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1/ Analyzing the remaining storage bases uncounted until now. A thread🧵 Image
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! Image
5/ MLRS: Image
6/ Artillery: Image
7/ APCs: Image
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8/ Tanks and IFVs: Image
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. Image
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12/ Same with the 246th: Image
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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: Image
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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. Image
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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. Image
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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. Image
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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. Image
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. Image
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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Jul 24
It would appear whatever stock of T-72Bs held UVZ at their own facilities, is now exhausted, as the Russians have restarted to take T-72Bs stored at the 1311th base to be refurbished at that factory. The stock probably won't last long, I estimate they pull ~20 per month.
Also, unless I'm seriously mistaken with the count/IDs, there are no more T-80BVs at the 1311th. By now it's likely there are no stored T-80s left at all (possibly the ones remaining at the 22nd are all T-80UDs).
Would need a recent image of the 6018th to prove it, but unfortunately that base gets no coverage at all as of lately. This would also point to Omsktransmash being able to quickly work through its backlog of T-80s, similar to what I already analyzed in previous BTRZ threads.
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Jul 14
Based on recent signs at major tank storage bases like the 349th that hold T-72As, it appears Russia is prepping them to bring them back to service.
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Jun 26
1/ Time for the second BTRZ thread! This time we’ll take a look into the state of BMP refurbishment and production rate. Image
2/ Here’s the first thread about BTRZs:
3/ So, before taking a look into the facilities and their capabilities, we have to consider that for the last year Russia has decisively switched tactics to infantry and light vehicles intensive ones.
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Jun 25
1/ Time to review Russian Armor Repair Plants (BTRZs)! Been a long time since the last time we checked them, and they’re crucial to the Russian war machine. Image
2/ Before starting, first I recommend watching @CovertCabal's video on BTRZs:
3/ Here you have the numbers we arrived at: Image
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Jun 15
1/ Bit of a long-delayed update, but after all the recent footage I wanted to focus on showing the changes on the smaller storage bases for a change, not the major ones everyone has heard about. Image
2/ I talked about the different types of storage bases in depth on the attached thread, but I'll focus on the former MESRBs:
3/ These are brigade-sized storage facilities with equipment ready-to-go to refit movilized units or quickly replace material losses. As expected, they're long gone for the most part by now. Image
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Jun 10
Talk about bad luck. The 349th was just updated a tiny bit on Google Earth: Image
And then there'e even more infuriating instances like the 2141st artillery storage base, without an update since late 2022 with pretty bad blurry footage and recently missed by a single kilometer: Image
Of course Google Earth had to update the 769th just one week after I buy my first ever satellite image, precisely of that base. @CovertCabal I feel you now. Image
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