Obviously I took inspiration from the pictures I had.

Some other shots of the Tank Park, this one of a Chinese version of the T-55 tank, another Soviet design. Almost all the vehicles had been thoroughly spray-painted with graffiti; I have no idea who “Xavier” is or why he chose that tank to tag, of if he’s connected to “April”. It was pretty much impossible to find a vehicle to pose by that did not have some sort of message scrawled on it.

I’ll try to include a Taji Tank Park Gallery soon; I have a number of fascinating pictures from there.

Comment added 24 JULY:
When our armor situation was still pretty bad, I tried to convince them that we should cut scraps from the old Soviet vehicles and use them. Some were up for it, but the mechanics didn’t have the cutting torches that would be required.

Would have been a nice irony, using their own old stuff to up-armor our vehicles…