When Will Russia Finally Run Out of Tanks? One Storage Base Keeps Growing 

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Maybe you dont understand how snow works.If you fire up some tank engines it might melt some of that.There are no new tanks, just some underground stuff brought up.Shipping tanks round the country just to collect them somewhere else is nothing anybody would do.either you refurbish or you test them on site.Sometimes russia stores tank underground. surprise

Did try it out for support for your hard work, and been getting my meals steady ever since. Is really a great way to get new inspiration to your cooking.

You’re almost certainly correct they’re full. The interesting question is /full of what?/ Are they functioning tanks or long cannibalized shells and what generation of Soviet armor?

@@paulwilliams667 If garages were used for storage of functional tanks, or tanks in better condition, easier to refurbish - we wouldn't have been seeing decreasing numbers of tanks left sitting outside, exposed to the elements. Garaged tanks would have been sent to the front - not T-55s.

Speculation here, but I would think it more likely that the answer is that they are running out of qualified mechanics to fix them, so they consolidate at a few bases in order to not have a small number of mechanics at all the bases. The idea of it being a school seems unlikely, you would only need a few to learn on, and that number would not grow but would be related to the class size. Obviously as those tanks are fixed, you'd want to bring in more broken ones, but that would still the same number unless the class size is growing. As to harvesting the parts, it also seems unlikely. Cheaper to take the part off the tank where it is, and ship it to where ever the recipient tank is located than ship the whole tank. But who knows, these are Russians we are talking about. For all we know the commander of the base is amassing tanks so when Putin goes down he'll have the biggest tank force in the Russian Civil War.

It makes sense to store vehicles in sheds or whatever, they will have slower corrosion that way. Am I missing something?

​@@Jason-fm4myyes, the sheds arnt that big, so you cant store or fix that many. Russia has always just dumped it all outside, with everything that goes with that.

Well that sounds like 2 major targets.

This is probably the most famous plant of the country.

I wonder if it could be assumed than is it possible that maybe Russia is producing more new tanks than what we thought? That this yard is so close to that tank factory?

Closer to 30 years considering t54/55/62/64 are not frontline tanks, although t62s and 64s are seen now frontline. Even then from the 50s to 91 i

Dude, the soviet plan was for the tanks to get destroyed. So yes, they have 3 years at this rate

@@engineerenginering8633 I'm assuming soviet plan was also to rebuild them?

@@iGrave well yeah,

And to make it more insane - this supposed global superpower is having these loses fighting what was up to recently considered 3rd rate military that was supposed to be overwhelmed and collapse in 3-4 days after being attacked.

I'd go the other way round "snow there" doesnt mean much, for engines running wouldnt neccessarily melt the snow; but "no snow there" definitely means there is something going on there.

@@peka2478 Yeah, but the source of heat doesn't have to be a tank engine. It could be literally anything from a workshop using propane torches to a diesel generator providing electricity during power outages or corrupt soldiers repurposing unused garages to grow weed.

Remember that snow might get deliberately cleaned from the roof if it's getting too heavy for the structure to bear.

What cereal box did you get that analysis of the 'snow melt' on the roof off of? The side that faces the sun has more melt on every single roof.

@@peka2478they used this fact to bust weed grown houses in winter because they were the only houses without snow on the roofs.

Well, if Trump gets in and supports Putler, that's possible.

lol Correct. Fun WW2 fact - in the latter stages of the war Russia was producing more tanks than all other combatants,on both sides,..'combined'. All nations opposing Russia,including the US,have made a huge mistake,an inexcusably stupid mistake. To challenge Russia,anywhere in the world,is going to be no picnic. To challenge Russia in that geographical location,on their very doorstep,is historically moronic. This is what happens when ignorant rich boys (wef) call the shots. If they continue with this..enterprise they will all be smashed. President Trump 2024

Tanks for the laugh 😂

@@ricopedrajrs Still living in your head rent free, I see.

@@ricopedrajrs Still living in your head rent free, I see.

makes sense

WHEN? When anyone will Kazakhstan on anything?

@@bambinaforever1402 What?!?!?

Tens of thousands of tanks*. After the fall of Soviet union, Russia had approximately 30 000 tanks in total. When the second invasion of Ukraine started, it has 10 000 tanks in total. So that's 20 000 tanks just rusting away

@@nichitapavlenco5606or so they claimed, anyway.

Bro speaks about cutting up Russian tanks which were poorly cared for.. if you look at Pakistan, Iran or some other nations which are 'friendly' with the west, you can see soviet tanks from Ukaine which were sold to them in exchange for treasury funds or something the failed state of Ukraine deemed it needed at the time. Well, Ukraine is more corrupt than DRC

They're losing 2-3 tanks a day but no one mentions how they're losing many more from damages. They're experiencing a shortage of both spare parts and qualified mechanics so many of these tanks take months even years to return to the battlefield. Thats why they're using Desert Crosses. Tanks dont magically come back after taking damage. Its not 2-3 years but way less than that.

Affect.

