 Russia may resume production of TAT tanks. The Russian Ural-Varganzavod may resume production of TAT tanks at the request of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the general director of the plant, Alexander Potapov, told Zvezda TV. According to him, the company's management is now working on issues related to the production of the tanks. We are also working on these issues with the Ministry of Industry and Trade because this requires, accordingly, new capacities. Potapov explained the TAT tank was produced in the USSR at the Omsk Transport Engineering Plant and entered service with the Soviet Army in 1976. Ural-Varganzavod's factory in Omsk, Siberia, has not built a new TAT hull since 1991. It is clear why the Kremlin would apparently order Ural-Varganzavod to resume production of the 46-ton, 3-man TAT with its 125mm main gun. In its 19th-month long war over Ukraine, Russia has lost nearly 2,000 tanks, almost half the number of tanks the Russian Army has in frontline service by early 2022. And while the Russians have recouped many of their losses by restoring older tanks that are in storage, including potentially hundreds of early model TATs, the supply of stored tanks is not unlimited. It is unclear which TAT model Ural-Varganzavod will produce, whether it will indeed produce a brand new tank.