Posted on 11/25/2016 8:12:24 AM PST by Fennie
Russia is preparing to upgrade the out of service Soviet-era T-80 battle tanks to beef up its armed forces.
Up to 3,000 of the decommissioned war machines will be given an up-to-date overhaul and rolled out across the Putin's military.
This new cohort of armoured vehicles dwarfs alone Britain's arsenal of tanks six-fold.
Russia already has 15,000 tanks in service - the most in the world - while Britain has just over 400.
The "overhaul and modernisation" of the vehicles will begin next year as Putin continues to boost the military of his resurgent Russia.
Around 550 T-80s are still in use by the Russian army - and these will also be upgraded in the new scheme.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
6,000x 100= 600,000 jobs
At Englishrussia .com you can see what they do with their older tanks ,they abandon them ,the country is full of abandoned Military stuff
Ivan has a interesting way of counting tanks. They will count any tank in storage with zero consideration of the actual usability of the vehicle. The Soviets claimed they had 25,000 tanks when the Germans invaded. A large portion of them were obsolete, rusted out, and unusable.
China better start looking over their shoulder .......
Propaganda and disinformation is a tool as we all should probably know by now...
Well to be fair, Britain is a small island and has subjugated all of the competition and threats.
Russia.....a tad larger.
According to Wikipedia Russia has around 2,500 tanks in actual service. The rest are in storage most likely rotting away.
What about the US and other countries?
“My!” said Little Red Riding Hood, “whatever do you need so many tanks for?”
According to a 2013 report by Global Fire Power, the United States has 8,325 tanks in use.
Plus he should sell the old tanks on eBay!
I would note that the title says 3000 NEW tanks.
The body of the article says 3000 USED/OLD tanks were sent to be REFURBISHED.
I’ll be impressed when they can actually build 3,000 T-14’s.
He probably has Amazon prime and wants to REALLY take advantage of free shipping.
Hahahahaha! Great post, made me LOL!
Along the lines of “Wait until the taxidermy man sees what I brung him!”
They are a giant land country that has experienced numerous European invasions and has very little coastline. Their lines of communication are mostly internal so they have no need for a power projecting navy like ours. So the Russians need tanks, a massive SAM threat, and a retaliatory ICBM threat.
We on the other hand trade in far flung places, and project power all over the world in our “world police” role. (whatever one thinks about whether or not we should have that role)
So we build the most powerful navy on earth, and an Air Force designed on power projection and dominance somewhere else with almost no focus on home defense.
Horses for courses Riding Hood. Its the same reason we will never build that many tanks.
tanks - a lot!
With out the help of Obama for the last eight years they wouldn’t be able to buy 3,000 of the war machines.
That sounds reasonable ..... wonder if they are including such as BMP’s with MBT’s in those numbers though.
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