Abandoned hundred Russian Army tanks found near Ural

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So it seems if you live near Ural now is a good chance to get good look at T-80 from inside and outside.
The response from army was, that this is nothing new and there is tight patrol's guarding them. Reality is bit different, as the aren't enough manpower to guard them all. Dmitri Burdakov told Kommersant, that tanks are routine logistical operational maneuver and are planed for transport to some military base.

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Wonder what else will they unearth, few mammoths and SCUDs. :P
 
That's twice the tanks the entire Finnish Defence Forces has.
Just sitting near The Ural mountains, covered in snow.
 
It would be a small Ural farmboy's dream if he stumbled upon those. He could destroy the local school with it.
 
from what I understood russia have too many tanks, but it keeps producing them anyway since lots of jobs are tied into the industry. So those tanks might be brand new.
 
Dragula said:
Russian standards? Those tank will break down if you breathe at them.
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pfh, they just make a fire under them to warm up the engine and start it. Any parts rusted shut will smooth up as they get used. This is russian design, russian designed tanks produced in the fifties are still in use. In combat. It's like the AK-47, they just don't die.
 
jup certain T34/85 and modified US M10 tank hunters saw some use in the Yugoslavian wars around the 90s if I remember correctly.

Dragula said:
Russian standards? Those tank will break down if you breathe at them.
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Sounds good enough for a Russian. Thats more then they get usualy
 
Kahgan said:
Any parts rusted shut will smooth up as they get used. This is russian design, russian designed tanks produced in the fifties are still in use. In combat. It's like the AK-47, they just don't die.
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Not necessarily. If it's too rusted you won't be able to use it, ever again. There are engineering standards, you know. War isn't touch and go, not even for the Russians.

This is a tank boneyard, and it's all scrap metal. If they ever wanted to re-use everything, they wouldn't have put it outside in the snow. I'm guessing the tanks have been stripped of integral parts, most of them propably wouldn't even start. The guards are there simply because it's a military area, and they don't want people fucking around stealing stuff or hurting themselves.

Most "AK-47s" are actually AKM copies made during later decades. Very few, if any, active AK-47s remain in use today. And check every single pic featuring armed African rebels and you'll see plenty of broken down AKMs.
 
Well, T-80s aren't that old. Derivatives from them (e.g. T-84) are still being used in some armies today.

That said, real men don't need fancy, shiny war machines. They'll take you on with their bare hands. That's more or less how we won WWII :lol:
 
victor said:
Not necessarily. If it's too rusted you won't be able to use it, ever again. There are engineering standards, you know. War isn't touch and go, not even for the Russians.
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Well while you are of course right and most of us are somewhat just beeing silly thing is that the russians when it comes to war usualy always reach a new kind of level and robustness.

For example in Stalingrad during the siege and fighting they still keept producing tanks while German soldiers inside the city (at one point they almost captured 90% of it or so) started fighting for the factory. They had no time or parts to assamble optics or correct equipment in the tanks so they just simply send them out of the factory direcetly to the battlefield in the fight while tank crews would aim at the enemy just with the barrel looking trough it directly aiming before loading a shell.

If there is something the Russians know then its warefare against all kind of odds.

Even German generals and officers have been quite surprised and schocked by the sheer agressivnes and discipline by russian soldiers regarding harsh situations which they believed had something to do with the life in the steppe eventualy making people "dull" to such harsh conditions.
 
Right. And how many millions of Russians died? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm sure many have done similar things in war. Not excluding the Germans in '45.
 
My brother who did military service on the border once talking with some norwegian helkopter pilots explained it like this. "If our helikoter has to do an emergency landing due to engine failure we need to get some repair team in there to find out what is wrong. The russians will take out some spare parts and fix it with duct tape and some metal wire and fly off in no time at all"
 
You'd be amazed what duct tape can do. Seriously:

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wiki article on duct tape said:
It was also used to repair military equipment quickly, including jeeps, firearms, and aircraft because of these properties.
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I'd think the reason why Russians would do it that way is a lower safety standard. It's entirely possible and even quite safe to repair aircraft with duct tape. Maybe Norwegian helicopter pilots aren't allowed to do it (in peacetime) even if they know how because of insurance issues. They said that jokingly, but they'd do the same in a war situation.
 
Heh the Observer said these were new tanks for some reason, but I guess it's hard to tell with Russian tanks.
 
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