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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is taken to the front of the T-12 guns: the guns of the 50s of the last century were noticed in Crimea (photo, video)

Anti -tank guns, which for over 70 years, have been painted and towed on trucks. The T-12 is fired by fragmentation and light shells, they can be used for terrestrial purposes. The Russian military attracts anti-tank guns T-12, created in the 1950s. Video of movement of weapons in occupied Crimea was posted on Telegram on April 3 by a spokesman for the Odessa military administration Sergey Bratchuk. "Rapir predecessors.

The Ukrainian portal "Militar" specifies that anti -tank guns were booking military trucks, they were photographed by local residents. The appearance of the guns can be seen that they were recently taken out of storage bases and handed over to the occupation troops in Ukraine, journalists noted. The video shows an echelon that transported the T-12 guns to Russia. Visually visible that the guns were painted.

The Russians may have carried out renewable work and brought them to a satisfactory state to send to the war zone, military experts said. Other footage shows a railway station with two echelons - one with guns, and the other with armored vehicles and vehicles, complemented by the authors of Defense Express. The T-12 anti-tank gun gun was developed in the 1950s at the Yurgin Machine-Building Plant №75 (Yurga). They were used to defeat the Western Tanks Leopard 1 and M60.

The gun uses a carrier from the 85mm Soviet anti-tank gun D-48. The T-12 guns are firing shrapnel-figs, so the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can use them as field artillery to defeat ground targets from closed positions, notes "militaristic". The outdated T-12 has long been removed from weapons, in 1972 it was replaced with anti-tank MT-12 "Rapir".

In these weapons, only the speed of transportation has changed - up to 60 km/h by highways and up to 25 km/h by a soil due to changing the carrier. The weapon ammunition includes several types of sub-caliber, cumulative and fragmentation shells, as well as controlled anti-tank missiles. "The emergence of such outdated weapons in the occupiers may indicate attempts to fill the losses of artillery systems.

The T-12 can be taken to the battlefield due to the rapid wear of the trunks in more modern artis systems that take time to restore," military experts emphasized. Recall that the speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces Yuri Ignat on March 31 spoke about the use of the Ukrainian military in the battles of high -precision JDAM bombs, which can plan in the air. However, the reserves of these ammunition are insufficient.