In a recent intelligence update, the UK Ministry of Defense confirmed that Russia has been using “vintage” tanks in response to “heavy armored vehicle losses.” The old tanks were taken out of storage last summer, around the time Russian forces suffered a series of defeats in Ukraine. The outmoded tanks are fitted with new engines, controls and communication systems. Workers at the 103rd Armored Tank Repair Plant are tasked with retrofitting 800 crumbling Soviet-era T-62s due to Russia’s severe tank shortage.

The elected official added that the revamped tanks are being shipped out to the battlefields in Ukraine. “Now it’s a totally different tank that can work,” Guruvel boasted. A fully revamped T-62M dating back more than 50 years is seen after an overhaul.Īccording to the pro-Putin politician, the “ancient” tanks arriving at the facility “looking worse for wear” are being fully overhauled, from their engines to their communication systems and controls. Guruvel says in the footage that the personnel at the 103rd Armored Tank Repair Plant are working around the clock “to transform tanks that are more than 50 years old into modern normal machines capable of carrying out objectives and meet challenges on the front lines.” A repair facility near Chita, Russia, has been working around the clock to modernize hundreds of rusted-out T-62M tanks for the war effort. The video posted by Gurulev on his Telegram channel shows factory workers fixing up rusted-out battle tanks dating back to the times of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Russian President Vladimir Putin has resorted to retrofitting hundreds of decades-old Soviet tanks to be battle-ready - as the country’s stockpile of modern tanks dwindles.Īndrey Gurulev, a member of the Russian parliament, released a video Saturday showing his recent visit to a repair plant outside the remote city of Chita that has been tasked with modernizing 800 obsolete T-62M tanks, reported the Russian outlet. Russian general says Eastern Europe is next, reminding us why we need to back UkraineĪ mindless Airbnb nix, Pelosi’s gift to the GOP and other commentaryĮlon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson forced to ‘clarify’ book’s account of Starlink incident in Ukraine War Met opera singer Ying Fang faces death threats after being mistaken for another soprano who sang Soviet anthem in Ukraine

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