Posted on 03/22/2023 2:26:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's president Vladimir Putin, 70, is taking tanks as old as he is out of storage in his desperate bid to crush Ukraine on the battlefield.
A video showing long obsolete Soviet-era T-54B and T-55A tanks - designed to be used in the armies of Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin - on a train carried across Russia, presumably destined for the frontlines of the war, has emerged.
It comes with Putin having already raided museums and storage depots for retired T-62 battle tanks, which halted production 12 years ago.
The geriatric T-54 was originally produced by Stalin after the Second World War in 1946, but Putin seems to be sending to war an updated version from the early 1950s - some 70 years old, the same age as the dictator.
Putin is fond of boasting of the prowess of his military capabilities. However, since his forces crossed the border into Ukraine over a year ago, his armies have been exposed as being outdated both tactically and in terms of equipment.
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“China has a lot of tanks. Like, eight to nine thousand of them.”
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-do-chinese-tanks-compare-russias-and-americas-195633
Don’t you ever get tired of the lies?
I hear China will be providing slingshots and bows-and-arrows to Putin’s efforts.
“Russia has hardly used any Armor”
If so then why aren’t they using new tanks instead of seventy-year-old museum pieces?
I had no idea Jan was a Zeeper. Nice of you to ping him, though.
That event was last year.
I so don’t care.
Maybe the Mexican navy average asset age will be the next thread posted on FR. Can’t wait.
Olive drab coffins....
And?
What will stop them from sending them now?
In this war, Russia has visually confirmed losses of 1871 tanks. They’ve lost another 816 armored fighting vehicles, 2226 infantry fighting vehicles, and 311 armored personnel carriers. So Russia has used armor.
Ukraine has plenty of wide, flat terrain. There was plenty of tank warfare in WW2 and tanks have seen action in this war as well. As far as antitank weapons, it’s still possible to use armor and they still do use armor.
We saw much more tank action early on when Russia had the upper hand in movement. We still see it in their attacks but on a smaller scale, there’s footage of it.
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