200 Russian tanks found abandoned in forest
The Russian army is embroiled in an embarrassing scandal after 200 of its tanks were found abandoned near a forest in central Russia, unguarded and unlocked.
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 2:18PM GMT 28 Feb 2010
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Russian tanks abandoned in a Russian forest
The tanks have been sitting in the forest for almost four months covered in snow Photo: LIFE NEWS
A news website near the city of Yekaterinburg posted a video of the forgotten tanks showing passers-by clambering inside the vehicles and playing with empty ammunition belts. The only items that seemed to be missing were live rounds and the keys to the tanks' ignitions.
"There are tanks all over the forest, abandoned," an unnamed reporter on the video says. "If you need one, come and get it."
Locals in a nearby village said the tanks had been sitting there for almost four months covered in snow. The armoured vehicles were identified as a mixture of T-80 and T-72 battle tanks, the workhorses of the Russian army.
"We were shocked," Pavel L, a local, told Russian media. "It is like you can sit behind the wheel, start up the engine and drive off and nobody would notice!"
A military spokesman claimed the tanks were in fact being guarded by special patrols and were in the process of being dispatched to a military base. But military prosecutors appeared sceptical about his claims and opened an official investigation. Wary of further bad publicity, the army has urgently begun relocating the tanks.
The scandal comes days after one of Russia's top military commanders suggested the country did not need half of its 20,000 tanks and might scrap many older models. Tanks played an important role in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, with Russia capturing dozens of Georgian tanks in the short conflict.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7338097/200-Russian-tanks-found-abandoned-in-forest.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7338097/200-Russian-tanks-found-abandoned-in-forest.html)
Interesantan narod.
Quote from: Hate mail on March 01, 2010, 01:48:06 AM
The only items that seemed to be missing were live rounds and the keys to the tanks' ignitions.
Види се да човек зна о чему пише.
Keys... za divno cudo, ne znam kako pali tenk (too busy defending the ustavni poredak to bother). Kako pali tenk (T-72 recimo)?
Stvarno, nikad nisam o tome razmisljao. Verovatno mu ne treba kljuc, ko jos parkira tenak ispred birtije. Avioni uglavnom nemaju kljuc. Mislim na ove ozbiljne, velike putnicke.
Ajd ne zajebaji i ti. Nema "kljuceve" kao VW buba, that's for sure. Sigurno ima "kljuc" kao u gradjevinskih masina, recimo. Kuka jedna sto je part & parcel sa ostatkom kabine i sto se ne moze izneti. Znam jer sam palio bagere parkirane ispred moje zgrade kada je tzv. vlast (poslednji put, po svoj prilici) 1983. uredjivala ulice po Pancevu.
IMT 533 se palio na kljuc, pa sto ne bi i tenk.
Сигуран сам да то можете да изгуглате негде...
Zajebavas i ti matori, potuljeno...
http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/T72_tanks_for_sale_page.htm (http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/T72_tanks_for_sale_page.htm)
pazi ovi prodaju tenkove i u UK i SAD. Missim ja bi ga rado iznajmio na par dana da vidim face komsija kada se probude i na mom parkingu preg zgradom vide ovako nesto. Ili se dovezem na posao sa tako necim...
(pa da vidim kome ce oni kad bacim 'kljuceve' makine na sto i zatrazim povisicu da se vade na ekonomsku krizu :) )
:cry:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=759_1218951121 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=759_1218951121)
Ово није Т72.
Nije. Ali je sjajno kako pijani voze te masine po kucama.
"Јебо те ко ти даде дозволу!"
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Mislim da je bilo par emisija na Discovery o home made tenkovima. Nije zabranjeno, ljudi koji imaju, mogu, naprave tenak, pa ga vozaju okolo... bude to fina atrakcija na lokalnim auto paradama (kad se vikendom poredjaju ispred nekog restorana sve restaurirani i frizirani automobili, tenak obicno privuce svu paznju :| )
Ako T-72 ne privuce paznju nista nece.
Sad se setih iz Alo Alo serije, Lt. Gruber's little tink ... nije bio nista narocito.
Quote from: Tromotorac on March 02, 2010, 05:59:56 PM
Sad se setih iz Alo Alo serije, Lt. Gruber's little tink ... nije bio nista narocito.
:lol:
Quote from: Hate mail on March 02, 2010, 05:53:12 PM
Ako T-72 ne privuce paznju nista nece.
