Author: Zhukov
Recently, two things about the Russian military have attracted widespread attention from the outside world. What is going on? The first thing is that a set of data leaked from a Russian military field hospital in Lugansk region . Recently, 893 Russian and other allied troops were rescued in the field hospital. Sixty percent of them were Russian officers and soldiers, and 40% were other Allied officers and soldiers. Due to the unprecedented brutality of the battlefield, 124 Russian and friendly troops died heroically due to excessive injuries after being sent to the hospital. In order to eliminate the Ukrainian fascists, many Russian and Russian allied officers and soldiers spilled their last drop of blood on the battlefield.
The chief executive of the Ukraine-controlled area Luhansk said that within more than 100 days after the war began, hundreds of clinics and hospitals in the Ukrainian-controlled area of Luhansk were bombed by the Russian army. Due to the intensity of the fighting, the hospitals in the Luhansk region can no longer meet the Russian army's field rescue needs. The Russian army can only send a large number of wounded people to its own field hospitals for treatment. However, due to the limited conditions of field hospitals, the fatality rate of Russian wounded soldiers is very high.
The second thing is that the Russian armored forces suffered heavy losses during the war. According to official statistics from Ukraine, more than 1,400 Russian tanks were destroyed by the Ukrainian army. This statistic is obviously an exaggeration. An American general believes that the Russian army has lost 30% of its armored forces. A third-party military magazine also estimated the Russian army's losses, believing that the Russian army lost nearly 800 tanks.
The Russian army currently has 120 battle groups of various types rushing to the front line. Based on an average of 12 tanks in a battalion battle group, the Russian army has more than 1,400 tanks fighting with the Russian army on the Ukrainian front line. If the Russian army lost more than 800 tanks according to estimates by third-party military magazines, then the Russian army has lost more than half of its tank strength in the Ukrainian battlefield. The Russian army has more than 2,600 tanks in active service, and the Russian army can also put more than 1,200 tanks from its own army into the Ukrainian battlefield. But will the Russian army bring all tanks to the battlefield? Obviously impossible.
Behind these two incidents are reflected two very important dangerous situations for the Russian army -
First, judging from the first thing, the Russian army has a relatively high battlefield mortality rate, with 124 wounded out of more than 890. Died in hospital. This shows that the Russian army’s field rescue capabilities are not satisfactory and cannot save the lives of more soldiers. But this is only second. There is another clue that is even more shocking and detrimental to the Russian army: many of the soldiers killed in the Russian army came from rural areas and towns, and these Russian soldiers from rural towns are one of the main labor forces in Russia.
What does this mean? The main members of the Russian army are the children of lower-class civilians in rural and urban areas. They do not have many social prospects so they choose to serve the country as soldiers. The pension for a fallen soldier in the Russian army reaches more than 12 million rubles , and his family members There is a monthly pension. The compensation amount for seriously injured Russian soldiers is 3.29 million rubles, and military families can receive monthly subsidies from the state. Even lightly wounded Russian soldiers can receive 3.07 million rubles. Such high incentives are extremely attractive to Russian soldiers from urban poor and rural areas, which makes Russian soldiers fight to the death regardless of their own safety.
However, the United States and Ukraine have their own ulterior motives - doesn't Russia have a small population? Then let the Russia-Ukraine war become a meat grinder that consumes Russia's strong labor force. The more troops the Russian army participates in the war, the greater the casualties of its young soldiers. Russia's domestic economic construction requires less and less labor force, which is very detrimental to Russia's long-term development. The United States intends to make the Russia-Ukraine war a quagmire for a long time, and its purpose is to bring down Russia's comprehensive national strength.
Secondly, Russia’s reserves cannot keep up with the losses.
According to estimates from third-party military magazines, the number of tanks currently lost by the Russian army is close to 800, which is already more than half of the more than 1,400 tanks that the Russian army participated in the war. How to solve this problem?
There are more than 1,200 tanks in active service in Russia, but these tanks must protect Russia's domestic security and cannot be moved.
Russia still has 20,000 tanks in stock that can be moved. The Russian army has pulled out operable tanks from the warehouse and rushed to the front line to join the battle.
But what is the performance of the tanks in the warehouse?
turns out to be mediocre in performance. The Russian army has currently pulled more than 310 T62 tanks from the warehouse and put them into the battlefield. The T62 tank is still at the level of mechanized warfare in terms of fire control and other combat capabilities. It is suitable for large-scale mechanized warfare during the Cold War period from the 1960s to the 1970s. Putting these T62s on the front line is undoubtedly a living target.
However, besides sending T62 tanks to the front line, does Russia have any other options? Isn’t Russia a military power? With its own tank industry, why doesn't Russia go all out to produce the latest HT90HT3 and HT80 tanks instead of pulling out its old Cold War tanks and sending them to the front line to participate in the war? What happened to Russia’s military industry? Putin and the Russian military have not yet responded to the question of why the Russian tank industry does not send active tanks to the front line to replenish battle losses.
This may mean that Russia's military industry is no longer able to produce a large number of tanks during wartime to supplement battle losses. The Russian army has been at war for more than 100 days and has lost nearly 800 tanks. However, within more than 100 days after the war began, the Russian military industry was unable to produce the same number of tanks to replenish frontline battle losses on a one-to-one basis. During the -Soviet-German War, the Soviet Union tightened its belt and produced more than 100,000 tanks and put them on the battlefield to supplement the battle losses. Even during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was producing tens of thousands of tanks every year. But now, the Russian military industry cannot produce 800 tanks within 100 days, and the decline of the Russian military industry seems to have become more serious.
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