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Managing Russia’s Military-Industrial Degradation: Navigating Wartime Industrial Constraints, Stockpile Exhaustion, and Hardware Attrition

By Mathieu Boulègue, Federico Borsari, and Pavel Luzin

Four years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military industry has entered a period of managed degradation.

November 10, 2026
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Illustration: Zoe Beach/Center for European Policy Analysis. Credit: Arctic Circle Map/ Reuters. Members of the Norwegian Army participate in a military exercise called "Cold Response 2022", gathering around 30,000 troops from NATO member countries plus Finland and Sweden, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, near Bjerkvik in the Arctic Circle, Norway, March 24, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Managing Russia’s Military-Industrial Degradation: Navigating Wartime Industrial Constraints, Stockpile Exhaustion, and Hardware Attrition
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Four years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military industry has entered a period of managed degradation.

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