T-90 Main Battle Tank #2

20-25 monthly (annual 240-300) would have been the production rate for the past few years. Going to 3 shifts should allow it to raise to 50-60 per month once all is up and running properly.

The 10 plants that I mentioned prior should be capable of production rates of 300-375 new and rebuilt per month when going full.

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60 per month means 2 starts per day. That is unreasonably small.

You don't analyze the number.
That would be 720 a year, in this one sole factory.
Number unimaginable for the western MIC, all combined.
Nobody produces tanks in NATO anymore.
I guess that the last NATO made tanks were Polish PT-91M delivered to Malesia in 2010, with an overall atmosphere of scandal.
Everything after the date is a continuous loop of refurbishing, at a ridiculously slow rate.

Not at all.
KMW was in talks with METKA about "co-producing", but the whole story is to make some localization of Greece modernization program.
But the thing is not a deal yet.
We do the same in Poland.

"In response to WELT's question, KMW essentially confirmed the talks with METKA, but did not provide further details," the report added.

A terse statement from the Munich-based armaments group said only that "discussions concern the Leopard 1A5 and Leopard 2 while plans to produce the tanks steel hull are under discussion."

"However, there are no plans to create new Leopard production units or even to relocate production units from Germany to Greece," the statement said.

The only whole new tanks made in US aligned countries are the South Korean K2 and the Japanese Type 10.
The K2 is produced at a rate of like 50 tanks a year. The Japanese Type 10 is produced in homeopathic quantities. In almost 10 years of production they produced a little over 100 tanks. The Japanese produce like a dozen tanks a year.

Plus the T-80BVM's out of Omsk and the T-62M's from Atamanovka then you are pushing 1,000 tanks a year.

Yup.
And there are much more factories where they can not only produce new tanks if needed but refurbish the existing warehouse stocks at comfort rate.
Let's be serious, the UVZ lines are far from doing 120%. I would say it looks like a lazy Sunday.
All of that is being supplied by the reborn heavy industry powered by natural resources they have unlimited numbers for cheap.
Each day increases the Russian output.
Donbas rises from the ashes.
With its coal, steel and chemical industries big enough to outmatch half of Europe, combined.
With its people, hungry for revenge.

Who is going to supply the steel of the required parameters to KMV?
They are in the process of cooling down the smelters due to gas prices.
Yeah, sure, it is politics that can force them to ignite them again, yet ... for what cost?
There is a shortage of gas, worldwide.
Go electric? Sure. Requires billions invested in changing the whole technology.
And where is the electricity to heat them? In switched off nuclear NPPs?

This whole thing is getting more and more interesting to observe, as there is not a single chance that it happens accidentally.
One of the things? OK.
Two? Coincidence.
Three? Conspiracy.


It is like reversing the cold war arms race effects.
The collective west is in a position, where if they are supposed to match the Russkie output, they need to pay an enormous price for that.
A price that will simply force them to reshape all the budget, everything.
How is that supposed to happen, when they run at deficit spending for decades?
Who will absorb the newly emitted debts?
So far, there were the Chinese, Saudis, Russkie who invested heavily in debt papers of the west.
Now it is a joke, everybody who can sell it  as fast as it is possible.
Even if a  miracle will happen, and they will cover the deficit somehow, the prices will be ten times higher than in Russia.
All that spending will blow the inflation balloon.

Edit : literally as we speak :

Eisenwerk Verlag GmbH claimed banqrupcy.

It is the oldest business in Sachsen, running since 1380 (!!!!) in metallurgy. Cause: gas prices.

Most of the documented engagements prove the old truth the western wankers could not understand like forever.
European war theatre has nothing in common with the desert storm-like war.
Tank fights are carried head-on, with several hundred-meter distances, and the terrain and infrastructure make long-range engagements sporadic. You can aim with a more considerable precision if you only have enough time to do so.
Another part of a story is that those lessons are provided to AT crews who operate individual squad level weapon, that will be used with few dozens of meters distance, and sure it can be aimed fire.

Holly Mary, just take a look at that beast