1/ @aXielMeMer9432 and @waffentraeger just found a lot of updated images boht on Google and Livingatlas. Among these, there are several major storage bases, and as usual, the pattern is them becoming depleted. Let's see a few of them.
2/ Before going deeper, I want to make clear I haven't yet counted any equipment left at these. Still, just a look at them shows that they're not much left.
3/ First of all, the 6018th Central Tank Reserve Base. This one was included in @Vishun_military's recent report, but now it's available for all to see that last September most remaining useful equipment was gone.
4/ Mostly the scrapyard remains filled, but little else remains.
5/ The 943rd is another paradigmatic case of study. @waffentraeger analysed it months ago, but now he have more recent footage from last July.
6/ This base is all but abandoned, mostly destroyed hulls remain. Besides that, a few 2S5s, tanks, BMPs and D-30s. Maybe up to 30 pieces of equipment in total. Risk of Ukrainian strikes, this base is located in Crimea) probably was a deciding factor.
7/ Another base, featured in one of @CovertCabal's latest videos, is the 904th, near the Ukrainian border in Bryansk. Mostly empty now, and the remaining equipment dispersed due to the risk of Ukrainian strikes.
8/ Two more interesting bits of data: 1) we noticed equipment being withdrawn from all bases, even trucks:
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10/ and 2) MT-LBus also being removed from bases where they sat unmoved for years and in small quantities:
11/ And ocassinally also old BTRs:
12/ Also increased moutains of cannibalized hulls and spares parts everywhere, which fits with decreasing amounts of mothballed and unusable vehicles. But that's all for now. Hope it was interesting!
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1/ A while ago I did a small thread on BMP storage bases and which ones were likely to never be bothered with. I feel like it's worth doing the same with tanks.
2/ This is what remains in storage as of the latest imagery I could find. As usual, numbers still look big, but there are caveats.
3/ T-64s we already know their issues with them, so we can outight discard them from the count unless some dramatic development with regards to them happens (unlikely). That's already 1/5 fewer tanks in storage.
So, I got to look to a pretty recent image thanks to a kind soul. As of May 22nd there are 203 T-80s left in Omsk. More than expected, but that's what happen when you rely on Copernicus and similar low res imagery.
Even more interesting, roughly half the remaning T-80s are T-80U/UDs based on their came scheme, there's even more piles of turrets (@T_90AK wink wink) and roughly 30 completely cannibalized and turretles T-80 hulls, likely to be converted to BREM-80s.
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: