What is done with written-off equipment in the Russian army? They disassemble it, of course. Though sometimes it is bought by other countries.
Tanks T-62M1, for example.
Here we’ll show how they are loaded on railway platforms.
They take old, rusty tanks and some faultless equipment from other tanks and prepare them for paiting.
A tank is disassembled, cleaned, greased, painted from inside and outside.
Then the tank is sent for running in. Its gun is checked. 10 pails of water are filled up into the burrel and it is plugged with a log. Boom! The recoil is OK! It looks like a real shot.
This is how ready tanks look like. Before the departure all attached implements are disassembled and the barrel is turned backwards. All accessories and spares are put into cases. One case may weigh up to 700 kg. So 15 men are required to load it.
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Cool. Rather than sell the old tanks, sell them to countries that don’t need modern tanks.
Such as Iceland or Fiji.
Iceland doesn’t even have armed forces
No Iceland has a military of sorts, consisting f 50 guys drawn from the police and coast guard.
Neither of those nations have need for tanks buying them would be a waste of time heck those two nations basically do not even have armed forces beyond arbitrary defensive units and Fiji has at best police.
I bet many of those tanks go to the US and western Europe and get purchased by wealthy guys that collect them there are several privately owned T-62s and T-54/55s in the US.I bet they get more money form that kind of sale than they do selling them to a third world nation at least per unit anyway they probably sell 4 or 5 at a time then.But the market value of a tank to a collector is very high.Just like ht AK-47 in the US a true military grade fully automatic AK-47 goes for nearly $10,000.00 and that is a very used one in Africa or Pakistan that same AK might cost $50 dollars.
Full auto AK-47’s cost so much in the U.S. due to artificial scarcity created by import/export bans. Otherwise they would be just as cheap as Africa.
You can(i can) make a full auto AK-47 in two hours work and 50$ costs…….In Romania is possible.
Supply and demand. More and more of what we want is outlawed. So the price goes higher. Collectors are going to have to hide these from the government. Otherwise, they will be scrapped, outlawed. I wish we could be free to own anything we liked. Even old military trucks are getting to be hard to register. Too many regulations
Cool post!
From where? My uncle has a pretty good size collection of old military vehicles(nothing like what a wealthy guy would have but still) in the US as long as the cannon or anything similar is rendered no functional you can have it and that kind of makes sense really.Actually the regulations are fairly limited in the US.
It makes sense that fully automatic weapons are hard to get you can defend yourself just fine with any semi auto rifle.
every *big boy* would be happy about a tank!! ^^