Thread by @Jonpy99

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:

https://x.com/Jonpy99/status/1850211405137400111

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.

4/ Like the 247th/338th, completely empty but a few trucks:

5/ The 245th, that a year ago barely had anything left and appears to also be totally empty by now in Sentinel-2 (no recent public footage of decent quality):

6/ The 246th, which almost got mostly depleted pretty soon and last year was refilled with trucks, but this one too appears now empty on Sentinel:

7/ The 239th, which got initially used as a staging point for the February 2022 invasion due to its location near the Ukrainian border, and by late 2024 was mostly deserted and alspo mostly storing trucks:

8/ The 904th, located on Crimea and used initialy also as a staging point for the invasion and later for most of the war as a repair and cannibalizing depot for damaged equipment, also virtually empty by now both of functional and damaged equipment:

https://x.com/A36848080/status/1926086431060967738

8/ Or the 600th, which was the biggest MT-LB depot and now barely has 19 left as of a few days ago, the rest being trucks that got parked there during the war:

9/ Just one base stands, the 230th. Half the equipment there was taken during 2022/early 2023, but since then no changes, but movign the equipment around the base:

10/ Most likely this is due to its remote location on Sakhalin island, right next to Japan:

11/ The rest, we can assume if they aren't entirely depleted of heavy equipment by now, they'll be before this 2025 ends. And at the same time the major storage bases, both Central Tank Reserve Bases and Artillery Arsenals, keep getting thinner and thinner.

12/ Of these major bases, there's now a clear pattern where apparently each base specializes on demothballing one type of equipment. As such, we can expect the 22nd to be out of T-80s and BMPs this year, the 349th of BTR-70s and the 2456th of BMPs, for example.

13/ We can also expect some types of artillery systems to drop in number in storage. For the most part this has ceased to happen as Russia can kinda keep up with arty losses and has already expanded enough their army both in personel and equipment:

14/ But some like 2S1s or M-46s will also decerase in storage for a while.

15/ Finally, I also want to make some clarifications regarding the number of stored equipment in the sheet after the recent update. Some bases were simply recounted because my initial tallies back when I started weren't as realiable as they're now.

16/ But in other cases, it's due to suddenly appareance of certain types of AFVs in storage bases, like MT-LBus at many artillery arsenals or BRDM-2s at the 349th (previously it was BMPs at that same 349th base):

17/ And in other cases, changes in methodology. That's why the MT-LB figure went up, because until now I hadn't counted 9P149 Shturm-S (MT-LB-based ATGM carrier), unlike other things like specialized BTR-60 C&C posts, NBC-variant BRDM-2s or MT-LBus in general.

18/ This can mostly be located on artillery bases. And on top of that, the 374th, near the Finnish border, has seen a dramatic increase of almost all types of equipment, including Shturms and normal MT-LBs these last few months:

19/ That's it for now, but I haven't forgotten I left some threads listed on my to-do list early this year without ever publishing! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

20/ And of course, kudos to everyone that helped: @A36848080, @aXielMeMer943, @dude100500, @HighMarsed, @CovertCabal, @waffentraeger, @Ath3neN0ctu4, @hizzo_jay and many others!

This is the 943rd, I got confused.

21/ In case anyone thinks this is the entire list of smaller storage bases, it isn't. This is just a bunch of samples.