OSInt researcher Ragnar Gudmundsson, a participant in the Warspotting project (similar to Oryx, but with more stringent criteria for recording losses) , noted a continuation of the trend towards an increase in the percentage of older tanks among Russian losses.
Thus, the number of non-modernized tanks produced in the USSR already reaches 49% for the entire time of a full-scale war, as opposed to those created or modernized in the Russian Federation.
In November, the number of losses among Soviet tanks reaches 59%.
As can be seen from the first graph, the number of losses of older tanks is generally increasing from month to month, although it peaked in the summer of 2023, after which there was some decline.
It can be assumed that the occupiers used older tanks for defense during the summer Ukrainian offensive and saved newer equipment for their own autumn offensive.
However, the trend toward increased use of old Soviet equipment by the occupiers is again beginning to prevail.
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