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.
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...
Barely any movement in Russian storage bases in 2026 so far. Seems UVZ has enough T-72As in queue for now to pull more from storage, and everything else is pretty much unchanged.
The most remarkable things is the 2456th focusing now on BTR-70s and the 769th slowly pulling the remaining BMPs.
I guess we're officially at the point refurbishing stored armor no longer makes sense. They're all too old and broken down, Russia already has enough armor reserves for what little action they see and new production is already more than enough to compensate losses.
There clearly has been a huge movement of stored towed artillery pieces since late summer/early autumn 2025, but unfortunately we lack footage.
Just look at all those barrels cannibalized at artillery arsenals like Planovyi and compare them with the prewar situation or even just over a year before late 2025:
And also an increasing number of barreless pieces, like these 2A36s:
One of the biggest MT-LB bases prewar, the 7004th is now all but empty. Even most trucks are gone, but what's interesting, I can only spot 3 bad looking MT-LBs left here:
Kudos to @aXielMeMer9432 for finding the update on Google Earth!
@aXielMeMer9432 Otoh, almost everything updated in Ussuriysk is all but empty of anything but trucks, so we can expect the same for the 7020th Arsenal that didn't get updated this time. Here one example of a part of the 7033rd previously storing SPGs and MLRSs:
Just got another update from the 111th. Some interesting things: by now most tanks in this base are the ones in this spot (pics are from September on Google Earth):
Like in most bases, the scrapyard has been mostly cleaned out:
And most of the refurbed BMPs have been dispatched and are no longer in the 111th:
The pace at which these BMPs are being pulled out of this base is so unexpected. Most rows are already half empty, and it's only been 2 months since they started. I was never expecting this from the 111th, it's so noticable yoh don't even need high res imagery to see it.
Just to make it more clear, these were the rows of BMPs in the main area of the 111th base that didn't look (for the most part) like were missing structural components such as turrets or engines back in 2022:
1/ It's time to take a look at Russian tank productions and refurbishment rates! Long time delayed, I know, but finally here! This first part of the thread will be about T-54/55s, T-62s, T-64s and T-80s. T-72 and T-90s and specifics on the industry will come in the second part.
2/ Here’s the previous threads, first about APCs, where I also explained the fundamentals and methodology: