Russian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

no, I read your Gerasimov quote, as the first above quote, where it says, "In Total",,,,, so just more Russian word games, how many tanks do they have, real world best guess??

 

nah LOL I guess every body with a partial knowledge of the English language, like me, could see the sentence from Friday at 2:42 PM

"#Gerasimov: In total, 297,000 servicemen will take part in maneuvers #Vostok2018, more than 1,000 aircrafts, helicopters and UAV, up to 36,000 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles, up to 80 ships and support vessels will be involved"

might look like this:

"#Gerasimov: In total, 297,000 servicemen will take part in maneuvers #Vostok2018, more than 1,000 aircrafts, helicopters and UAV, up to 36,000 vehicles including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and armored personnel carriers and other vehicles, up to 80 ships and support vessels will be involved"

I underlined/stricken what I added/took out

see? 100% knowledge of the language doesn't help LOL

I briefly used google to find

COMBAT TANKS: 20,300
Russia Military Strength https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=russia

no idea how credible this is

Brother check my new G-Shock on Facebook anyway, LOL

 

G-Shock is a watch right, I'll check it out, as all my Wengers, Casio's, Seiko, are dead and gone, I have a cheap Pulsar which made its way from across the pond to me... its cheap, not KOOL!

so 20,000 tanks huh?? maybe we do need the A-10?? LOL

 

in the meantime I recalled what Guderian had written (if I'm not mistaken) in Achtung: Panzer!

which was an estimate (1937) of the number of Soviet tanks, 17k (again, if I'm not mistaken),

and OKW etc. of course didn't believe this (they thought it was like half of that number)

to later realize Guderian was wrong by UNDERestimating that number (in fact was 20k or so)

 

live coverage

http://mil.ru/files/files/streem.html

 

Tsugol training ground long before massive tank attack
operation "Tulip" 1962
a very special event

 

impressive (even by my standards hahaha) footage of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-27_Uragan firing during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_2018

 

https://www.defensenews.com/global/...ages-a-different-view-of-russias-vostok-2018/

 

satellite images available in "dambiev" blog
etc.: https://dambiev.livejournal.com/1283808.html

 

what caught my interest now was an ASW drill apparently of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_destroyer_Vice-Admiral_Kulakov
(if the didn't work on tactical numbers hahaha)
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