Another John wrote
harryagain wrote

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Now why are the Russians coming up with a new tank at this time I wonder?

Because they have something called "heavy industry", things
called "factories", thousands of skilled workers, and making
military vehicles is a strong tradition they won't let go of?

Most of those are actually in the Ukraine.

Oh. And they have the whole of the USSR to take back.

They wont be taking it back and don’t need main battle
tanks to do that even if they did want to do that.