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You might say their victory parade tanked.
Even before Ukraine they would have the big expensive stuff go through more than once so it looked like they had more of it.
Russians who believe the Kremlin right now:
Why so little? Is it not even more relevant now we are fighting Nazi’s in Ukraine again?
To be fair, I think most of their weapons are currently preoccupied…
Conservative estimates say around 3,000 Russian tanks and 6,500 APVs have been destroyed in Russia. So when the Ruzzian apologists come in saying things like “well their tanks are in Ukraine…” you will know exactly who they are.
Ironic to celebrate this while they are behaving like Nazis, annexing their neighbors and committing genocide while doing so.
‘You’re all we have left, you will shine on our parade like never before comrade T-34’
The rest of their hardware is getting blown up in Ukraine
At least it was fitted with ALL the flags.
Guess you missed one, Ukraine. You gonna blow this one up or take it for yourselves? I would genuinely lmao if we could get photos of this exact tank blown to smithereens.
How to avoid a coup 101 don’t bring heavy weapons into your capitol region.
The little T34 that could
Should be renamed to Loser Parade
r/therewasanattempt of a victory parade
Can’t even call that a proper parade
Pathetic parade for a terrorist state.
Notice the lack of actual soldiers too – those are kids and cadets in costumes.
That one tank was actually en route to the front line as well, but they decided to send it the long route and call it a parade.
Ukrainian Farmers be rubbing their hands tho…
Just give it a couple of days.
Some Russian general will claim that there were 100s of tanks during the parade. You just couldn’t see it because of Russian top of the line, state of the art, vodka powered invisible camouflage.
Tremble before the might of the (ex) soviet army!
I’m getting “fuck it. At least I’m not in Ukraine energy from the tank commander.”
Wait, they still have one left?!?!
Guess the Ukrainian farmers couldn’t make the tank parade
Poor guy pedaling that thing as hard as he can. He had to do the engine noises with his mouth.
A SAD parade
I think most of Putin’s military got all blowed up. 😁
Putin is leaving one heck of a legacy. Probably not the one he wanted though.
I thought they have almost unlimited supply?
I mean this comment with the greatest of respect for Russia, but what a fucking shithole of a country. Shitty history, shitty present day, and my god their future is bleak. It’s like Russian people prefer it.
Hilarious.
It does make one wonder when the Ruzzian population are finally going to suss that something isn’t quite right.
Whole towns devoid of fighting age men, either dead in Ukraine or hiding in Europe or Asia.
Shops empty, rumours circulating like crazy about the ‘spezial military operation’.
And now this, a single tank, a few soldiers and Pootin banging on about the ‘real war’ with the West.
Surely they can’t be that *stupid* can they? 😳
That’s what you get when you let oligarch war hawks sell your equipment to 3rd world countries.
Now that’s a sweet tank. The T-34 was an absolute game changer that helped turn the tide of WWII.
Despite the fact that a lot of the equipment was unreliable due to low quality manufacturing that comes with constantly moving factories and high casualties meant constantly using fresh inexperienced troops, the sheer number of these they could put in the field offset any of those faults.
Using a thicker, rolled and angled armor made it very resilient to most anti-tank guns. By angling the armor, this causes more incoming shots to ricochet instead of penetrating. Plus with a strong engine & much thicker track base, this allowed them to attain a fast cross country speed and ability to traverse Russian territory with ease (this ass mud in the spring and fall months). And with a durable, cheap, & easy to produce design. That meant they could churn these bad boys out like no tomorrow.
Since the Germans were over extended in terms of supply lines, this made ammo and anti-take weapon supply a constant concern. So even when you have a bunch of these charging across open territory with inexperienced crews against veteran German troops, Germans could inflict massive losses, but their sheer numbers meant that the Germans couldn’t stop them all. Plus, they were a massive moral boost to the troops. Suddenly, charging the machine guns in a mass attack seems a lot less scary when you have a 100 of these bad boys show up to back you up (even if half of them get blown to shit).
All in all, even with its serious technical downsides, T-34 made up for its short comings with overwhelming numbers (and an upgraded cannon halfway thru the war doesn’t hurt either.
Durable, cheap, decent mileage, broken electronics, and an engine that kept on chugging are all reasons why the T-34 is the 1992 Toyota Camry of the world of tanks.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Second greatest army in the world /s
“You can have your tank parade when you finish all of the Bakhmut on your plate.” ~Motherland