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Russia revived “previously unrecoverable” engines to restore 5,100 Cold War tanks (euromaidanpress.com)

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 26 points 3 days ago

The upside:

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.