Posted on 04/14/2023 8:18:55 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
he folks at Peto’s Travel Center and Casino in Roanoke, Louisiana see all kinds of vehicles pull up, but Tuesday night was different. What ended up in their parking lot is certainly something of a mystery, to say the least.
Someone left a Russian T-90A tank, which open source intelligence (OSINT) trackers say was captured by Ukraine last fall, on a trailer after the truck hauling it broke down and pulled into this truck stop off U.S. Interstate 10. An employee at Peto's, and the individual who first posted the images on Reddit, shared them with The War Zone.
The T-90A is modern by Russian standards, having been introduced two decades ago, which makes its puzzling voyage from battlefield Ukraine to a truck stop in Louisiana all the more difficult to make sense of.
(More story and pics at link)
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Yes, Biden’s reelection demands it!....................
Not Louisiana or any other southern state. Not that stupid.They’d go for the disarmed northeast and west coast democrat weenies.
Here we are, Pismo Beach!
Doesn’t everyone have a captured Russian tank?
They make great lawnmowers .
Only those of us who watched GOOD Saturday AM cartoons will get that reference.
Why did they ship my tank via the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway?
Not the kind of thing you’d like to leave parked and unattended. Those explosive reactive armor panels could be put to some pretty nefarious use by somebody knowing what to do with them.
They remembered my birthday! How sweet!
They don’t even need to gift wrap it!
Dey shore wuz inna hurry to get it out of JaJa!
If it belongs to the military and not some collector, the final destination is likely Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. They have all kinds of stuff like that there to study and find strengths and weaknesses.
I live near there. There was a huge explosion today that shook my house 3-4 miles away. Just another test.
It’s very common to see flatbeds with obvious military vehicles but they’re almost always covered with shrink wrap.
There is a Russian integrated air defense system (IADS) called Pansyr (or Pansir). The UAE purchased some for the faction in Libya they back. They were getting popped off with some regularity. Someone who had control of a couple of them decided he would rather have two-million dollars in a Swiss bank account than a missile magnet. A C-5 flew in and picked them up, flew them to Ramstein AFB, thence to the United States.
My guess is that that particular T-90 is headed to a turntable on a test range at Sandia National Laboratories. Call it a hunch.
For sale, French rifle, only dropped once...
Those explosive reactive armor may just be egg crates. Seems commanders can buy some nice villas with the money they make selling them.
Obviously, going to some army installation for a valuation. Yuma, El Paso ?
Evaluation
. . . from Pasadena.
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