Syrian government forces have captured a large ISIS tank workshop near the recently liberated town of Resafa in the province of Raqqah. Government troops have captured a notable number of battle tanks, buldozers and other equipment.
Some screenshots from the video showing the captured battle tanks, buldozers and artillery pieces:
They are in a fair state of disrepair but hopefully can be refurbished and given to NDF or Hez.
Why Hezb? Hezbollah is as strong as a regular army. They preserve good weapons!
I know Hez is primarily an Infantry based army and yes indeed they deserve good weapons to fight Israeli incursions but I see a few months ago they had a parade with armour that had been gifted them via Syria.
Although this might not be their core stength im sure even old T-55s can prove useful in certain circumstances especially when dealing with light terrorist groups in Syria rather than going toe to toe with Merkavas and Apache helicopers of the zionists.
I have seen photos with Hez units operating T-90s.
https://thesaker.is/special-report-hezbollahs-mechanized-battalion-in-syria/
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The tanks in the pictures are mainly T-54s and T-62s, and a few T-72s with reactive armor. No T-90s
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Seems to have a mechanical problem?
It had a TOW problem i think.,
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I don’t know much about tanks, but I do understand something about tractors,,, for me those machines don’t look like they are worth the working hours of a repair team, russia probably has thousands of those tanks in storage in much better shape than that, it might be possible to fix those tanks, but in my opinion they aren’t worth it unless you have no other choice but to deal with them(this was probably the case with ISIS), and even so it would take so much time to repair them that they would only be ready to work after the war is over…
They might have a lot of spare parts to fix other tanks though… and a lot of metal to melt, which is something syria probably needs a lot…
Agree, look like spare parts carcasses. Read a while ago that Turkish military engineers had been essential to northern militant’s refurbishment of damaged, abandoned and captured SAA tanks. Wonder how many other foreign military engineers are at work, or ex-military, on contract in Syria?
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