Armor: What’s Old is New Again
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February 20, 2024: A picture of a Russian T-64 tank in Ukraine recently appeared. The tank's identification number, 320, was clearly visible. An astute reader noted that there was also a T-64 tank seen in Hungary after the brief but violent 1956 rebellion against Soviet Russian domination and occupation. T-62s and similar T-64s entered service in the early 1960s and some eventually joined the Russian tank units occupying Hungary. One of those T-64s featured an ID number of 320 on the side of the turret. In 2023 Russia lost so many tanks during the initial months fighting Ukrainians that they had to obtain older tanks from long-term storage sites in Russia. Many of these tanks were T-62s and T-64s. One of those T-64s had the id number 320 on its turret and looked remarkably like the relatively new T-64 seen in old (1960s era) photos of Russian tanks belonging to the occupation forces in Hungary.
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In 1990 Russian agreed to withdraw their armed forces from Eastern Europe and the Cold War ended. The T-64 number 320 had already retired and most of the Russian tanks in Eastern Europe were T-72s.
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Zim: Like I think I said before, Russia lost so many front line tanks . . . they are reduced to pulling out old cold war leftovers.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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