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Dozens of abandoned T80 tanks found in forest; unguarded,in Russia
Topic Started: Feb 28 2010, 02:45 AM (591 Views)
MSantor
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That is a lot of MBTs left just lying around. :wow:

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Feb 27, 2010 Abandoned Russian tanks
MOSCOW - SOME Russians were amazed to discover dozens of T-80 battle tanks seemingly abandoned in a forest, but army officials insisted there was nothing unusual about it.
The tanks - nearly 100 in all - were found near the Elanovskaya railroad station about 100km outside the Urals Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, the Kommersant daily reported on Saturday.


Their presence was revealed after a local news website posted a video of the tanks, covered in a deep layer of snow and resting peacefully between the railroad and the woods with no military personnel in sight. 'There are tanks all over the forest, abandoned. If you need one, come and get it,' an unnamed person behind the camera says in the video posted on E1.ru, as the camera spins around to show dozens of unguarded tanks.
A spokesman for the Volga-Urals Military District, the branch of the Russian army which oversees the area, said the tanks were being transported to a storage site aa part of a routine logistical operation.
'Work on their transport to the storage base is going according to plan. All the vehicles are under guard by military patrols consisting of officers and soldiers,' the spokesman, Dmitry Burdakov, told Kommersant.
'It is entirely possible they could have been filmed on video. This is not a military secret, and placing a guard next to each vehicle is impossible.' -- AFP


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Nice the Philippine Army should convince our DND Secretary to buy these T80 MBTs, though these things are just sitting outside forest near the railroad tracks anyway.. :armysmile:
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