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02/28/2010 7:56:04 PM PST by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
20,000 sounds about right. Lots are T-72s and even some T-55s in reserve stocks. I think they have about 10,000 of the T-64, T-80 and T-90 models. They used to have about 60,000 tanks back in the 70s, but some 40,000 of those were T-55s, T-54s, and even T-34/85s.
Note that I did not mention T-62s. The Soviets retired those and did not keep very many because they were just awful tanks.