Items on sale include transport vehicles, military jeeps, and even auxiliary ships. Russia’s Ministry of Defense is selling decommissioned equipment at its auctions and exhibitions, but armored vehicles are not a part of the offerings. Iraqi soldiers probably stole them from Kuwait during the invasion of the country in 1990.Įbay has restrictions on selling military equipment and various weapons, but the website, in some cases, allows the sale of decommissioned military equipment.

In one of the fuel compartments, Mead found five gold bars. On Ebay he acquired an ex-Iraqi army Type 69, a Chinese copy of the Soviet T-55 medium tank, but got much more than he bargained for. Nick Mead, a British collector and owner of Tanks-A-Lot, a UK-based tank restoration business, recently made a surprisingly lucrative purchase.

Whether it’s a legendary T-34 or T-72 tank or infantry vehicles of the Airborne Troops, many decommissioned Soviet military vehicles are on sale in Russia, former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe.

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