't even know they were being sent to war, particularly against fellow Slavs, until the invasion was actually launched.
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