With russia's stockpile of T-80 tanks for refurbishment nearly exhausted, the Kremlin has turned to building a "hybrid" that effectively resembles a T-80UE-1 upgraded to the T-80BVM standard

Overall, despite the declining use of armored vehicles on the battlefield.

This is nonsense that has to stop, if I could snap my fingers and make 500 MRAPs appear it would make a strategic difference for Ukraine, same thing with Bradleys or similar IFVs.

The story here is that russia sucks at iterative armor design, not that armored vehicles are obsolete.

If russia was producing a tank like the SEP v3 Abrams with a Bullfrog C-UAS or APS system this would be a different story. They can’t and they wouldn’t even if they could. As such these tanks can be seen as the equivalent of pursuing the white whale in moby dick.