re: Russia taking 70 year old t-54/55 out of storage to the front

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You don’t even look up the credentials of the writer? Come on, man!

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The article is based on reports and videos coming from OSINT. This can be tricky because old footage has surfaced from time to time but usually gets sussed out fairly quickly. The corroborating evidence for the T-54/55s being brought online is Russian state TV openly discussing it. Solovyov, for example, discussed it on his morning show either yesterday or the day before.


As of yesterday morning, Oryx had documented via photographic or videographic evidence roughly 1900 Russian tanks destroyed, abandoned, or captured. IIRC the destroyed number was about 1,200. You can go to the site and each tank is identified by type if possible and the picture(s) and video(s) are available for you to peruse. Given the evidentiary bar they use the number of Russian tanks either combat ineffective or captured is very likely to be over 2,000. If you look at the video and stills from engagements like the Battle of Vuhledar where you could see over 30 dead tanks in one picture and the infamous crossroads where tank after tank ran into the minefield the numbers are not particularly surprising. Russian large equipment losses have been fairly well documented and logically the Oryx numbers should be on the low side.