 No modern tanks were present on Russia's Red Square during the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9. This was a notable diversion from the last year when a column of modern tanks was paraded past the Kremlin. The 2023 parade was full of traditional pump but unmistakably scaled down from previous years in place of phalanxes of modern battle tanks, a single World War II vintage T-34 tank rolled across the square. The usual fighter jet flyover was canceled. Russian officials have said on numerous occasions in recent times that the country had beefed up military production this year, including both the construction of new tanks and the modernization of older ones. Russia launched what it calls its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022 and both sides have sustained significant losses during over a year of fighting.