#soviet weapons

Russia appears to be entering a new—and revealing—phase of its tank war: pulling what one OSINT researcher calls its last meaningful reserve of stored main battle tanks, the older T-72 “Ural” and T-72A, and funneling them toward overhaul lines that were built for a very different era of combat, according to OSINT researcher Jompy on February 26.

Russia may be running out of one of its most advanced Cold War–era tanks faster than previously believed, according to a new open-source intelligence investigation that suggests the once-formidable T-80 fleet is nearing the end of its lifecycle after years of heavy losses in Ukraine.