Russia now has much fewer tanks that can be returned to combat capability after being removed from storage.

There is a lack of resources to restore modern tanks, so the Russians are concentrating on old models.

Military and political commentator Oleksandr Kovalenko wrote about this on his Telegram channel.

He noted that a number of "experts" claim that Russia's tank potential is practically infinite.

And it seems that this is not unreasonable, because in open sources there is the following data on the number of tanks in storage in the Russian Federation: T-62 – 2,500, T-72 – 8,000, T-80 – 3,000, T-90 – 200. That is

However, Kovalenko noted that it 

that has been in storage for a long time to the level of combat capability, especially if the conditions were unsatisfactory.

The observer assured that there are many more such tanks in the Russian Federation than those that can be returned to work.

"That is,

. The rest are scrap and donors," the expert noted.

Moreover, Kovalenko believes that the real situation with the storage of tanks in the Russian Federation is much worse.

This is evidenced by the fact that

there .

The Russians are undertaking to restore these tanks instead of the more modern T-72 or T-80.

"The fact is that the T-72 and T-80 tanks have a much more time-consuming recovery period than the T-62 (due to the simplicity of the design) and the T-90 (primarily due to their relative novelty). Therefore, it is faster to return them to service, than the T-72 and the very capricious T-80," the observer explained.

"Thus,

. There is not enough resource for restoration of modern tanks, so they concentrate on old models," Kovalenko noted.

He added that this is why "the gloomy "genius" of the Russian military-industrial complex is forced to pull out the T-54/55 from the dusty cellars" to compensate for the lack of tanks in the combat zone.

The possibilities of recovery in Russia are much worse than one could imagine.

It will be recalled that earlier a group of investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team reported that Russia began sending T-54/55 tanks, produced immediately after the Second World War, to the war against Ukraine.

This may indicate a lack of armored vehicles in the Russian army.

Note that the Oryx monitoring group reported in early February that Russia had lost at least 1,000 tanks since the start of the full-scale invasion.

This can make up half of the entire pre-war reserve of the state.

At the same time, as of March 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces provides statistics on 3,557 destroyed Russian tanks.

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