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The problem is that we're really stuck in a digital monoculture, where decades of anti-competitive practices have created it so that just one system is responsible for so much of what we rely on from everything from airlines to hospitals to schools," Mir said. "One mistake that creates a big failure, it happens, it's an inevitability. But for it to have this sort of impact is a policy failure.
The 47-ton, three-person T-72B3M is one of just two tank types in production in Russia. The other is the heavier T-90M. Russian industry manufactures between 500 and 600 new T-72s and T-90s a year. That’s a lot more tanks than any other country produces in a year, but far too few to make good the roughly 1,200 tanks Russian forces lose in Ukraine every year.
To make up the gap between tank production and tank losses, the Kremlin has been pulling old tanks—T-54/55s from the 1950s, T-62s from the ’60s and older T-72s and T-80s from the ’70s and ’80s—out of long-term storage
