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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWait five minutes and Ukrainian farmer will show up with his tractor
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Wait five minutes and Ukrainian farmer will show up with his tractor (Original Post)
Swede
Mar 2022
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paleotn
(17,931 posts)1. Kick it out of gear and haul it away...
T-80's just sitting on the road abandoned. Where are their crews? Looking for a service station? What a bizarre way to run a war. The Russian military is a bad joke. It's a mob with matching uniforms.
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)3. They make nice chicken coops, I hear nt
stumpysbear
(138 posts)4. That thing looks like shit
Rusted, broken down piece of junk. No money for maintenance as it was all skimmed off the top. No wonder Russian army morale is low.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)5. Welcome to DU!
All their equipment, the heavy stuff in particular, looks like they raided some bone yard from a war twenty years ago.
underpants
(182,829 posts)6. Quick search and read - it could very well be 30 years old
It looks like the T80s for the most part werent produced after the fall of the USSR. At least thats my quick read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-80
NickB79
(19,253 posts)7. Tank and artillery shells make great IED's
The Iraqis figured that out really fast.
The UKR resistance must have thousands of shells by now from all the captured vehicles