200 Russian tanks found abandoned in forest

[Capt Worley PE]

The Russian army is embroiled in an embarrassing scandal after 200 of its tanks were found abandoned near a forest in central Russia, unguarded and unlocked.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-in-forest.html

I wonder if the DMV would let me register a T-80.

 

[Flyer_PE]

Tags!? We don't need no stinking tags!

 

[wilheldp_PE]

I'm pretty sure if they were staring down the barrel of a 125mm smoothbore, they'd give you just about anything you asked for.

 

[NCcarguy]

I would like to think that would only happen in Russia, but sadly enough, I can see that happening here too.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I'm thinking someone backed out of an arms deal after the hardware was delivered.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-02-26/tanks-memory.html

A bunch of snow-covered tanks in Russia’s Urals region have been bewildering local residents for a few weeks.
About 200 abandoned armored vehicles, mostly Soviet-made T-72 tanks and tracked SP artillery mounts, are awaiting their fate at a small railway station near Ekaterinburg.

Locals say the tanks were brought there by a special train, unloaded and left unguarded since last November.

The hatches are not locked and anyone can get inside to feel like a real “tanky”: all the equipment aboard looks operational, except there is no ammunition.

Russian military officials deny the tanks were left unguarded.

The spokesperson for Urals' Military Command of the Russian Army, Dmitry Burdakov, said that the vehicles have not been forgotten and were stationed where they are on purpose while being relocated. He promised to complete the relocation by mid-March, saying that every tank will go under its own power to a central location.

 

[Kephart P.E.]

I would like to think that would only happen in Russia, but sadly enough, I can see that happening here too.

Maybe one or two, but 200? Only in Russia.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

And they've been sitting there since November! I'd have had a jolly old Christmas if I'd known earlier.

 

[NEED2009]

Is it still work?