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Stolen from monument, put back into service
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Posted: Thursday, February 02, 2017 - 06:36 PM UTC
Good old Soviet engineering...(sorry if it has been posted before).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657083/If-good-Red-Army-Viral-video-WWII-tank-started-inspires-pro-Russian-rebels-raid-MUSEUMS-Ukraine.html

After seizing the tank by Ukrainian governmental forces.















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Posted: Thursday, February 02, 2017 - 07:12 PM UTC
Just the same with a T-34-85 (put back into service by the separatists)...





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fe4YI2N4ME

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ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Thursday, February 02, 2017 - 07:27 PM UTC
Mad Hungarian monument T-34 on the loose during the 2006 Budapest riots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohz9NzpkrQ8
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Posted: Monday, February 06, 2017 - 02:52 PM UTC
Yep,Star-Decals has had a sheet out for quite some time with this almost infamous tank.
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Posted: Monday, February 06, 2017 - 11:09 PM UTC
Soviet technology amazes me, after spending decades out in the enviroment a few men with simple tools can rock up and drive them away.

I would imagine that these tanks are deathtraps though against modern antitank missiles
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 12:05 AM UTC
How long was that T-34 sitting as monument before being brought back to life? I would've thought the engines (and anything else that should move) would've been seized up (or rusted) years ago with them presumably just dumped as-is as as a monument, or even under 1" thick coat of slopped on paint.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 01:27 AM UTC
Not only are many Soviet tank monuments nearly operable, I heard in one case a JS-2 actually had oil and fuel and a couple of vandals were able to crank start one on its plinth, after it's been on the plinth for about 15 years.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 04:19 AM UTC
One of the MVPA (Military Vehicle Preservation Association) members in the US has collected a dozen or so old WWII Army trucks abandoned in the desert of Idaho. He gets them running as found and drives them home, usually just adding fuel, oil, water and tires as required. Some were pretty iffy on the roads, but he's in a rural area.

As long as nothing gets into the engines or drive mechanisms, they should get going with a bit of effort. Bringing back the sounds of the past.

All that old iron from WWII didn't have all that fancy electronic junk to fool with.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 04:35 AM UTC
There is a YouTube film of a SU 152 being brought back to life after sitting in a field for 70 years.

You can also Google images of an SU 100 still in active service in Yemen civil war
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 04:05 PM UTC

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There is a YouTube film of a SU 152 being brought back to life after sitting in a field for 70 years.

You can also Google images of an SU 100 still in active service in Yemen civil war


updating my own post:

found this on the net, apparently in Yemen they are using an old WW2 Russian SU100, 70 years after the end of the second world war.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=su+100+in+yemen&espv=2&biw=1164&bih=768&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFmMrA_P3RAhVFLMAKHRAHCGkQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1.1#imgrc=xHTSGj9xHeE1_M:
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 04:21 PM UTC
Actually it's a Czech SD-100 produced between '53-'57. Around 60 years old, most impressive...



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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 04:24 PM UTC
I read the other day that Masud's forces in Afghanistan, around the time the Soviets were pulling out, took a T-62 off a plinth (not sure were exactly) that had been on display- some fluids and a battery was all that was needed before they drove it off.
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 04:35 PM UTC
Logistics must be a real bi#$%...

WWII weapons in Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ08aPtFXDA

WWII weapons in Syria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErsZx5Z1qw

WWII weapons in Libya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2buvCQBZAJI

WWII tanks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BknYe2V1E20
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 01:20 AM UTC

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Actually it's a Czech SD-100 produced between '53-'57. Around 60 years old, most impressive...



I'm not familiar with these vehicles, could you clarify the exterior difference for me please
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 01:37 AM UTC
For one thing it has the star-type wheels as seen on the T-54/55.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 09:40 AM UTC

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Not only are many Soviet tank monuments nearly operable, I heard in one case a JS-2 actually had oil and fuel and a couple of vandals were able to crank start one on its plinth, after it's been on the plinth for about 15 years.


The communities in which the tank monuments are located were supposed to maintain the tanks so that they could quickly be returned to service if the Soviet Union was invaded.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 12:54 PM UTC

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I'm not familiar with these vehicles, could you clarify the exterior difference for me please


Functionally identical, but the build quality was much better.

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