General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: The reserve for modernizing old equipment has been exhausted, but there is no money for new ones
Considered the best Ukrainian tank, the Oplot, which was created on the basis of the Soviet T-80UD, is available in the Ukrainian Armed Forces only in a single copy.
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Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces for Logistics, Yuri Tolochny, spoke about this in an interview with the Defense-Industrial Courier agency.
“In general, the reserve of equipment is still large, but all this equipment is outdated, and the potential for modernization is almost exhausted. Some upgrade options fail in real combat. For example, the T-64BM Bulat tanks, due to their heavy weight and weak engine, turned out to be ineffective, were transferred to reserve, and were replaced by linear T-64s,” the general said.
According to him, the state actually does not have the ability to purchase, and the industry does not have the ability to produce new armored vehicles.
“There are other problems here. BM "Oplot", for example, is available in the Armed Forces in a single copy - in the Kharkov Institute of Tank Forces. So the question is the state’s ability to purchase and the industry’s ability to mass produce new machines,” Tochny concluded.
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