Soviet tanks as far as the eye can see

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Originally Posted by Oberon

EDIT: Just seen the pic as posted...Whoa...that is...rather a lot of tanks. 64s or 72s?

They all appear to be T-72s in the shot August posted with a few T-62s in the mix the turrets are all pointed 180 aft as well making Id a slight bit harder and no good side views of the tracks if you could see the wheels you could ID one from the other easy the skirts say T-72 to me so does the main gun barrel.

You could ask an old T-72 crewman but you can not because one would be unable to properly greet a former T-72 crewman because his arms will have been sliced off by the auto loader.

I wonder this place is like the Anniston Army Depot where they rebuild M1A1a and A2s and all assorted parts actually all AFVs of the DOD get refurbished there.I have a friend that works there it looks sort of this Russian place only more organized and they take the ERA off but those in the Russian pictures likely had the plastic explosive removed you can do that with the ERA for the Abrams as well I have seen M1A1/2s inside C-5s and 17s and they had the ERA on them and the load master told me that they remove the explosives but leave the container on the hull.

They ship the AFV to Anniston Army Depot via train or flat bed truck and in all they get a layer of reddish rust on them while they sit outside waiting for refurbishment.

Russian depot yards are just very sloppy for some reason.