![]() ![]() The Russians have lost potentially two-thirds of the T-72s that are in active service or in recoverable storage. ![]() Perhaps a couple thousand.īut even after adding some very old Urals to T-72 survey, a stark conclusion is unavoidable. The big variable, acknowledged, is that their production data might not include the very first T-72 model, the crude T-72 “Ural.” It’s unclear how many Urals the Uralvagonzavod factory in Sverdlovsk Oblast may have produced then stored. That’s how they arrived at the much lower number of war-reserve T-72s. started with the number of T-72 hulls that Soviet industry produced in a 23-year production run between 19-18,000-and started subtracting tanks the Soviets and Russians either lost in combat, abandoned abroad or exported to foreign customers. “And many of them are probably not in good shape,” they pointed out. Double-checking their numbers on Tuesday, realized that, in fact, the Russians probably only have 1,500, not 6,900, old T-72s in storage. The problem, for the Kremlin, is that February count was off. But per earlier count, the Russians had 6,900 old T-72s in storage, around a third of which might’ve been recoverable after decades of corrosive exposure to rain, snow and cycles of hot and cold.
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