I think everyone (including the Russians) are learning a lot from PERUN's channel. Good video. 👍🏻🇬🇧

​@@fredfred2363 Perun is pretty bad, tho. He is good at compiling infos, but has no technical expertise as some other youtubers have already say before. He misinterpret lot of informations and draws wrong conclusions because of this. I woke-up when the Gell Mann Amnesia Effect hit me hard when he spoke about a subject i perfectly know about. Now i can really watch him.

@@karakiri283 Care to elaborate and give some examples? I like his presentations a lot, which makes a critical eye that much more important.

​​@@karakiri283given how the guy is rather cautious when giving predictions and doesn't really go into technical details i really don't understand what you mean. Could you provide some examples on where he misinterpreted information and drew the wrong vonclusions? I'm not saying that the man can't make mistakes its just i haven't noticed anything big enough to warrant that reaction.

@ArmandoMarques-dn9ur source: trust me bro

It's pretty absurd considering people have been saying Russia would run out of everything 2 years ago 😂. btw this video just pop randomly and i was curious to see what kind of bs would come of it.

@@VIPER276Calls it bs despite literal photographic evidence. Russian cope is so darn funny.

​@@VIPER276 Nice try, Igor

@@cubefreak123 The Russians are emptying their storage because their upgrading their older tank to modern standards, Russia literally declared they are at war. it's crazy are pro Ukies aren't capable of critical thinking.

@@ulfosterberg9116 Kevin you might want to keep it shut if you don't have anything to say, and go see your boyfriend and 2 moms.

Wrong.

​@@ricopedrajrsgood point!

any time now

He´s a hack. He forgets the number one reason why they DON´T RUN OUT OF TANKS: Only a small percentage of tanks are actually destroyed. The rest are recovered and repaired. And if not repairable, it is used to scavenge for parts. While Russia has had many tanks hit, that does not equate to losing them. And since they have an entire industry that builds, repairs, and recovers their tanks, Ukraine can never win, because Ukraine does NOT have such an industry. There are RU tanks in the field that have been knocked out and repaired a dozen times!

Unfortunately they've also ramped up production of new/heavily refurbished models. Quite a while ago now there has been an odd situation developing where the tanks on the battlefield are either increasingly old or new.

@@andrewreynolds4949 fortunately for Ukraine production per year is far far too low to even get close to making up for each years losses. Russia has been losing about 1500 tanks each year and they can only produce at most 200 brand new hulls per year.

@@andrewreynolds4949 the real issue replacing tanks, it’s replacing the tank crews which take time and money to equip and train with combined arms warfare. As the war goes on Russian military personnel, quality and morale, plummet more and more.

@@JarodFarrant And their combined arms training was notably lacking from the beginning. That means new tank crews are even worse.

@@hummerskickass They could IN THEORY produce 200 brand new tanks - but they're not. All evidence points to "production" being only refurbishment of existing stock. Otherwise we'd be seeing T-14s in Ukraine. Which is the new tank they are supposedly producing. Except that's a Potemkin's village and dead in the water.

100% - some of these tanks are for the new divisions being created. That said, Russia has lost a LOT of armour. However, if this war continues to the point where they are seriously about to run out of armour, they will fully mobilise (including armour production). We've seen in WW2 that cheap, basic tanks can be produced in huge numbers when Russia puts their full resources to it. Currently, Putin doesn't want to overly disrupt the economy...

@@colofthedead6101 In WWII, Russia was able to do it only thanks to significant support from other Allies. Now, they are alone and they also cannot dedicate all resources towards the Western direction, because the Chinese threat in the East is no joke.

Probably few to none are for the new soldiers. In the first place, the Russian army’s prewar configuration was extremely poor. Too much fires, not enough logistics and infantry to protect the fires. I would say that the Russian army is still not at full TO&E in terms of armored vehicles.

@@CZpersi And Nazi Germany was unimaginably stronger at the time than today's Ukraine.... I think it's impossible to beat Russia without full scale war, and full scale war would probably mean the destruction of humanity. Russians are building enough tanks for their needs, we could talk after 2,5 years again, but you will hide from the conversation then. I hope there are piece talks, before that point. Otherwise the whole Earth might become a battlefield. Then it wouldn't matter even if you admit your mistake.

Only sensible comment here..the rest are delusional😂

no, he's just lying

@@serzMaga and your assertion is based on ? ...

Nah he's a propaganda mouthpiece like most. Watch them not run out of tanks in another 5 years.

People get easily impressed these days, anything is a legend for them...

@@serzMaga Серж, As a true Russian, you must have ample information to Could support you claim. In your educated opinion how many wonderful T-54/55/62/72/80/90 are left? BTW, what keep you busy fighting on RU-vid, rather than join victorious Russian Army?

Not necessarily losing, remember that Russian army is almost 3x bigger than the initial invasion force in 2022, many tanks were taken to equip new volunteers and mobilized.

@@rodrigosassi3768 3x bigger in terms of what?

