Med rost, gnissel och svartrök kanske Ryssland kan utöka kriget?
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Rysslands vapenförråd stora nog för att utöka kriget
Ryssland lider stora vapenförluster och har på grund av sanktionerna problem att tillverka nya vapen – men kan ha tillräckligt med gamla vapen för att utöka kriget i Ukraina. Det slår Center for Strategic and International Studies fast i en ny rapport enligt CNN.
CSIS bedömer att Ryssland förlorat 10 000 enheter av nyckelutrustning såsom stridsvagnar, artilleri och drönare.
”Sanktioner och exportkontroller är inte en universallösning som kommer tvinga Ryssland att avsluta kriget.”
https://omni.se/t/striderna/6b897e27-8556-4869-9b7b-a1398b2d5707
Citat:
Battlefield losses and Western sanctions have left the Russian military in a state of decline, but Moscow will still have enough firepower to extend the war in Ukraine, according to a new independent analysis.
The report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies gives stark numbers of Russian military losses – almost 10,000 units of key equipment such as tanks, trucks, artillery pieces and aerial drones, according to one estimate.
But it also says Russia can dip into Cold War-era and older stocks on the front lines to make up in numbers what it may have lost in technology.
“The quality of the Russian military in terms of advanced equipment will likely decline, at least over the near term,” the CSIS report says.
It notes how Russian losses of main battle tanks, especially modern ones, have been severe.
“Moscow is estimated to have lost anywhere from 1,845 to 3,511 tanks one year into the war,” the CSIS report says, with losses of its newer, upgraded T-72B3 main battle tank, first delivered in 2013, noted as especially damaging.
The Netherlands-based open source intelligence website Oryx says it has visual evidence of more than 500 variants of T-72B3 destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured as of this week.
Western officials, speaking during a briefing Tuesday, also noted the pressure on the Russian tank fleet.
“They’re going backwards in terms of equipment,” the officials said of Russian armor, noting that T-55 tanks, introduced in 1948, are now turning up on the battlefield.
The CSIS report highlights the problem Russia faces in new tank construction, citing Russian media reports.
One tank plant, UralVagonZavod, can make about 20 tanks a month. But Russia loses, on average, almost 150 tanks of all types in Ukraine each month, it says.
And then there’s the lack of modern hardware.
The CSIS report says Moscow has to refurbish and put its decades-old tanks back into action because it just doesn’t have the resources to build new ones, with Western sanctions leaving it unable to source parts and tools needed to put together a modern tank.
Mer att läsa här:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/19/europe/russia-weapons-production-report-intl-hnk-ml/index.html (ibland betalvägg)
