Russia to Scrap Rusting Arsenal

Kommersant reported Thursday that the disposal list included 500 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 40 strategic bombers, 1,000 airplanes and helicopters, 84 nuclear submarines, 30,000 anti-aircraft and 5,000 cruise missiles, about 6,000 tanks and over 5 billion units of ammunition.

www.themoscowtimes.com...

wow. this is a great deal of equipment. could they sell them off or something like that

Probably not....

They are rusting equipment. Old tanks and weapons. Most are probably outdated.

Then again, if they sell them off, we never know.

7.62x39mm, 5.45mm, and 9x18mm Mak surplus ammunition prices are about to go through the floor.

Yippeeee !!!!!!

I hope they will sell their AKs too for as cheap as Mosin Nagants! whooooooo!!

The price of a T-72 is already $125,000. Bring it down to 75,000 and suddenly you could have a bunch of people with very neat weekend offroading vehicles.

Now that would be cool.

Somethings up here?

Is Russia becoming PC?

I hope that scrap means destroy, and does not mean sell to the highest bidder or given away.

I wonder if the UN will observe this scrapping?

Here is a link to a post about Russia scraping its Bio Arsenal

www.abovetopsecret.com...

its all a ploy...for either the UN or USA to pay gobs of money
to destroy the armaments the Russians are willing to list...
as being potential black-market weaponry to terrorists.

the Russians are playing the world for suckers,
getting their enemy to shoulder the cost of the partial disarmament

Originally posted by Raideur
The price of a T-72 is already $125,000. Bring it down to 75,000 and suddenly you could have a bunch of people with very neat weekend offroading vehicles.

Now that would be cool.

Or better yet pickup a Mig

thats a very large amount of equipment going to the scrap yard.

i think its nearly as much military equipment in the african continet.

omg 6000 tanks. i hope they make something more useful with these arms.

[edit on 3-8-2005 by chinawhite]