But it would make a lot of sense moving possible reactivatable tanks closer to the war and a bigger hub

@@zorndy5750 3x bigger in terms of manpower

@@johnclay2716 russian military pre war had 1.13 million soldiers, in 2024 they have 1.32 million. Not exactly a 3x increase

The best estimate I’ve seen is Russia is producing 350 new tanks a year. Everything else is coming from the depots

Production of 100 tanks a month is an open secret. No one wants to admit it

Is Ukraine winning in this channel?

When the SMO started there were rumors of Russia needing to use T-62/64 and even T-54/55 tanks. I heard from a friend in the Donbass that these old tanks were placed at road intersections behind the lines and manned by "older" soldiers familiar with them. A 100 millimeter cannon would do wonders to a pickup truck speeding through to do hit-and-run attacks on logistics hubs.

This is a propaganda channel.

@@Fiberous_PulleyOut producing means out spending. Living standards declining.

there is a big downtick on their towed arty in storage. Soviet towed arty have the same tube than their SPG counterpart.

It's probably 2.5 years only if they stop building tanks at all. They can also increase the build rate in the future. Overall this war is only making Russia stronger. They have become incompetent after the fall of the Soviet Union, but they are changing, this war is making them more competent. Stalin and his generals were also incompetent at the start of WW2... at the end of the war Soviet Union had the strongest ground army ever.

It's like expecting Russia to run out during WW2 just ridiculous absurd. same thing that as being said 2 ago btw 🤣🤣🤣

@@VIPER276

@@sogerc1 Yes and the Russian fight with shovel and washing machine.

@@VIPER276 You can't wash off the Kiev feint, Snake Island goodwill etc, so just because you say a sarcastic bit doesn't make you less of a trollski.

@@sogerc1 Am not trolling, am telling the reality of things. most of the stuff the US send to the soviet was some boots because of how many soldiers the soviet had.

That’s not your wife, that’s a komodo dragon

Per his last count, Russia still had 6800 towed and 3000 self-propelled artillery left in storage. That should allow Russia to last a while still.

Enough to fight a war for a hundred years. They will win.

@@jehandesains8674 nice what about the GBADs?

@@rsKayiira this I don't have data on. But as far as I know, Russia has plenty of S-300 systems.

@@jehandesains8674 yup!!

Yeah...its not like the only achievements of Ukraine is abandoning positions and retreating. Hey keep repeating this " 2 weeks to Kyiv" stuff if it helps you cope

The Russians never intended to take Kiev, this statement was made by the American General Milley, the plan was to gather troops and force them to sign a peace treaty, in return the Russians would withdraw their troops and this was successful in Turkey, after which Prime Minister Boris Johnson came to Ukraine and banned this document. this has been confirmed many times by both the Turkish and Israeli sides.

@@Killa_Harkan Day 766 of Putin’s disastrous 10 day 'Special Military Operation' against civilians, civilian buildings, civilian infrastructure, churches and grain. Putin - "Everything is on time and is going according to plan, we have lost nothing. I remain a master strategist"

​@@FishandHuntany new trailers for Ukrainian offensive ? 😂😂😂

@@Avroveks So you're saying that even the Russian conspiracy theories involve the Russian military failing miserably to accomplish its objectives.

Seeing in what condition most of Russian bases are I doubt there is any meaningful underground storage facilities for military equipment, especially tanks.

Its a very good point, but its basically a giant grey zone where people usually just don't know. Doubly so for large and secretive countries. And due to the expense, underground storage is typically for CBRN, specialised factories, and C2C. Storage for standard military equipment is usually above ground for conventional militaries. North Korea is a notable exception though, in particular with their artillery

You don't store tanks underground. Number 1 they are very bulky, Number 2 they are actually quite resistent to nuclear blast.

@@Fiberous_Pulley That the T-55's won't see anything before they explode, where's a T-90M might have a chance to shoot something before it goes boom? T-90's also sometimes will survive modern anti-tank weapons, where's a T-55 is vulnerable to things that by modern standards aren't anti-tank weapons. The T-55's also have 4 man crews, where's T-64 and newer are 3 man, and you have to train the crews to some level or they will never get to the battlefield.

"They are saving the good equipment." I remember hearing this a couple of years ago.

@@Fiberous_Pulley not every tank gets shot with NLAW or Javelin.

Russia has 600-700 thousand troops in Ukraine compared to the 190k at the start of the war They need tanks across the entire front, T-90s and T-80s are given to Guard armies and T-62s/T-55s are given to the local army corps formed from the Donetsk/Lugansk rebels and the volunteers Mind you, Russia is also literally sending thousands of Nepalese/Africans/Central Asian mercenaries to the front, you think they're going to give them T-90s too?

@@johnclay2716 estimated 500,000 Russian troops. Russian combat unit make up at the beginning of the war was too small and did not feature enough infantry to work with armored units and protect logistics/support units. Overall, Russian armored vehicles are slightly under strength in terms of both number and quality. In terms of quantity, Russian forces should reconstitute sometime in 2025. Though they will only be able to sustain full strength for about 2-3 years.