Soviet Tank Inventory; Europe, Early 1990s [Polish]

[MKSheppard]

Can Pezook translate for me?

[lukexcom]

The top-left of the image, "Typ Czolgu", means "Tank Type".

In accordance with the data that the Soviet Union presented after signing agreements on limiting conventional weaponry, it had in Europe the following numbers of tanks. Soviet tanks limits in Europe.

(For the second paragraph below, "RFN" may refer to either West Germany if the text is from the Cold War, or all of Germany if the text was written after the Cold War. I'm assuming it refers to East Germany?)

IV-1 European territory of USSR, Poland, Hungary, Chechoslovakia, Germany;

IV-2 Germany, Hungary, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Baltic Military District, Belorussian MD, Carpathian MD, Kiev MD, Moscow MD, Ural MD;

IV-3 Germany, Hungary, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Baltic MD, Belorussian MD, Carpathian D, Kiev MD;

IV-4 Hungary, Germany, Poland, Checholosvakia;

IV-5 Flanks from Atlantic to the Urals - Leningrad MD, Odessa MD, Caucasian MD, North-Caucasian MD

Where I wrote "IV-5", the original text had "V". I'm assuming it's "IV-5".

[MKSheppard]

Thanks man. I wonder if the T-80 data is actually real; or if the Soviets were purposely inflating them to screw with us...

[K. A. Pital]

I wonder if the T-80 data is actually real

4839 was the number of T-80 of all modifications stationed in E. Europe in 1990. Looks pretty similar to the numbers shown here (with an obvious greater number of tanks in USSR proper).

[Adrian Laguna]

Oh wow, that's a whole lot of tanks. I think calling it a tank swarm is an understatement, they deployed a fucking armoured sea.

I'm surprised by the number of T-80s relative to the number of T-72s, I thought the first was supposed to be an advanced tank given to elite units and the latter a more common but weaker tank for mass use. Were most of the T-72s given to non-Soviet WarPac armies?

[Pelranius]

The T-72s might have been kept in reserve on Soviet territory for Red Army reservists. However, I could be confusing that with someone else's mobilization practices.