Originally Posted by
NutLoose
By using up their older tanks, bar the fuel issues, I can understand the reliability issues, mind you it wouldn’t surprise me if the newer ones were poor quality too.
It’s almost as if the believed this will be a walk over, let’s use or older kit, that way if we burn through it, it does not matter, we will win on the cheap,
I am so glad they underestimated the opposition, it reminds me of the Israelis on the Golan heights, out gunned and out numbered they realised the command tanks had extra aerials to receive and transmit so killed those first, the rest was easier.
All the tanks captured or destroyed were modernised and in pretty good nick.
The idea that there are thousands of tanks in reserve is standard Russian Potemkin strategy. During the collapse of the Soviet Union there was more theft and corruption than even todays crooked ways.
in one instance a general sold a trainlioad of steel pipes for scrap. They were tank barrels.