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8/ Two more interesting bits of data: 1) we noticed equipment being withdrawn from all bases, even trucks: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/ 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.
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.
Talk about bad luck. The 349th was just updated a tiny bit on Google Earth:
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:
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.
This is the image I recently bought: the 769th as of May 30th 2025. I won't bother couting it because it's too grainy and numbers appears to remain more or less the same as last time. But that's not the interesting part.
You probably noticed already that the local junkyard has been cleaned up. They most likely are sorting and cannibalizing those hulls for any useful part to send to BTRZs to repair other stored BMPs.
That's also why some previously emptied spots have been refilled, with those cannibalized hulls moved there to not confuse them with unchecked hulls.
It's about time to realize Russia has a shitton of equipment. Just because they lost 2k BMP-2s and still use them amptly does NOT mean they're getting them abroad.
They started the war with 3k in active service and probably 1-1,5k more in storage. Just like MT-LBs, we'll see them for a long time even after stored ones have been depleted for replenishment.
1/ One last thread to end 2024! Let's take a quick look at Russia's towed AA guns in storage: S-60s and KS-19s 🧵
2/ So it's no mystery that this war is full of stark contrats: Leopard 2s and self-propelled MT-LBs, Ladas and BMP-3s... And also old towed AA guns repurposed for ground targets. The main Soviet systems in this regard were S-60s and KS-19s.
3/ Both Ukraine and Russia have been using them extensively since 2022. But while Ukraine at times modernizes them with targeting systems (not always tho)...