Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "How Long Does Russia Have Left? Number of Tanks, Each Type, and Their Decline This Year" video.

Well, at least in terms of replacing their tank losses they haven't yet realized how hard it'll be to launch new production line in case they'll need more tanks after all possible restorations and refurbishments are done. Hint: it's not the same as turning T-90A into T-90AM and claiming that it's newly produced T-90M. And that's if we're optimistic and trusting about info on T-90 production not being connected to modernization of T-72B to T-72BU standard. It sure as heck would help explain how Russia is missing several thousand tanks that it supposedly has in active service. I would have been a bit more worried if we would have started seeing something along the lines of TR-85 Binozul or TO-120 or ZTZ-80 being introduced on T-55/62 production base to allow Russia to field truly expendable "people's tanks"😅
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Well, at least in terms of replacing their tank losses they haven't yet realized how hard it'll be to launch new production line in case they'll need more tanks after all possible restorations and refurbishments are done. Hint: it's not the same as turning T-90A into T-90AM and claiming that it's newly produced T-90M. And that's if we're optimistic and trusting about info on T-90 production not being connected to modernization of T-72B to T-72BU standard. It sure as heck would help explain how Russia is missing several thousand tanks that it supposedly has in active service. I would have been a bit more worried if we would have started seeing something along the lines of TR-85 Binozul or TO-120 or ZTZ-80 being introduced on T-55/62 production base to allow Russia to field truly expendable "people's tanks"😅
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@chad_8313 dear 2014 profile, look up how long it took to train crew even for simplistic by modern standards T-34 at the peak of WWII. Now increase that by order of magnitude due to all complicated equipment of modern tanks and the fact that they're likewise an order of magnitude harder to replace in terms of pure human capital. Now go try to sell your bs to someone else. Ебанько, твой слив засчитан. Совсем на своих диванах зажрались, теперь каждый подпивкович считает, что сможет водить и обслуживать Т-72 в боевых условиях. Иди играй в свое "есть попадание".
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 @neowuwei7851 you do realize that it's november 2023 now and that march 2022 was far further away the 6 months? No? Were you in coma, comrade?
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@jamesgornall5731 mostly yes. Though a lot of tanks were lost back in 2014-2015. But here comes the difference - Ukraine was restoring all available tanks and training crews since said 2014, for 8 years. And you can see that number pop up a lot, for example in mentions of numbers of trained infantrymen with combat experience. Ukraine had put several rotation of conscripts through "low intensity" conflict on border with occupied territories. That's the reason they held to begin with, they were preparing for Russia to try the second time. Sadly preparing not as competently as they should have goven the size of the opponent, but given the circumstances, it's hard to blame them. The other point worth mentioning is how Russia and all other operators of soviet equipment use them differently. You might have heard about why non-russian T-72 suffer ammo explosions less frequently - they leave ammo only in autoloader as Morozov himself intended. 22 rounds out of maximum capacity of 48, less then a half(numbers from my memory, if I recall right those are for T-80). Russian officers don't want to deal with logistics and organize the supply truck delivery of extra ammo so they load tanks with ammo to the brim. So any penetration is a guaranteed turret flip. It was that way in Chechnya, it was that way in Georgia, in Syria and in Ukraine. Crews KNOW that they shouldn't do it for their own safety, but officers apparently don't care about crews ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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