For decades, the USSR, and then the Russian Federation, did their best to create a myth about thousands of tanks standing “beyond the Urals” and just waiting for their time to march through Europe.
The imaginary mechanized monster was a powerful foundation of great imperial ambitions for the average Russian, who could expect to get to a civilized country by only one mode of transport – a tank. From time to time, the myth was fueled by stories on propaganda channels, demonstrating these “astronomical” stocks, albeit not the latest, but combat vehicles “created by the USSR to destroy the United States itself.”
Moreover, when the scale of losses of the Russian army in armored vehicles from the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to loom in the minds of ordinary ruscists, it was the myth of “ten thousand tanks beyond the Urals” that became a lifeline for their minds. But small changes in the quality of the Google Maps service and anyone anywhere on Earth can check this myth.
Until recently, most of the military facilities of the Russian Federation, including equipment storage bases, looked like it was quite difficult to disassemble. The same boxes, some darker, some lighter, probably some in better condition, others in worse.
But now extremely interesting details are being exposed. Hundreds of units of armored vehicle hulls without turrets are piled on top of each other:
And it turns out that on the entire huge base, which is simply stocked with armored vehicles, which should be enough for an entire tank army, more or less visually correct, about 100 tanks are stored, at the same time, “on paper” only on this base, the “hulls” of more than a thousand vehicles are visible.
Well, it’s some really distant base somewhere in Primorye. Perhaps things are better “closer to civilization”. For example, the base near Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.
But it seems that a new secret technology for storing tanks was invented at this base. The hull is separate, the turret is separate.
Or, armored vehicles, similar to the BMP-1, from which the engines were removed with a silent hoe and abandoned without even closing the engine and transmission sections.
A similar picture can be seen in other storage bases throughout the Russian Federation. In Omsk, with littered hangars, or Achinsk, with trees that sprouted through trucks.
All these are the remnants of a huge myth about the endless supply of military equipment of the Russian Federation. Which, in the minds of the ruscists, allows you to drive echelons of tanks and armored vehicles to war from unlimited warehouses. But reality is still very different from myth. And he was already staggering from the understanding that all these cars in storage are, at least, without batteries and radios. But it’s one thing to be incomplete, and another is a tree that has sprouted everywhere in the tower.
And a fairly detailed search of the storage bases of the Russian army shows that this is approximately the case in most cases. For a million-strong army, there are only isolated cases when everything looks the way it should look from a satellite.