Нарочито ако пуцаш из њега.
http://www.realclearsports.com/articles/2010/03/03/russias_winter_games_of_discontent_96888.html (http://www.realclearsports.com/articles/2010/03/03/russias_winter_games_of_discontent_96888.html)
Russia's Winter Games of Discontent
By Cathy Young
Russia's biggest moment in the Olympic spotlight this year was also its most embarrassing: Figure skater Evgeni Plushenko's 'we wuz robbed' act after being awarded the silver medal in Vancouver. Plushenko, who won gold in the 2006 Turin Olympics, slammed this years gold medalist, American Evan Lysacek, as undeserving because he did not attempt a quadruple jump despite a widespread consensus among sports commentators that Lysacek's flawlessly performed program was superior in a number of ways.
Plushenko's unsportsmanlike petulance, backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, had a bizarre postscript: a television host at a Russian TV studio in Vancouver awarded the skater a platinum medal. The image of a medal with the words Platinum of Vancouver underneath then appeared on the home page of Plushenko's Web site, next to Gold from Turin and Silver from Salt Lake City, though, after public ridicule, all the labels were removed.
No fake medal can cover up Russias overall lackluster performance: 11th place in the overall medal tally and only three gold medals, a humiliating finish for a nation long accustomed to Olympic glory. Russian politicians and the press have been wringing their hands over this tragedy.
Speaking on national television, President Dmitry Medvedev declared that those responsible for the Russian team's Olympic training should make a "courageous decision" and hand in their resignations, or they would be helped along. Meanwhile, Russia's top sports officials are already blaming each other for the fiasco.
Russia's Olympic anxiety is exacerbated by the fact that in 2014, it hosts the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Touted as a source of great national pride, this upcoming event is also the source of many worries about Russia's ability to build the Olympic facilities on schedule, about the massive cost overruns, about the location's proximity to trouble spots in the Caucasus. To that, add anxieties about a possible major embarrassment for Russian athletes on their home turf.
Leonid Tyagachyov, head of the Russian Olympic Committee, resigned Wednesday. Sports minister Vitaly Mutko also reportedly already decided to step down from his post. But Mutko has made comments implying that the Russian team's showing in Sochi is unlikely to be better than this year's results. Upon his return from Vancouver, Mutko told journalists that grooming a new generation of Olympians is a task that has only just begun in post-Soviet Russia, and one that is likely to take six to eight years. When a major Russian newspaper, Moskovskiy Komsomolets, posted a poll on its Web site asking what could help Russia achieve victory in the 2014 Olympics, 49% of the respondents picked the answer: Nothing can help at this point.
Some commentators in Russia's still-flourishing independent press are looking to the Olympics for different lessons.
"I wish we held the coveted [11th] place in the world in at least one thing that really matters," journalist Leonid Radzikhovsky wrote in his blog on the Web site of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. "In life expectancy, for instance, or per capita income, or the levels of corruption No such luck! The best we can manage is No. 20 or even No. 70."
Radzikhovsky concludes that to build up big sports in a country with a pauperized population is criminal imperial frivolity, generally needed for the deception of these very same paupers. His sentiment is echoed by Moskovsky Komsomolet's columnist Alexander Minkin, who points out that Russia ranks 139th on some world indexes of democracy and is near the bottom of world rankings for rule of law.
Meanwhile, Boris Gryzlov, the chairman of the Russian parliament, has lamented the lack of victories in Vancouver, saying that if one were to speak of the Russian national ideal, it is, among other things, to be first, always and everywhere.
If athletics do represent the national spirit, then perhaps the Plushenko saga, with its grievances and delusions of grandeur, really does represent modern-day Russia in a nutshell.
Cathy Young writes a weekly column for RealClearPolitics and is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. She blogs at http://cathyyoung.wordpress.com/. (http://cathyyoung.wordpress.com/.) She can be reached at cyoung@realclearpolitics.com.
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QuotePlushenko's unsportsmanlike petulance, backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
:mrgreen:
Iz opusa "simpaticni divljaci"...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f81_1189773743 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f81_1189773743)
po cemu su ovo divljaci a "mishn akomplishd' nisu?
Pa ima crnaca pa nije zgodno...
Tenkovi su out.
Sad kad Guido išćera Amere sa sve bojevim nuklearnim naoružanjem iz Nemačke, možda pa'ne koja ICBM sa kamiona, pa da je postavim iza kuće u bašču.
Za dečicu, da se sigraju.