Yuri Kobzar15:54,
All other tank storage bases in Russia have been “melting” for two years now.
At the current rate of military losses and the current volume of new military production, Russia will run out of all tanks in about 2-2.5 years. Such calculations were made by military observer Covert Cabal .
The analyst notes that since the beginning of a full-scale war, all Russian equipment storage bases have been gradually depleted. The only exception was one of them – the 1311th central equipment reserve base in Verkhnyaya Pyshma near Yekaterinburg. There, tank stocks are growing, and significantly – by hundreds of units per year.
Based on satellite and other public data, the analyst estimated that in August 2022, only about 300 visually serviceable tanks were stored at the base. In March 2023 there were already 400 of them, in October 2023 the number increased to 550. Images from March 20, 2024 indicate 560 tanks in the open air and probably another 400 in covered hangars.
According to the analyst, it is likely that the base in Verkhnyaya Pyshma is used as the main intermediate point for storing and repairing tanks transferred from the eastern regions of Russia. As Covert Cabal notes, Yekaterinburg is an important logistics hub on the Trans-Siberian Railway and the westernmost storage base for military equipment on the route leading to Ukraine.
There are only two large storage bases located further to the west. The 22nd is near Kostroma, which is much north of Ukraine and therefore inconvenient from a logistics point of view. And the 7024th base near the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, i.e. almost on the border with Ukraine, where Ukrainian missiles and drones can reach.
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Sounds like a couple worthy future targets.
“Russia will run out of all tanks in about 2-2.5 years.”
I don’t doubt that a reasonable calculation can come to that result, but it’s misleading. Firstly, Russia will probably hide its last tanks, most likely the prestigious T-14s, deep in Siberia to prevent them from being destroyed. And secondly, not when Russia loses its last tanks is the important point, but when Ukraine gains the upper hand, by numbers. And that will be reached much sooner, I guess. Maybe even at the end of this year, but much of that depends on factors that can’t be forecast precisely. A major one being the amount of Nato deliveries. It’s high time to send tank reinforcements! 🤨
Precise artillery and drone strikes, the various ATMs in the Ukrainian arsenal, and anti-tank mines, will turn those tanks into burning hulks, too.
I don’t think this would work, Foccusser. Probably all the fuel has already heen stolen from the tanks’ tanks, nothing left to burn there. Only rusty steel, which isn’t a huge threat for the AFU. 😎
Oops, sorry, Mr. Ofp! 👋🙂
That’s assuming these tanks are in working order. Just because they are sitting there means nothing.
I can’t imagine they’re running, regarding the shortage of Russian tanks at the front. But a closer look at that arsenal would be interesting. Are those damaged vehicles from the front? Yekaterinburg ain’t far from the Uralvagonzavod factory where they patch those clunkers up. Just a bit south of it.🤔
It’s anyone’s guess if thy are running or not. Besides that, merely running is just the first step to refurbishing a tank. They might be in running order, but need additional work on all the other systems and sub-systems, or vice versa.