• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why would russia be deploying so many T-64, T-62 and even T-55 tanks if they had “cold war era bunkers full” of better tanks?

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      4 months ago

      The video did touch on that. Most of the older tanks had less electronics and simpler engines so they were far easier to bring back into combat condition. Combat efficiency is different however…

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        4 months ago

        Even with Chinese chips, I don’t expect they’ll get much better at fixing modern tanks, though, so that’s somewhat mitigated unless they get direct help from a less incompetent party. (I haven’t watched the video yet)