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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Does it qualify for free shipping?
The russkies have been pulling tanks out of museums and sending them off to fight (or more likely, to become death traps) in the Ukraine.
Some rich dem, is probably sending his collector's item over to help his comrade, Vlad.
A Russian probably drove the tank over our Southern Border with a few illegals hanging on for the ride. History’s easiest invasion.
Who swiped the Dushka from the turret?
Be a bitch finding ammo for that thing.
Yeah, to add to the nice collection in the little museum they have. Always got a kick out of the ZSU-23 with broom handles for cannons.
Spent a hot, sweaty, dirty summer atop a D-8 Cat. I’ll pass on the tanks.
Commie 12.7s (.51 cal.) in VN would fire and cycle with our .50BMG ammo.
Best kind of Soviet cannon!
I did not know that. Even ate the links OK?
I never got to try it, but was told that in pbr school. Their 61mm mortars can use our 60mm ammo, etc., etc., by design. Not that sure about the disintegrating links — they might have had to rebelt them. Could be wrong, too, but a lot of people thought it was correct.
It is a persistent myth.
I think you are probably right. One tank. Woo hoo!
Fascinating. So what they actually do with it ?
Not related to the RVN stuff, but did read that their jet aircraft used the same fuel fittings as NATO for the obvious reasons.
I’ll buy that for a dollar.🤪
It’s duck season.
It’s rabbit season.
It’s duck season.
It’s rabbit season.
It’s Elmer season!🤪
Those Tanks won’t do well in swamps.
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