Two contracts at separate Russian plants brought back engines once written off, completing the restoration of Cold War-vintage tanks the Kremlin had given up on.
The strategic frame, in Jompy’s closing assessment: “The loss of the vast Soviet legacy stockpiles means the capability to quickly regenerate after high attritional warfare won’t be there anymore for Russia, and they’ll have to change their approach to mechanized warfare.” Russia is committing the recoverable end of its Cold War inheritance to this one war. There will not be another.
That sucks
The upside:
Yeah, but modern Russian tanks break down a lot, these ate going to be a nightmare. Plus the armor is so old munitions probably slice through them.
Plus diesel is a problem all over Russia now.
Still better for Ukraine if they weren’t there.
Do the newer tanks run on something else than diesel, or did you just mean that fuel is a general problem?
I meant that Ukraine is decimating Russian oil production.
I feel like I read somewhere that modern tanks run on jet fuel?
AFAIK only Abrams do.
And some T-80s
Really? That’s interesting, I just
lookup upchecked wikipedia and indeed they can use it. TIL.I thought jet fuel and diesel are similar.
I dunno really. Abrams have a turbine engine that is optimized for jet fuel but can run on “most” fuels.
Most tanks have a diesel piston engine.