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So many fucking hours wasted in this accursed site trying to drill into people's heads that 1 tank gone from storage ≠ 1 tank destroyed
Jun 9 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
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. Image 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. Image
Jun 8 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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. There were 253 3 months ago, which fits with the previous estimate of ~15 T-80BVM per month.
Apr 13 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Jan 20 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
There clearly has been a huge movement of stored towed artillery pieces since late summer/early autumn 2025, but unfortunately we lack footage. Image 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: Image
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Nov 22, 2025 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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: Image
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Image Kudos to @aXielMeMer9432 for finding the update on Google Earth!
Nov 20, 2025 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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): Image Like in most bases, the scrapyard has been mostly cleaned out: Image
Nov 13, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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. T-54/55s as well, but that's not so surprising.
Nov 6, 2025 • 87 tweets • 28 min read
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. Image 2/ Here’s the previous threads, first about APCs, where I also explained the fundamentals and methodology:
Oct 30, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Lyman looking as bad as Pokrovsk and Kupyansk. There's one fundamental reason for everything that we're seeing lately, and it's been in the making for 2 years already: Zelensky & co refusing to understand that this is a war of survival and not enacting a proper mobilization. Corruption, incompetence, political interests...
Oct 8, 2025 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Since some people are wondering how many of the "poor" and "worse" tanks can ever be brought back to service, let me explain it once more: ALL OF THEM. It's just a matter of money and time, and how willing the Kremlin is to waste its assets. Image Take for example the 2456th tank storage base. The main facility is the one already known, but to the right there's the old scrapyard. Right when the war started they were scrapping T-62s and 64s there, but they stopped for obvious reasons: Image
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Oct 8, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Thanks to the kind benefactor we observe that in 3-4 months things have changed a lot for the Russian tank reserve:
- Overall tanks have dropped from 3,106 to 2,478.
- More specifically, T-72As, which previously stand almost the same as prewar, have dropped from 900 to just 461. Image Even at bases which previously hadn't seen abrely any tank drawdown like the 2544th, which also has T-62s, T-72As are being pulled out like crazy. Image
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Oct 2, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So we all were wrong, Russia is in fact modernizing T-90As into T-90Ms. And I'm very happy to be proven wrong, as this is good news for Ukraine. Only question now is how many T-90As they had in the first place, how many T-90Ms are actually made from scratch and how long the tank stockpiles will last, considering they already going for T-72As.
Aug 13, 2025 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Sort 🧵about the 6018th: while there's still no new decent footage of this major storage base, a closer look at a recent update on Copernicus (Sentinel-2) appears to show a lot of naked ground on the spot where there used to be a lot of the remaining (poorly conserved) armor. Image
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Image 2/ After mostly emptying out the 6018th earlier in the war, in recent times they've come back to pick up the remains.
Jul 24, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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).
Jul 14, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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. Image
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Jun 26, 2025 • 61 tweets • 27 min read
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:
Jun 25, 2025 • 41 tweets • 17 min read
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:
Jun 15, 2025 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
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:
Jun 10, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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
Jun 2, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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. Image 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. Image
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Apr 27, 2025 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
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. Image 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.