The Russian-Ukrainian War Thread

[seaspear]

Re Russian tank production there have ben reports of employee layoffs of at least ten percent at UVZ the main Russian tank factory , how this effects production of tanks and railcars is anyone's guess , it could be that resources are better used elsewhere in this war

https://www.reuters.com/business/big-russian-tank-railcar-manufacturer-says-it-is-restructuring-cut-costs-2025-11-07/

https://defence-blog.com/russias-top-tank-maker-faces-deep-workforce-cuts/

The flagship of the Russian tank industry is on the verge of a personnel crisis

Russia's main tank manufacturer, Uralvagonzavod, has announced large-scale staff cuts — a blow to T-90M production and T-72B modernization

prm.ua

 

[Feanor]

Re Russian tank production there have ben reports of employee layoffs of at least ten percent at UVZ the main Russian tank factory , how this effects production of tanks and railcars is anyone's guess , it could be that resources are better used elsewhere in this war

https://www.reuters.com/business/big-russian-tank-railcar-manufacturer-says-it-is-restructuring-cut-costs-2025-11-07/

https://defence-blog.com/russias-top-tank-maker-faces-deep-workforce-cuts/

The flagship of the Russian tank industry is on the verge of a personnel crisis

Russia's main tank manufacturer, Uralvagonzavod, has announced large-scale staff cuts — a blow to T-90M production and T-72B modernization

prm.ua

I believe it's the civilian side of the business suffering.

Russian tank production has peaked at nearly 150 per month, while that of other armoured vehicles at 550 per month.

https://www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications/fis-import/eef51261-68bf-4883-b1e9-ed0fb74a92ed-Kiel_Report_no3.pdf

This can't be right. Maybe they're talking about new and pulled from storage combined.

I am still confused, the Red Army is an army based on conscription, "Approximately 75% of Russian land power is currently deployed to Ukraine". That means 5% each for Turkey, China, western Nato, Koenisberg and another 5% just... around? Those units, full of conscripts in training, everywhere in Russia add, how many men?

None of those estimates seem to be consistent and many treat conscript units as not being part of Russian deployable forces. There's some truth to this, but it leads to strange situations when a Russian forces less than half of the total gets claimed as the majority of Russia's fighting power. And of course the term "land power" is fungible. They might argue that the conscript units are worth that much less.