Satellite Data Hints at Russia's Depleting Armor Stocks

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OSINT analyst Jonpy found that Russia only had 68 percent of its pre-war stock of armed fighting vehicles (AFVs) in storage.

Nearly a third of Russia's armored fighting vehicles in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine are no longer in storage, according to satellite imagery cited by an open-source intelligence analyst.

Among these, Russia faced the biggest losses of MT-LBs—a Soviet-era multi-purpose, amphibious, tracked armored fighting vehicle—with only 922 remaining compared with a pre-war supply of 2,527, according to the account.The OSINT analyst said Moscow has also faced high losses of BMDs—a Soviet airborne amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle, with only 244, or 38.3 percent of its pre-war stocks of 637 remaining.

 

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