Each carries 48 100mm tank rounds of various flavors.
They will be deployed in trenches and behind berms.
Only air superiority can dislodge them en masse.
Not a bad defensive tactic given they are just sitting in warehouses.
Also not a bad strategy to make your adversary use up their high-tech missiles on low-tech static targets.
The Ukraine counter offensive is supposed to use mechanized units to exploit weak points and drive around static defenses.
We will see.
Pullback equipment and manpower to unleash the nukes.
what’s next Monday?
oh yeah, the start of the 15th month of Putin’s simple little “3-day conquest” ...
it was gonna be Czechoslovakia 1968 all over again! they already had their parade uniforms packed!
LOL
“They will be deployed in trenches and behind berms.
Only air superiority can dislodge them en masse.”
Perhaps “en masse”, but some cheap drones carrying anti-tank grenades can take care of them individually, and no trenches or berms will be likely to stop that.
They also use different caliber shells than the modern 120mm smoothbore of the modern tanks.
Russia has millions of the old caliber shells for the old tanks, sitting in warehouses doing nothing. T-55s use 100mm, T-62s use 115mm.
This means they can be deployed as mobile artillery behind the battle front, without being an additional draw on the newly minted from the factory 120mm shells going to the new tanks.
A few years ago Russia bought 30 fully functional T-34 tanks from Laos. I wonder if they’ll put them to use somewhere?
I mean I can understand using them somewhere so they can free up something more modern for use in combat. But I won’t be surprised if they get deployed to the war zone. Ukraine would use them if they had them so please understand this is not a slight on Russia if they do.
You use what you got.
Anonymous source = I can’t believe it.
Yep! Deploying thousands of units of previously mothballed WWII-era matériel is a sure sign of winning!
And just wait until they start handing out muskets to the most-recent conscripts!
Regards,
Tanks for the memories.
Why doesn’t the West claim victory and go home? Claim, shmaim. Fourteen months of claims and $5 will get you a cup of Starbucks swill.
Not if every other tank on the battlefield out ranges them. As self-propelled artillery they are useful, but against other tanks they are just tank shaped targets.
How’s the U.S. stockpiles looking since the Ukraine grift?
Soon, the Russians will be reduced to bows-and-arrows and throwing rocks and hand-to-hand combat and swords and yelling insults at the enemy and not brushing their teeth.
Over 60,000 produced, but how many are serviceable? How many were even inherited by Russia from the Soviet Union? I’ve seen estimates of what Russia has from 3,000 to 10,000.
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