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Are they running out of tanks?
According to some calculations (but it's obviously crazy complicated) a) they should already have ran out b) they are about to run out c) they have 12.000 tanks still from the URSS (seems like propaganda or ill informed people).
In October Russia had 3500 or so good conditioned tanks in storage. Then obviously the tanks in active service, which should be a similar number. So very roughly 7000 tanks total and they lost 6000. Obviously the also make new ones, but only 200 or so per year. So they are slowly running out of tanks. However the real limitation seems to be that they are unable to repair good conditioned modern tanks in high numbers, so they might run out sooner.
So numbers are going down, but they are not out of tanks and it probably will take a year for them to really start to feel the losses.