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Forbes is very inaccurate. Probably relying on Russian propaganda. Russia loses a minimum of 10 per day which is 3600 per year

Russia will use up its stocks of old tanks and combat vehicles by mid-2025 — Forbes.

“Russian industry produces 500 or 600 new tanks and maybe a little more than a thousand new fighting vehicles every year. The Russian military loses more than a thousand tanks and close to 2,000 fighting vehicles every year—and the loss rate is increasing,” the article states.

They added that "there’s a gap — one the Kremlin fills by pulling out of long-term storage tanks and fighting vehicles dating back to the 1970s, or even the ’60s or ’50s in some cases. But these old vehicles are a finite resource. Built during the Soviet Union’s industrial heyday, they cannot be replaced with new production."

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