Russia is sending museum pieces into war, but experts say they may still be effective
A cargo train loaded with tanks chugs along under the crisp, spring sun. “Wow,” a woman says, pointing her camera phone at the convoy. “This is the second train, there was one like it just before.” The video, seemingly filmed in late March, shows old Soviet tanks being transported, somewhere in Russia. Moscow has been known to bring out older military equipment from storage to help it prosecute the war in Ukraine, but these are different.
Beyond quantity, a big issue is the speed at which Russian armor is being taken down. “Overall Russia has lost a lot of equipment, it’s hard to build new equipment,” said Robert Lee, a former US Marine and senior fellow at the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. “They are producing some new tanks — they are still producing T-90s — but, at the scale , they need more equipment than they can produce so they’re relying on older and older tanks to compensate,” Lee added.
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