1/ Small thread on some insights on stored Russian military trucks.
Jompy@Jonpy99
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Jun 03, 2024
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1/ Small thread on some insights on stored Russian military trucks.
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2/ Like I said in the past, Russia has an immense number of stored trucks, probably in the 40-50k ballpark. However, most are junk, parked there for decades without proper maintenance.
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3/ According to Oryx, Russia has lost 3288 trucks and other utility vehicles: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack…
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4/ It's been more than a year since Russia started resorting massively to vehicles such as UAZ-452.
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5/ This doesn't mean that Russia will run out of trucks. No, if there's one kind of military vehicle easy and cheap to manufacture in huge numbers, those are trucks. And if the worst came to pass for them, civilian trucks still exists. In fact, civilian trucks are not sanctioned and Russia can buy them from friendly states such as China.
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6/ However, the huge attrition on their truck fleet has forced them to unmothball trucks, which is just another proof that the equipment situation for the Russia army is not, let's say, ideal. Let's look at some examples in the following tweets.
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7/ I already mentioned the 1015 Factory for Repair of Military-Technical Property a few days ago:
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8/ Another trucks storage site is the 6532nd. Compare the number of stored trucks between July 2021 and May 2023.
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9/ Or one section of the 774th base: September 2020 and May 2023.
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10/ Let's look at another one, a possibly active base south to the 80th arsenal: August 2021 and September 2023.
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11/ At other bases in this thread such as the 7027th or the one near Atschinsk you can also see they took many or even all trucks, depending on the specific base.
Jompy@Jonpy99
1/ Some more updates on depleted Russian storage facilities thanks to @waffentraeger (this time with his consent, heh). First the 7027th base at Pospelicha. Not a single piece of equipment left there, just an active surveillance radar station from the 590th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.
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12/ And finally the 240th: September 2021 and June 2023.
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13/ That's not to say that Russia will run of trucks. Again, that's just impossible, and then again most stored trucks will remain in their sites because they're most likely broken and repairing them is probably more expensive than just buying new ones.
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14/ However, in many storage depots, the trucks that remain clearly are being checked to see if they can be sent to the frontline. For example here, at the other section of the 744th:
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15/ And other places look to be scrapyards, such as the 96th:
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16/ I'm gonna show a couple truck sites to ensure everyone understands that Russia still have a shitton of these in storage. First the 372nd: barely any chang between August 2021 and September 2023, except some trucks were moved from one place to another of the base.
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17/ And then the 8th arsenal: August 2021 and June 2023.
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18/ Finally, I want to say something about what @HighMarsed said yersterday in his MLRS thread:
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6/ Additionally it is also not that easy to tell the BM-21s apart from the thousands of regular trucks, especially when the rocket pod is covered. This has led to some uncertainties regarding the IDs (some examples in the images below).
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19/ It's so hard to tell apart normal trucks from BM-21s when they don't have their rocket pods on. There's potentially hundreds more of BM-21 Grads in storage, but for some reason Russians unistalled their pods.
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20/ Two possibilities: 1) the trucks aren't working and they took to pods to put them on some actual working trucks, or 2) the wear and tear in the tubes is so high they need a lot of replacements, just like with normal artillery.
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21/ Whatever it's really happening, just because we can't barely find any rocket artillery left in storage doesn't mean Russia will run out of them. Just like trucks, these are so cheap and easy to produce. The real constrain, as HighMarsed said, is ammo, becase Grads are fired in salvos and are saturation munition.
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22/ Once again special thanks to @waffentraeger, he's a wizard of finding newer footage! Without him most of us would have run out of content weeks or even months ago.
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@waffentraeger 23/ Oh damn I forgot, the 691st, which I realized it actually stored fuel trucks and their tanks, has also seen a huge drop in stored equipment:
Jompy@Jonpy99
A few days ago I realized these are in fact not BRDM-2s, but truck-towed fuel tanks. That's why more than half of them from this base were goe by 2023, these are not armored vehicles at all.
