Russia refurbishes outdated tanks to replace 3,000 lost in Ukraine, research center says

Russia has lost 3,000 tanks in Ukraine, but it has years' worth of older models in storage that it can refit for combat even as it produces new ones.

Even after the loss of so many tanks - including an estimated 1,120 in the past year - Russia still has about twice as many available for combat as Ukraine, according to the IISS's annual Military Balance, a key research tool for defense analysts.

Henry Boyd, the institute's senior fellow for military capability, said Russia had been roughly "breaking even" in terms of replacements. He estimated that it had put around 1,000 to 1,500 more tanks into service in the past year.