Two days ago, Covert Cabal released a
video counting tanks at the 22nd Central Tank Storage Base (in Buy, Kostroma), and here's how many were there each year:
2021 - 764
2022 - 731
2023 - 487
2024 - 102
The T-80B and T-80U went from 338 to 78 in one portion of the base.
For BMPs and other non-tank armored vehicles, the counts are:
2021 - 1350
2022 - 1055
2023 - 691
2024 - 601
About half the remaining vehicles look to be write-offs that are being kept around for some reason (possibly parts donors?), and the only ones that appear to be in good condition are ~200 BMPs.
This goes along with other recent coverage of the
111th (from 1033 in 2021 to 272 last month, with mostly T-55 and T-62 remaining) and the
769th (815 tanks, but "almost exclusively" T-62).
Those three sites are around 1/3 of the remaining stockpile of tanks. IISS estimated 4,000 remaining around the middle of the year, and those sites have 1,185 as of the most recent count. The 4,000 would have declined some over the past five months as more replacements get pulled.
Russia's certainly not completely out of tanks yet, but it looks like a significant proportion (possibly most) of their remaining tanks in storage are basically junk.
11-25-2024, 06:38 PM
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