{"id":50908,"date":"2023-03-22T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50908"},"modified":"2025-03-22T00:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:04:16","slug":"the-images-of-the-mobilization-by-russia-of-tanks-t-54-and-t-55-of-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/22\/the-images-of-the-mobilization-by-russia-of-tanks-t-54-and-t-55-of-the-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"The images of the mobilization by Russia of tanks T-54 and T-55 of the 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy tank losses by the Russian Army in the Ukraine may be forcing it to draw ever older tanks from its stores.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/01\/russian-losses-in-ukraine-already-exceed-6000-vehicles-these-are-the-most-damaged\/\">Russian losses in Ukraine already exceed 6,000 vehicles: these are the most damaged<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/23\/the-russian-and-ukrainian-tank-losses-compared-to-their-pre-invasion-forces\/\">The Russian and Ukrainian tank losses compared to their pre-invasion forces<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/04\/the-antiquated-t-62-tanks-that-the-russian-army-is-abandoning-on-the-kherson-front\/\">the sending of the already obsolete T-62 to the Kherson front<\/a> in October 2022, now Russia would be taking a new step by resorting to more outdated tanks, specifically <strong>tanks T-54 and T-55 from the 1950s<\/strong>. A video posted Wednesday by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/200_zoka\/status\/1638482998755569664\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Russian Twitter account<\/a> shows <strong> such tanks being transported on a train, possibly from their warehouses in eastern Russia<\/strong> and bound for the front lines in Ukraine. The original video was published in vertical format, I have rotated it 270\u00ba to make it look better:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"T-54\/55 en Rusia (2023)\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYxHSFaix9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About the date these images were taken, that Russian account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/200_zoka\/status\/1638484081166917634\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has pointed out<\/a> that several of the <strong>flatcars that transport the tanks are dated 2022<\/strong>, so they are new wagons (in fact, the signs are as if freshly painted and with hardly any traces of dirt, as would happen with an older wagon).<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52764882959_f05745a61f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A capture of the video in which we see the date 14.10.22 on one of the flat wagons, indicating the wagon's manufacturing date.<\/div>\n<p>Before that video was released, a Russian OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) group, <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.citeam.org\/t-54\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), published a detailed report yesterday<\/a> showing <strong>photos of T-54 and T-55 tanks being transported by train<\/strong>. Those photos seem to correspond to the train we saw in the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52765125208_c96ab196ee_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">T-54 and T-55 tanks being transported on a train, with the turrets turned back, just as these tanks are kept when they are stored (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.citeam.org\/t-54\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conflict Intelligence Team<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><em>\"The CIT team has obtained photographs of <strong>a train transporting military vehicles from Russia\u2019s Far East. We identified the vehicles as Soviet-era T-54\/55 series tanks:<\/strong> T-54s as well as tanks which may be either late T-54 or T-55 tanks were both on that train\"<\/em>, the aforementioned Russian OSINT group points out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52764099212_e7eeb8ea7c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A T-54B modernized from a T-54 M1951, in one of the photos released yesterday (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.citeam.org\/t-54\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conflict Intelligence Team<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The Russian OSINT group adds: <em>\"<strong>the filmed train has recently departed from the town of Arsenyev, Primorsky<\/strong>\"<\/em>, a region of eastern Russia that borders North Korea and China. Conflict Intelligence Team notes that the 1295 Central Tank Storage and Repair Base is located there. <em>\"<strong>We had already documented shipments of military vehicles from that base:<\/strong> for example, in October, in Yekaterinburg, a train carrying T-62M(V) tanks was captured on video, and the point of departure of the train was also Arsenyev. Note that deployment and use of T-62 tanks by the Russian Armed Forces during the current invasion has been documented since the summer of 2022, but <strong>it is the first recorded instance of T-54\/55 tanks withdrawal from storage.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52765047360_7d6fe44376_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Another T-54B on the train that transported these old tanks from their warehouses in the Russian Far East (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.citeam.org\/t-54\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conflict Intelligence Team<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><em>\"<strong>We examined publicly available archive photographs of the 1295th Base<\/strong> and found out that, in addition to relatively modern T-80BV and T-72B tanks, it also stored a significant amount of T-62M(V) tanks. <strong>We also managed to find photographs of the T-55 and T-54 tanks<\/strong>\"<\/em>, they point out from CIT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52764892709_e4e1fb759c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Another T-54B in the photos released by the Russian OSINT group (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.citeam.org\/t-54\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conflict Intelligence Team<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>CIT also indicates the following: <em>\"<strong>we analyzed satellite images of the 1295th Base and established that between June and November 2022, at least 191 tanks had left the base<\/strong> (most likely T-62s). In reality, this number can be much higher, since the most combat-ready vehicles, as a rule, are stored in special hangars, and it is impossible to spot their shipment based on satellite imagery.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52764099112_58b007c725_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A T-55 at the Russian army storage base in Arsenyev, in 2011 (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/i5cJl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Burnashev<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>CIT recalls that <em>\"the earliest T-54 series tanks were adopted by the Soviet Army back in the mid-to-late 1940s<\/strong>, and the T-55 series entered service in 1958\"<\/em>, noting that <em>\"even an outdated tank is more useful than no tank at all, but we consider <strong>the lack of rangefinders and ballistic computers<\/strong> (not to mention fire control systems) <strong>to be the key disadvantages of these series<\/strong>, as well as primitive sights and (in T-54s) an inferior gun stabilization system.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52764954699_9b93843556_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A T-54 at the Russian army storage base in Arsenyev, in 2010 (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/Bn8AK\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ankovyye voyska TSBRT v\/ch 42718<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>\"We find it difficult to determine the possible uses of these tanks\"<\/em>, the Russian OSINT group acknowledges <\/strong>, <em>\"but in any case, along with the removal of BTR-50 armored personnel carriers from storage and the modification of MT-LB multi-purpose AFVs with naval anti-aircraft guns, <strong>this clearly indicates severe issues with military vehicle supply in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy tank losses by the Russian Army in the Ukraine may be forcing it to draw ever older tanks from its stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[18805,10731,12043,16153,16866,15349,16085],"class_list":["post-50908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-conflict-intelligence-team-cit","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-t-54","tag-t-55","tag-t-62"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 11:30:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}