Before starting a newer count I decided to review the current one, because I was unsure about some BTR identifications. I decided to try Yandex. Alas, idk why I didn't use it before, there's so much newer footage there.
For example, the 4990th. Before the war there were over 600 MT-LBs, and we didn't get newer footage from that one in all these two years on Google Earth. But take a look at Yandex, just 91 MT-LBs remained there a while ago, three of them visibly broken hulls.
Another base we didn't got newer footage, the 230th. Here a lot of stuff is gone too.
All in all, of the total amount of MT-LBs we found during our updated count, these new Yandex images show that half of them are gone from storage already. Unfortunately, there's not much newer footage to significantly update our numbers of other AFV types.
Only a single base remains with a considerable amount of MT-LBs: the 7020th in the Far East, with 342 MT-LBs stored there as of May 2023. In every other base they're counted by the dozens, except at the 187th as of May 2022 where the number actually increased to 115.
I estimate the current number of MT-LBs in storage in 400-500, including 100 broken hulls. Consider that they started the war with 2,4k in storage and according to TMB2021 another 3k in active service.
Here are the prewar numbers in case someone didn't see this tweet.
1/ Thread about my estimations on what currently remains in Russian storage. Consider that even the most recent footage from @Vishun_military is already 2-4 months old, and almost everything else is far older.
2/ Here you have my most recent AFV count:
3/ Back when @HighMarsed and I published the results of our prewar analysis, I also posted what I estamated Russia had in storage by late January/early February 2024. I wasn't that far off for the most part:
1/ It's time to show the rest of BMPs and BTRs left in Russian storage. Here's my final thread on AFV counts.
2/ Here you have the numbers at the remaining storage bases storing BMPs and BTRs which I haven't covered until now, with outdated dates in orange. First BMPs:
1/ Time for the last of my individual AFV counts for now. This time is the BRDM-2, the obsolete Soviet armored scout car.
2/ Here are the numbers from prewar and latest footage of BRDM-2s in Russian storage by @HighMarsed and me: 1300 vehicles in 2021 and 1188 nowadays, including 251 visibly broken ones.
I had to split the table in two screenshots because otherwise it wouldn't fit. Specially old footage is marked in orange, as usual.
1/ Updated MT-LBu count. There haven't been a lot of movement of MT-LBus in storage, but still, let's see how things have changed since 2021.
2/ First, numbers from prewar and recent footage. @HighMarsed and I found 1229 stored MT-LBs before the war, and now there are 1053, so at least 176 have been removed from military storage bases. As usual, especially old footage dates is marked in orange.
3/ A bit of a reminder of my previous MT-LBu thread, where I explained some bits about them.