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Tracking Russian military storage depots, mainly AFVs
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May 6 • 28 tweets • 9 min read
1/ Thread about my estimations on what currently remains in Russian storage. Consider that even the most recent footage from @Vishun_military is already 2-4 months old, and almost everything else is far older. Image 2/ Here you have my most recent AFV count: Image
May 4 • 44 tweets • 19 min read
1/ It's time to show the rest of BMPs and BTRs left in Russian storage. Here's my final thread on AFV counts. Image 2/ Here you have the numbers at the remaining storage bases storing BMPs and BTRs which I haven't covered until now, with outdated dates in orange. First BMPs:
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May 2 • 50 tweets • 22 min read
1/ Updated 2024 BTRZ count and analysis. This time with actual updated footage thanks to @Vishun_military and @waffentraeger. Image 2/ First of all here are the updated numbers of all BTRZs, plus the main Russian armor factories: Image
Apr 28 • 41 tweets • 18 min read
1/ Analysis on @Vishun_military footage of the 22nd, 227th/769th, 1295th, 111th, 1311th, 3018th/6018th and 2544th Russian storage bases. Image 2/ Here you have the numbers of all bases and the comparison with the prewar numbers @HighMarsed and I counted. First, BMPs: Image
Apr 27 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
1/ Time for the last of my individual AFV counts for now. This time is the BRDM-2, the obsolete Soviet armored scout car. Image 2/ Here are the numbers from prewar and latest footage of BRDM-2s in Russian storage by @HighMarsed and me: 1300 vehicles in 2021 and 1188 nowadays, including 251 visibly broken ones.

I had to split the table in two screenshots because otherwise it wouldn't fit. Specially old footage is marked in orange, as usual.Image
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Apr 27 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
1/ Updated MT-LBu count. There haven't been a lot of movement of MT-LBus in storage, but still, let's see how things have changed since 2021. Image 2/ First, numbers from prewar and recent footage. @HighMarsed and I found 1229 stored MT-LBs before the war, and now there are 1053, so at least 176 have been removed from military storage bases. As usual, especially old footage dates is marked in orange. Image
Apr 26 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
1/ Updated BTR-50 count. This thread is gonna be very short, as there were never many BTR-50s in storage in the first place, but it is what it is. Image 2/ First, here you have the prewar and current count. As you can see I eventually found some extra stored BTR-50s during prewar times compared to the original count made by myself and @HighMarsed: 125 BTR-50s in total. By now only 50 remain, less than half, and probably all of them broken and unparable husks.Image
Apr 26 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Updated BMD count. Let's how the Russian airborne IFVs in storage are looking after more than two years of peer warfare. Image 2/ First, the actual figures. After recounting prewar stocks, @HighMarsed and I found 637 BMDs or BMD-based support vehicles in Russian military depots. Now the number has been reduced to just 244 units, just over a third of the initial number, of which at least 58 are not actual combat vehicles.Image
Apr 25 • 28 tweets • 10 min read
1/ It's finally time to publish some actual figures from the updated AFV count made by @HighMarsed and myself. First thread is on MT-LBs, the humble workhorse of the Russian military, and how it's close to storage depletion. Image 2/ First of all, here are the prewar numbers, including MT-LBs, in Russian storage. As you can see, after a second recount of prewar storage we found 2,461 MT-LBs in storage:
Apr 22 • 34 tweets • 13 min read
1/ On sheds, scrapyards and parking lots: short thread on some caveats about Russian military storage bases. Image 2/ I mentioned a while ago that I was planning a thread on these topics, and finally it's here. This is mostly about explaining some interesting subjects about Russian stored equipment and how it can help unsolve part of the mistery of how much more potential equipment remains there.
Apr 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Before starting a newer count I decided to review the current one, because I was unsure about some BTR identifications. I decided to try Yandex. Alas, idk why I didn't use it before, there's so much newer footage there. For example, the 4990th. Before the war there were over 600 MT-LBs, and we didn't get newer footage from that one in all these two years on Google Earth. But take a look at Yandex, just 91 MT-LBs remained there a while ago, three of them visibly broken hulls. Image
Apr 7 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
1/ At long last, here's the updated 2023 BTRZ count. Before diving into this, I wanna note that most of the BTRZs only have 2022 footage, and in the case of the 163rd, no footage at all after 2021. Anyway, here's the table, with as many details as possible to give you guys the most accurate data (including counting ARVs, which I didn't the previous time):Image 2/ Here's the prewar BTRZ count I did with @HighMarsed as a comparison:
Apr 7 • 26 tweets • 11 min read
1/ I've been asked several times since I started writing threads on the updated AFV counts if any Russian storage base has been depleted of equipment. Well, it's not that simple, but I figured it's worth writing a short thread about it. 2/ Of the major Russian military storage bases, only the 1295th is close to being emptied out, like I explained here:
Mar 29 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It's actually pretty fun seeing all those people joke about Russian T-34s eventually being deployed to Ukraine, when in reality Ukraine is the one that still has T-34s stored at some military facitilies.

See here, pics from the Kyiv BTRZ taken in 2019. Image On the other hand, Russia did indeed had a considerable amount of T-34s and other ancient armor stored at some places, but in the early 2010s they decided to scrap or donate them to museums.


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Mar 17 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
1/ As promised, here's a final thread on some cavets on stored AFVs. I mainly want to talk about specialized BTR and BMP vehicles and AFVs that will never see the frontline and shouldn't really be taken into account. 2/ So, first let's talk about BTRs and BMPs. When I wrote my thread on MT-LBus I said that most likely all of them are non-combat variants. One key thing to notice that is that they're all stored at artillery arsenals
Mar 17 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
1/ Last thread on Russian AFVs in storage. As you all can guess, the final thread is on BMPs. Image 2/ @HighMarsed and I found 5,766 BMPs of all kinds in storage before the war
Mar 16 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Now it's time for one of the two last major AFV threads: let's dicuss stored Russia BTR-60/70/80s. Image 2/ @HighMarsed and I counted 3,194* BTRs in storage
Mar 10 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Therad on stored MT-LBus in Russia. Image 2/ We found 1,210* MT-LBus in storage before the war. Now, MT-LBus in storage seem to be all specialized vehicles, mostly artillery support ones, but also radar and communication stations, C&C mobile posts...
Mar 5 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Prewar AFV and tank count of Russian BTRZs (BTRZ stands for Armor Repair Plant) in collaboration with @HighMarsed. Before diving into the count, BTRZs aren't actual storage facilities, but factories where equipment previously in storage is set to be refurbished for service. Image 2/ However, as seen by comparing satellite images from different years, several of the biggest BTRZs do in fact serve as storage bases, with dozens or even hundreds of armored vehicles not moved for years from their yards.