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Their massive losses in Ukraine apparently force the Russian military to improvise: as seen in photos posted on social media, the Kremlin is now sending into battle disused 1940s naval guns – mounted on 1970s Soviet troop transporter chassis. images of the “new” anti-aircraft gun led to derision among war observers.

“Russia claims to have the second strongest army in the world,” says Tendar’s Twitter account, which regularly analyzes images from the war in Ukraine. “Now they are screwing their decades-old naval guns onto troop transporters as if they were an ‘Islamic State’ terrorist cell in the Syrian desert. That speaks volumes about the poor state of Russia’s defense industry.” These photos should show the makeshift vehicles:

The guns are said to be of the type 2M-3, a twin-barrelled 25 mm gun developed after World War II. It is unclear where the photos were taken and whether the improvised vehicles are already in use in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army is said to have obtained a similar model, reports the research organization Oryx, which has documented the losses of armored vehicles on both sides since the beginning of the war:

According to “Oryx”, the Russian army has lost a large share of its vehicles since the beginning of the war – nearly 9,500 units, including 1,787 main battle tanks and nearly 3,250 infantry fighting vehicles and armored troop carriers. The research network counts only those losses that have been documented and located on photographs. Most recently, Putin’s forces are said to have lost nearly 140 vehicles in attacks on the city of Wuhledar in just a few weeks.