Tank losses this month are higher then most months of 2023. That picked up a lot in October of 2023, which was the peak and then started to slowly drop. So this can just mean massive human wave attacks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Tank losses this month are higher then most months of 2023

Are you sure? because that's not how I remember it, as I recall numbers were generally close to 20 per day last year.
The average for the war according to these numbers is 9120 tanks /940 days = 9.7 tanks per day.
So considering this is one of the highest casualty numbers of the war, the tank number is relatively small.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

OK, I'm surprised to see the numbers are so much higher in 2024 than 2023, it was apparently only by the end of 2023 the numbers were very high, still compared to being one of the highest numbers of casualties, the number of tanks today is relatively low, as it is below average.
And the number of tanks is on a clearly downwards trajectory since a year ago. October ending as possibly the 2nd lowest this year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good to see y'all showed up with receipts, I only have enough mental bandwidth for hunches right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

their cold war vehicle park is slowly (and in case of specific models quickly) running low. perun made a great video about it, using data from Covert Cabal and @highmarsed, who used private satellite providers to shoot photos of russian military bases and painstakingly counted the stored vehicles.

@Gradually_[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Perun does do great videos. The Canada one he just did stings a bit though. All truth though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Right, but about the turn from 2023 to 2024 tank numbers dropped a lot. Generally it was thought that russia ran out of tanks in storage that can quickly be reactivated. Of course they still have a lot, but the running out of tanks in storage forced hard decisions about how to use tanks. In turn that made the tanks lost number go way down this year, but since they have a lot of tanks they can use them more and sometimes they will lose more than they can make.