Russia is repairing their T-62 and BTR-50 tanks due to an armored vehicle shortage on the battlefield.

According to British intelligence, the Russian army is recommissioning and deploying 60-year-old T-62 main battle tanks to compensate for their loss of armored vehicles. Since the summer of 2022, approximately 800 have been recommissioned from storage, some receiving upgraded sighting systems that are likely to improve their nighttime effectiveness. The Russian Army was to receive next-generation T-14 Armata tanks, but due to insufficient numbers of armored vehicles, they are forced to use whatever they can find in the old, Soviet-era warehouses. Recently, Russian BTR-50 armored personnel carriers, first put into service in 1954, have been identified for the first time in Ukraine. Both types of legacy vehicles will have many vulnerabilities on the modern battlefield, including the lack of modern dynamic armor, noted the British Ministry of Defense.