Russia’s Largest Film Studio Donated Antique Tanks To The Military

Russia has lost so many tanks in Ukraine that the nation’s largest studio has donated movie props to bolster its armor force.

“… in 2023, we handed over 28 T-55 tanks, 8 PT-76 tanks, 6 infantry fighting vehicles and 8 trucks we had in our military department to the Armed Forces,” Mosfilm Director Gen. Karen Shakhnazarov told Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Kremlin on Wednesday. “I knew that they needed them, so I got in touch with the Defense Ministry, and they took these vehicles.”

“All equipment is a prop (stage-site-site means), is in good condition and is ready to shoot several films at the same time,” Mosfilm explained, adding it “provides its own sites for filming films with the participation of military equipment, on the territory of the military-technical base itself, as well as in the adjacent forest belt.”

Among its armor collection, the studio had T-54/55s and PT-76s. Examples of tanks like those can be seen in the following images.

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