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BTRZs – Tank Repair Factories. Can They Keep Up?

January 11, 2025

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  1. A fairly good, brief video showing the process of refurbishing stored armored vehicles.
    At this point, I beg to differ from the narrator of the video. If they can keep up with losses, why are they using golf carts, mopeds, electric scooters, or even hoofing it into many of their assaults lately? They already have been scraping the bottom of the barrels. As time goes on, on average, each vehicle they pull out of storage today will be in worse shape than the one they pulled out yesterday. They’ve already used up all the vehicles that are fixable in a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise, you would never see golf carts and scooters being used to attack across an open field. Oh, let’s not forget the bicycles, too.

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  2. Here is a comment made by one viewer which I find interesting:

    Before I retired I worked at the Anniston Army Depot. My real job was Rebuilding and Upgrading M1 Abrams Tanks. I was known for being able to work on anything and because of that after Desert Storm we had a lot of captured Russian Equipment and they put me in charge of rebuilding it all to send it to Training Grounds for Opposing Forces use in war games so troops would see and interact with actual Russian Equipment including Tanks and Personal Carriers. Russian Equipment is very difficult to work on. We Americans build vehicles using easy to replace modular designs. The Russians don’t. The power pack on an Abrams Tank comes out of the engine compartment as a single unit and can be easily replaced with a new or rebuilt power pack. That’s not the case with Russian Equipment. It’s all assembled one piece at a time in the engine compartment like a Chinese Puzzle. The engine and transmission are incredibly complicated as well. Absolutely nothing is simple at all. You’ll spend the entire 40 hour work week just getting everything out of a Tank Engine compartment. Triple that when you start putting everything back in. The entire vehicle is like that as well. Basically they are stuck in the 1930’s. If you look at their Military Trucks and vehicles they all appear to have been made in the 1930’s as well despite being newly made vehicles. When we set up to assemble Rebuilt M1 Abrams Tanks we would start an assembly line and move the tanks down the assembly going from a stripped hull to a fully assembled, running, and driving tank producing 1 tank a day in one shift. If we went to three shifts a day operating the assembly line 24 hours a day we were producing 3 complete fully operational M1 Abrams Tanks a day. It took us a full month to assemble one T-72 Tank.

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