Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by mcv on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:02AM (#35422055)

Because they're old rust-buckets that are only good as supplies of replacement parts for the tanks that still work.

Have you seen that smoking aircraft carrier? Russian military equipment is often in a terrible state.

Of course they also have this brand new super tank, the T-14 Armata. No idea why they're not fielding that one, but I suspect it doesn't work.

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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by smcl on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:07AM (#35422096)

Yep I don’t believe the described enormous, modern tank fleet exists. T-14 exists and probably does work fine, it just doesn’t exist in sufficient numbers to matter.

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