Two contracts at separate Russian plants brought back engines once written off, completing the restoration of Cold War-vintage tanks the Kremlin had given up on.
The strategic frame, in Jompy’s closing assessment: “The loss of the vast Soviet legacy stockpiles means the capability to quickly regenerate after high attritional warfare won’t be there anymore for Russia, and they’ll have to change their approach to mechanized warfare.” Russia is committing the recoverable end of its Cold War inheritance to this one war. There will not be another.
The upside: