Thread by @HighMarsed

1/ I have found that Russia has removed barrels and cannibalized almost all of their different types of stored self propelled guns. In this thread I will show satelite images of systems that have been cannibalized or with removed barrels🧵

2/ Starting with the 2S7, you can see 26 vehicles withoout barrels at the 94th in satelite images from June 2023. Unfortunately the image we have from Jan 2024 has lower resolution so I dont know how many have been removed since.

3/ Regarding the 2S19 I have only found them at the 80th in pre-war images and they hadn't moved until recently. Counting the shadows of the barrels and comparing them with the number of hulls reveals, that roughly ~20 barrels have been removed.

4/ Additionally some 2S19 have appeared at the 120th, which could have been taken from garages or brought from the front since Brjansk is not that far from Ukraine. The Masta-S I marked seem to be used for spare parts and a few dont have a barrel:

5/ The 2S5 systems have also seen a lot of cannibalization. You can see that in 2021 they had 61 2S5 at this spot at the 7020th of which 25 were removed and 18 of the remaining vehicles had their barrel removed.

6/ Here are 19 2S5 at the 94th without barrels. Getting an accurate number for this base is unfortunately not that easy. I previously stated that 141 barrels were removed but after staring at Google Earth for a while I dont really know which of them dont have a barrel anymore.

7/ I cant see the barrel on most of these vehicles, but for some of them there is a slight shadow and a white spot which could be the cap at the front of the barrel. To be save I wil go with at least 40 barrels removed.

8/ As you can see in these image the 2S9 hasnt been spared. You can see that 2 are missing their whole turret and others seem to be missing their gun and stored with open hatches.

9/ The 2S1 seems to be the only SPG that still has large stocks and hasnt been cannibalized in a significant way, whereas 2S4 and 2S3 have been removed in larger numbers and a few have also been cannibalized.

10/ Unfortunately this analysis is based on older images since more recent footage does not have the necessary resolution. I think it is reasonable to assume that a fraction of the remaining SPG stocks can be considered unusable.

11/ Unfortunately I dont know the true extent of this, especially regarding towed artillery, but I think that 2S7 and 2S5 are most affected by this. We might see that most of the rmaining systems are already cannibalized at least for the 2S7s at the 94th.