https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/08/08/goo...n-buryatia
By studying the most recent Google Earth photos from Vagzhanovo, a major open-air military storage depot in Russia’s Buryatia, The Moscow Times has concluded that more than 40 percent of the tanks and other equipment stored at the depot before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been taken out of storage.
The publication reports that around 3,840 pieces of armored equipment appeared on Google Earth photos taken five months before the invasion. By May 2023, this number had shrunk to 2,270. This means that 1,570 tanks and armored vehicles have been taken out of storage over the past 1.5 years. Most of them (32 percent of the original number) left the depot after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin declared mobilization in September 2022.
Putin forced to more and more recycling.
Ukraine too.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/militar...lery-apcs/
So, enterprising mechanics on both sides of are resolving these problems by bolting artillery weapons large and small onto the ubiquitous Soviet MT-LB tracked armored personnel carrier.
A recent video posted by Ukraine’s military shows an MT-LB armored tractor of Ukraine’s 67th Mechanized Brigade with an old 85-millimeter D44 gun on top. Gunners hop up onto the vehicle’s roof to load and fire the World War II-era weapon. With each shot, a spent shell casing is ejected through the cut-out roof of the MT-LB and rolls back out its open rear access hatch.
always interested in seeing the mechs and techs create on the fly.
By studying the most recent Google Earth photos from Vagzhanovo, a major open-air military storage depot in Russia’s Buryatia, The Moscow Times has concluded that more than 40 percent of the tanks and other equipment stored at the depot before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been taken out of storage.
The publication reports that around 3,840 pieces of armored equipment appeared on Google Earth photos taken five months before the invasion. By May 2023, this number had shrunk to 2,270. This means that 1,570 tanks and armored vehicles have been taken out of storage over the past 1.5 years. Most of them (32 percent of the original number) left the depot after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin declared mobilization in September 2022.
Putin forced to more and more recycling.
Ukraine too.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/militar...lery-apcs/
So, enterprising mechanics on both sides of are resolving these problems by bolting artillery weapons large and small onto the ubiquitous Soviet MT-LB tracked armored personnel carrier.
A recent video posted by Ukraine’s military shows an MT-LB armored tractor of Ukraine’s 67th Mechanized Brigade with an old 85-millimeter D44 gun on top. Gunners hop up onto the vehicle’s roof to load and fire the World War II-era weapon. With each shot, a spent shell casing is ejected through the cut-out roof of the MT-LB and rolls back out its open rear access hatch.
always interested in seeing the mechs and techs create on the fly.
once known as El Goobero