Russia's largest tank manufacturer may have run out of parts

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sanctions imposed on Russia to cripple its economy may be starting to hurt its military capabilities.

The country’s primary armored vehicle manufacturer appears to have run out of parts to make and repair tanks, according to a Facebook post by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Citing “available information,” it reported state-owned company Uralvagonzavod, which builds tanks such as the T-72B3, has had to temporarily cease production in Nizhny Tagil.

In addition to Uralvagonzavod, one of the largest tank manufacturers in the world with reportedly 30,000 employees last year, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant has also run out of foreign-made parts.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-largest-tank-manufacturer-may-132623968.html

Tough luck Pooty Poot.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. You'd have thought that Russia would have gamed out the supply chain problems

well before the actual invasion. Perhaps stock piling critical components required to support a protracted invasion. Guess not.

[Ray Bruns]

4. Old military maxim: Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics.

[Martin68]

15. Great maxim, Ray! So very true. Napoleon could have used that advice before he invaded Russia.

Hitler too. Now Russia is learning it.

[FSogol]

9. Supply chain? They thought Ukraine would fall in 48 hours. They were more concerned with what to

wear to the victory parade.

[Roc2020]

12. Exactly. Putin thought

this would be over by now and the world would go back to Batman Sports Taiwan and Covid talk. Not so.

[Flaleftist]

14. Perhaps the result of promoting people for loyalty over competence.

[Botany]

2. Hopefully their planes, missiles, drones, and ships will have the same problem.

I have read news reports that the Russian forces in Ukraine are very low on food and fuel too.

BTW hard to say what I have been reading, seeing, and hearing is right but it looks like the Russian
troops on the ground in Ukraine are being chewed up. How long will the Russian people, the FSB,
and the rich put up with Putin? I just read that he fired 1,000 people who work around him and
replaced them with new people. I wonder if any of those people have family and friends in or from
Ukraine.

[calguy]

3. Corruption drains off so much of the money appropriated for the military

It's no wonder they don't have the ability to plan ahead for the losses they didn't plan on having.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Putin and legalized corruption in Russia for decades have had the effect

of Potemkin-nizing the Russian military and their domestic economy. If nothing else, this criminal invasion of Ukraine has exposed just how weak and anemic the State of Russia really is today.

[bluewater]

6. lol Russia must have been very stupid to depend on vital military parts from foreign sources.

Has that actually been verified by any US government source though?

[doc03]

7. Tanks seem to be obsolite if you can destroy them

with a hand held missile.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

8. You fight with the

Hollowed-out, corrupt, oligarch maggot fly-blown army you CREATED, not the one you want.

To adapt Rumsfeld’s point

[Achilleaze]

10. Thus, for want of a common 2-cent pin, the war was lost

Famous parables and shit.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Ukrainian farmers have everything you need listed on eBay

But a word of warning, they are tough negotiators

?list=TLPQMjIwMzIwMjJPMex3-48HRg

[erronis]

13. From what I've seen of the remnants of russian tanks, repairs are not going to help.

And body bags for the cremated remains of the occupants will not be necessary.

But vlad don't care. vlad is in charge. vlad will destroy anything and everything if he is allowed.