Thread by @Jonpy99

1/ A thread on some storage bases we missed during all our previous counts.

2/ A while ago the crew of @tochnyi published an article on the Russian logistics system and its facilities. Ever since, I've been looking at some of the bases noted there that we never noticed before. tochnyi.info/2024/09/logist…

3/ And just yesterday @a_from_s released a thread on the second part of his own T-80 count where he went over some of these.

4/ So, as stated in the article above, in addition to the long-term storage facilities under the logistics centers, Russia has developed several “Military Equipment Storage and Repair Bases” (MESRBs) to staff Motor Rifle Brigades:

5/ A lot of these have been abandoned in recent years after newer storage reforms.

6/ Of these, we know of the 103rd, 104th, 187th, 216th, 227th, 230th, 237th, 240th, 243rd, 245th and 247th. I previously mislabelled the 240th as 82nd.

7/ However, we were missing the other ones in this list. I'll count the equipment stored in them over time, but for now I'll post their locations here.

8/ First, the 99th at Tver. Its possible location is the 79th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade on @Archer83Able's map ( 56°51'14.37"N, 35°50'8.69"E):

9/ Next, the 225th. It's either been decomissioned or moved to another location, as it seems abandoned (50°49'38.96"N, 115°49'58.21"E):

10/ The 261st also was abandoned a few years ago (50°21'23.71"N, 127°35'50.64"E):

11/ And the last of the Motor Rible Brigade MESRBs is the 262nd, near Boguchar, still operational and holding a lot of equipment by 2022 (49°56'33.32"N, 40°29'35.77"E):

12/ And then come the MESRBs designed to form specialized brigades (eg, artillery, sapper, communications, pontoon bridge, repair and restoration and railway brigades, among others).

13/ Again some of these are already known, like the 7027th, the 7045th or the 7022nd. Now it makes a lot of sense why they were either abandoned or near depleted by the time the war started in 2022.

14/ However, some of the ones storing artillery went missing all this time. Like the 7014th near Luga (likely the 9th Guards Artillery Brigade now) ( 58°40'44.99"N, 29°50'3.19"E):

15/ The 7016th at Maykop, which they are demolishing (44°34'14.64"N, 40° 8'5.21"E):

16/ The 7017th at Buzuluk which I have NOT been able to locate, heh.

17/ The 7019th at Chistyye Klyuchi was abandoned a long time ago (52°10'24.02"N, 103°58'31.10"E):

18/ The 7021th arsenal is actually the 7020th, apparently.

19/ And the 7021th is near Nikolskoye, in the Amur oblast, right next to Belogorsk (240th MESRB) (50°55'3.55"N, 128°22'32.79"E):

20/ And then there are some other specialized MESRBs that hold AFVs, like the 7024th near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, right next to Ukraine, which was used as a staging ground for the 2022 invasion (48°18'40.46"N, 40°16'3.13"E):

21/ Or the 7031st at Slavyansk-na-Kubani (45°15'10.78"N, 38° 6'14.64"E):

22/ And finally, in 2018 a reorganization process began in which the MESRBs were reformed into “Mobilization Deployment Support Centers” (MDSCs).

23/ Not much information available on these, but we know some of them. Such as the 943rd, which @waffentraeger analyzed thoroughly:

24/ And some MDSCs are also rebranded MESRBs, like the 904th, which is just the 7024th:

25/ Some more examples of this:

26/ It's also worth noting that not everything is as smooth as it may seems based on this tipology. For example, the 243rd was supposed to also stored AFVs, but it barely had any stored within it and just holds engineering equipment, MLRS and artillery.

27/ Re: 243rd base:

28/ So, in conclusions, probably several hundred more pieces of heavy equipment missed until now in storage counts. But they'll be included from now on, as well as their locations added to the data base.

29/ For now, just big thanks to @Ath3neN0ctu4, @ben334268, @tochnyi, @a_from_s and @waffentraeger, among others!