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2023-03-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief March 25th (updated)

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Posted by badanov 2023-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Reported as WWII vehicles in Russia moving towards Ukraine

American Lend-Lease?

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-26 00:50|| 2023-03-26 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Lend Lease? Possibly my father’s signature is still somewhere on the original paperwork translations.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-26 01:17|| 2023-03-26 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Those ain't Lend Lease trucks, WWII vintage to be sure, but not American made.

ZIS trucks.

Posted by badanov 2023-03-26 01:47|| 2023-03-26 01:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks. The trucks looked suspiciously like wartime GMC 2.5 ton trucks w/ the rectangular cab.

Delving further, the ZIS-5 was not based on the previous AMO-3 designed two years previously, but on the American Autocar Model CA, faithfully copied under licence.

Also: According to Soviet registers, the most produced trucks in USSR ever was the GAZ MM (419,812), a derivative of the Ford built in USSR.

Two trucks really made the bread and butter of motorized units on the eastern front during WW2: The ZIS-5 and GAZ AA/AAA/MM. Together they represented a total of 1,400 000 light utility trucks. They represented together about 50% of the trucks produced in USSR and used by Soviet troops.
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Unless this is disinformation, it is incredible that WW2 era trucks with Katusha launchers and towing 85mm antitank guns are seen outside of Victory Day reenactments. Goes with reactivating T-54 and T-55 tanks while Russian leadership brags of producing 1600 new tanks this year while real capability is 20 or less a month and that is without modern optics and fire control systems that are embargoed by the West. Kim Jong-un is cringing.

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-26 06:40|| 2023-03-26 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks FC. I'm going with the re-enactment vehicle theory. Tires and fuel pump availability might soon be limiting factors.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-26 06:47|| 2023-03-26 06:47|| Front Page Top

#6 ∆∆ There's always Dorman chinesium aftermarket for those, B.

Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2023-03-26 07:11|| 2023-03-26 07:11|| Front Page Top

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