It looks like Vladimir Putin is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for weapons to use in Ukraine.

New findings from the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) suggest that Russia has started shipping 75-year-old T-54 and T-55 tanks from storage bases in far-eastern Russia.

The tanks were first built in the 1940s shortly after World War 2, with the USSR churning out more than 100,000 of them in a decade.

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Pictures and videos from Russian social media show the tanks being moved by trains leaving the city of Arsenyev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link in Moscow on March 24, 2023. (Photo by Aleksey Babushkin / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by ALEKSEY BABUSHKIN/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Putin seems to be scraping the barrel when it comes to weapons

Experts are speculating that Russia is leaning back on its old military hardware after losing an estimated 2000 of its modern tanks in its war with Ukraine.

The T-54 and T-55 tanks reportedly don't have features considered basic in most tanks today, from rangefinders and sights to gun stabilisation and onboard computers.

The CIT claim that their usage signals 'serious problems with the provision of Russian troops with armoured vehicles'.

Russia has sent around 1000 advanced T-90 tanks to Ukraine, which cost £4million a pop and are supposedly some of the best tanks in the world.

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Carpathian military district, USSR, January 1972, a t-54 tank unit on the move during exercises.
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The T-54 tank was first produced by Russia during the 1940s and used throughout the Cold War

However, many of these haev been destroyed by Ukrainian soldiers with rocket launchers and Javelin missiles.

In May last year, Russia lost 70 of its newer tanks while trying to cross a river.

Elite Russian military units were also spotted using old Cold War-era T-62s upgraded with new gear, but most of these were lost as well.

The news follows an announcement by the Pentagon to send refurbished Abrams tanks to Ukraine, themselves older models which were first built in the 1990s.

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