1/ Analyzing the remaining storage bases uncounted until now. A thread🧵
2/ So, as I explained recently in another thread where I posted their coordinates, thanks to a recent article from @tochnyi I realized we had been missing some minor storage bases until now.
3/ This is the article, I recommend it: tochnyi.info/2024/09/logist…
4/ In any case, after a lot of work, and not with a degree of uncertainty regarding whether I accurately pinpointed the location of said storage bases or not, I bring you the numbers!
5/ MLRS:
6/ Artillery:
7/ APCs:
8/ Tanks and IFVs:
9/ I'll need some time to properly ID tanks, SPGs and towed artillery, as that's @HighMarsed and others specialty. However, when added to the equipment already tallied in our spreadsheet, you can see that this increases even more Russian losses. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
10/ I'm not going to go over every base here, it's too much. Suffice to look at some and also note that most of them lack recent footage.
11/ So, that said, let's take a look at the 262nd. By the most recent footage in May 2023 it was almost empty.
12/ Same with the 246th:
13/ @waffentraeger already did an awesome thread analyzing the 943rd at Novoozerne in detail, so better to stick to his thread:
14/ And tbe 904th actually looks more like a staging ground, as it's very close to Ukraine, tho it also hosts less equipment than before the war started, and mostly trucks:
15/ Another few things I want to note here. First, I keep finding that Russians are taking away the scrap from the fields. Like here, at the tank scrapyard of the 7004th in Ussuriysk.
16/ Which brings me back to one of my earliest threads.
17/ Second, sometimes the limit between what's storage and what's not is very hard to tell. Like this training area right nect to the 7049th in Luga. All thos MT-LBs and SPGs, should they be counted or not? I didn't, but for what's worth, looking at Sentinel-2 they're long gone.
18/ Third, and related to the previous post, surely we're also missing some equipment by sticking purely to storage bases. Take a look at this staging area near Yelnya. It's an active base, but right before the start of the war a lot was stored there. But it's not storage.
19/ One last thing to finish this thread. It was also needed to update the corresponding storage bases' designation, so, among other things:
237th -> 330th
240th -> 378th
247th -> 338th
7004th -> 597th
7024th -> 904th
7022nd -> 425th
7033th -> 781st
20/ 216th -> 374th
The 2456th and 103rd are apparently the same, while the 769th Central Tank Reserve is the main body of the base and the 227th is around, which in turn the 227th becomes the 835th and 342nd.
And there's even more changes, but this is already confusing enough.
21/ So, I'll just update the sheet, and hopefully next weekend there'll be another thread or even two on smaller topics. I still want to do the BTRZ update before 2024 ends, but we'll see about it.
22/ Actually, already started working on the towed AA guns count. What a throwback...
23/ Aaaand finished! But I'll publish it some days down the road. Just BTRZs and active bases left to count!
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