The source for this is Alexander Kovalenko, a Ukranian political commentator living in Odessa.
Posted on 06/07/2022 9:12:04 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
The PT-76 amphibious light tank equipped with the underpowered 76mm D56T gun was produced from 1951 to 1967 and then was replaced by BMP-1.
The news about applying the PT-76 was provided by the military-political observer Alexander Kovalenko on his Facebook page.
“Until 2010, it remained in service with the russian army, after that all the PT-76’s remaining on the move were sent for storage… But, in 2022, the tank got a second life”, he says.
The russian army little by little starts cosplaying the Cold War Soviet army in terms of soldiers equipment from temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions, having ancient helmets, literally no army boots and armed with Mosin-Nagant rifle.
Apparently, the PT-76 is going to be a warm vibe for those soldiers who cherished the Soviet times.
“So, is the Soviet army running out of tanks?”
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Well, there is no Soviet army but you can ask the Ukrainian/International front line forces if the Russians are running out of tanks.
Maybe they need these to cross the rivers without getting blown to pieces.
Right, this should have been titled.... Fresh off the Russian scrap heap, junker tanks to the rescue!
Tell the Uke’s to spare those ATGM’S....just put banana peels in the roads to save ammo.
“Well, there is no Soviet army...”
Oh, sure, just an army from a country led by a Soviet, commanded by Soviet generals and using Soviet equipment. Who could have made such a silly mistake?
Obviously the Orcs have so many troops they have to break out this old stuff to kit their troops out.
These “tanks” sport 20mm armor with crew of 3, that most modern rifles and certainly .50 cal rifles will pierce easily.
I would suggest that they use these contraptions to escort the shinny new T-62s - that way the Orcs can lose 7 troops at once to modern weapons.
Its obvious the the Orcs are going big time on psychological battlefield operations. Stupid young Orc troops will feel buoyed and upbeat using such armor, and the UA soldiers will feel the same way when they easily destroy these museum pieces.
I can confidently predict we are only weeks away from seeing the most terrifying Orc tank ever: the dreaded T-34.
Rhetorical question: which has the best armor the PT-76 with 20mm steel armor or the US M113 with 28-44mm of 5080 aluminum armor?
My guess is these old Soviet-era tanks will be “Javelin bait” for Ukraine to waste their Javelin missiles on.
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take those pieces of junk out with a el cheapo RPG117 or a heavy machine gun or any rifle firing AP rounds. Keep the javelins for any T-90Ms that show up.
The ‘amphibious’ word in their description is a Russian euphemism for ‘rock’ which is how it behaves in any river crossing.
80mm mortar not artillery.
What’s the matter with the tank I’m driving?
Can’t you tell that it’s out of style?
Should I get a set
Of whitewall treads?
Are you gonna cruise
The Donbass mile?
Nowadays you can’t be too sentimental
Your best bet’s a true
Red army monumental
Breshnev, Yeltsin, even if it’s Putin
It’s still Soviet to me
They are now dipping into their 10,000 T-62s, half probably are operational.
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See for your self in this extensively researched video (spoiler: there are only 2500 operational tanks in the RGF):
How Many Tanks Does Russia Really Have? And Where Are They?
Includes a brief description of military unit conventions and example of how one unit had several name changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhgVrKJJoA&t=619s
They will quite readily cross rivers that are only 1 or 2 feet deep - more and the river will have another rock - that’s without flotation devices attached.
The source for this is Alexander Kovalenko, a Ukranian political commentator living in Odessa.
Wow. The PT76. Virtually no armor to speak of, a low pressure 76mm gun, firing HE and maybe HEAT rounds.
And here we were, that nking RU had decent capabilities and nearly unlimited equipment to throw at the Fulda gap etc.
Mayhap we shoulda jumped back in the mid80s when we achieved Division 86.
Just saying.
Unless of course, the good stuff is all being held in reserve because that’s what you do when you attack a neighbor, send in 3rd string to give them a chance to win....
Then send in the first string after all your 3rd string guys and stuff are depleted, yeah, that’s what professional armies do.
WTF?
“Storage” for the Russian Army often amounts to parking them in the Siberian open air to rust.
👏👏😊
When they ban the Communist party, get rid of their KGB dictator, and stop pursuing imperialist wars against their old Soviet satellite states, then maybe I will believe they have had a legitimate change of heart, rather than simply “triangulating” like leftists usually do when they hit a roadblock.
Tax rates? Give me a break.
You're counting on the Ukraine troops to know and appreciate the difference between specific tanks, then employ the appropriate weapon.
Methinks it will be more like "oh crap, a tank! Shoot!"
Or eating cans of SPAM
US shipped millions of cans of the mystery met to Soviets during WWII
Thin armor...narrow tacks, crappy guy. M60s could pierce rear with Ball ammo....sides and most turret with black tip AP rounds. M72 Laws could pentrate all. M203s really mess them up too. I’d hate to be in grandads small tank in Ukraine. Would rather me in an M113a1 APC with a .50 cal.
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