The Expired Tanks
We all get used to those small “best before” or “expiry” labels stamped on the items from the grocery stores, but it looks like some much bigger in size things like tanks can have an expiration date too.
Here’s what the Russian blogger, ex soldier writes: “Last summer I visited the army camp as a soldier, in the tanks unit. And that’s what we’ve done there. Every soldier was given a crowbar, hammers, set of wrenches and unlimited free time to crush all you can crush with all those tools. Dashboards, electronic fillings, plastic fittings etc. can be easily first crashed, then the next step is more challenging - with wrenches you need to loose all screws you can reach.”
All the tanks are new, just from the warehouse. The only reason why they should be destroyed is their expiration date. They come to this tank slaughter house by their own, not towed or dragged just to become a pile of scrap metal days later.
With the crane they tear away the turrets, on the background you can see rows of the tanks prepared to go next.
Tank without a turret, as seen from above.
This one is almost finnished.
So, the importance of expiration date can be really underestimated when paying not much attention to it. Even tanks are subject to it.
via Becas
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FIRST!!
Tanks for the memories…..
Again we prove we are the fastest and the most powerful!! Before Georgians or NATO Assholes can even think of it, we already did it: destroy our tanks!! because we do not need them to destroy the crazies from rest of world!!! we can beat everybody by will power!!! and we will prove !
Great. More Russian taxpayer rubles pissed away. The least they could do is melt them down & recover the value out of the steel carcass. Shit what a waste of money.
It’s not Russian taxpayer money, but soviet union
Russia has 20 thousand outdated tanks that need to be demolished, melted and reforged into modern tanks like the T90 and T95
Old tanks are useless except for selling or reforging
Soviet Union. ’nuff said. First they build 50 thousand tanks, then they use slave labor to destroy them. Business as usual in Russia.
Get outta here, useless man
At least, I do not stoop as low as to steal somebody else’s nickname.
…unlike some.
Very interesting read!
Amazing to see.
Great pictures, and I agree, business as usual, from what I heard/seen the Russian soldiers are treated like shit, at least get have unlimited free time to do outside work.
K, but what you say is worthless. Why? Because you have no idea what you are talking about :).
Being in army may not be lucerative, but they are certainly not treated “like shit”. Actually, this kind of work sounds pretty fun :), not like slave labour like the stupid anti communist/anti USSR/anti Russia idiot above (he is that because he wants to justify the fact that he moved from Russia/USSR), cynical bastard said.
You heard? Who told you that? Your tender gay lover?
Army is not for gays like you are.
You can go suck my dick. Russia is great. We are best at tanks and destroying them. And gay are fun and peace loving peoples!! Russia do not like gay!! Kick them back to itali where gay is standard
Russian business is much better than American one, when for example they had to dump M60 tanks.
Each unit had to bring thier tanks to full operating conditions, so any machine that was missing anything has to be equiped with it before going to sea bottom.
So new engines, night vision systems, fire controls, guns all new, were installed and dumped after that by American in the sea.
So which business is better?
Heh. Stupidity *IS* international. At least, we are not talking about 50 thousand of those.
Yeah that fit the description of how American do things pointless and random.
pretty amazing that there are no references anywhere to more than 2 M60 tanks being put into the ocean
but don’t let that impede your anti-american propaganda efforts
On the contrary. Anything dumped into the sea for use as a reef has to be stripped of anything considered hazardous or a pollutant. The preparation of the USS Oriskany is a well documented example.
Be sure, that maybe only 0,5% of all expired tanks are crushed like this, the rest is sold through many intermidiaries to some dictators.
Gay sex in a tank, thats is great!
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Very good idea to confuse the enemy.
This could also be used in the car industry. Cars are built in the factory and then shiped by train (eco friendly) to the dismantling factory where the parts are packed and shipped by train back to the first build factory.
They don’t export these to the highest bidder anymore?
Retards, they can sell it to poor African and Asian countries that don’t understand the term “expired”
You actually can’t sell some of the older types. Not the t 55s at least. Even if you try to modernize it, it still does not have compound armor, nor does it have dynamic defense as a standard. Most modern day RPGs can destroy them. Who would want to buy a worthless tractor with a bunch of extra steel welded on, if it gets destroyed within 5 minutes? Of course, it CAN be used to chase the cannibalistic tribes away, but who knows, what if they have RPGs or anti tank guided missles? Those things are almost as common as chinese-made ak 47s nowadays.
If any tanks (of the old kind) still have any export potential, then it would be the t 62 with the smallest (still monolithic armor), t 64 (expensive to maintain, more like an expensive toy than a real tank) t 72 (which alot of countries have (mostly the oldest variants), and to some degree the t 80. BTW, this IS capitalism, and why just give it to the african nations?
Poor soldiers these tanks will be the only thing they get trained with, their role will be very important on the battlefield as they charge at enemy tanks with some crowbar, hammers and wrenches with the intention of trying to take them apart.
Can someone explain, WHY and what “expires” in those tanks?
Is there some kind of agreement to destroy those tanks or
what? Selling to dictatorships is not good, but why not disassembe them and sell as parts? Certainly lot of parts (engines, etc) can be used peacfully, and be useful to russian economy?
These are T-64s, about 11000 were build during the 60s-70s. Never exported by the USSR, the only combats that they were was in Moldova in 1992 and the Chechen Wars. They are way more advanced than the T-72s, in fact, the T-72 was developed because these were too expensive.
The Russian government could make a little extra $$$ buy selling these two private collectors.
absolutely!
I heard Kim Jong-il is an avid collector of old soviet military equipment.
Why would the army destroy new tanks?
‘Expired’? You probably meant ‘obsolete’!
Actually, they’re not new tanks at all but old T-64B produced up until T-80 appeared, although they were sophisticated tanks when they first appeared, they have been in service for more than 35-40 years and are outdated, not expired! As for cost considerations, keeping them in service with trained personals is very expensive; tanks are real fuel gobblers, up to 4 litres a kilometre, not an average car. Destroying them might have been the most cost efficient method of disposal, especially with soldiers.
at least, these should be donated to hezbolah
Yes, donate them to Hezbolah. Or better yet, to the American militias, for use in the very soon coming 2nd American civil war against the Feds.
Also agree these could have been sold to collectors, etc. Heck, the Russian military could make additional money by selling parts and repair assistance, through manuals or maybe online.
These vehicles could easily be upgraded to T-80 or a T-90 package.
i suspect the description ins confusing. “All the tanks are new, just from the warehouse.” does not mean they were just produced, look how rusty-dusty they are. Might be a facility in Ukraine where they build APCs out of old t64
No goverment is that stupid to destroy military equipment if there was a slight chance to make money on it. I amnot sure what it is, but i am sure there has to be a perfect reason to destroy these tanks. Upkeep of this equipment is very costly. Russia doesn’t need that many tanks at all. It can’t wage a long and invasive action and to defend itself it has plenty left. It’s the money that russia does not have enough of and as evidence, it is cutting the military cost.
Nice! comments, I work for the USG at a T-72 BMP tank Depot in Irag,It was just proven that 350mil to sart up this depot was nothing (and we still haven’t got One Tank rebuilt yet). Due to Class IX parts that can not be procured and Technical Manuals you can not get and owe should least not forget this is for the Iraqis Tank Divisions that were destroyed during the Gulf War and Desert Storm THAT THE IRAQIS Are LAZY PEOPLE!!
Are you kidding me? Here in America I’d pay 20 thousand dollars for one of those vehicles. They’re pissing away thousands of rubles. Tanks don’t have an expiration date, they just become obsolete unless upgraded.