Stuff like this.
My immediate thought is "you could get SendCutSend to make those for $1 each or less." So my next most immediate thought is "these are fake"
But its a cool idea for a couple Christmas gifts. Anyone know if there are ones actually sourced from tanks?
::Shrug::
I think you'd be better sending your money to Hungary Bill and giving whoever a picture of a Ukrainian child holding a plushy.
God I hope they are real, what an epic troll of russia that would be.
These would likely sell better if they were accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Putin.
I bet that there are some that are real, but most would be fake.
Pretty silly either way. I agree with Beer Baron.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
You get a picture of the soldiers with an angle grinder slicing up the tank.
an even better global troll would be if this is a product of Putin's industrial base, made by their own SendCutSendsky.
Hmmmm. I mean, the Ukrainians certainly have better things to do than put time into creating these, but then again, just taking some pieces, or cutting them off and sending them to an out of country manufacturer (melt down ect.) is not terribly hard.
It does show the actual tank ID, which would not be hard to look up. There is a site that will tell you when each tank was a lost / captured etc.
It would be nice to see more pic of the process (actual tank being cut up etc) or a piece that looks a bit more like it was just cut off (more rough etc), rather than melted down and reformed.
aircooled said:Hmmmm. I mean, the Ukrainians certainly have better things to do than put time into creating these, but then again, just taking some pieces, or cutting them off and sending them to an out of country manufacturer (melt down ect.) is not terribly hard.
Selling war scrap has actually become a fairly big thing from the region from what I can tell. What else are you going to do for money when your factories and other worksites have been demolished by Russia? Not all of Ukraine is on the front lines
After looking around, about the only one that I actually have any confidence in is this one https://gate.org/product/tank-cannon-fragment/
And for that price... yeah. Bill is a better investment.
It's not necessarily spoils of war. There was a lot of decommissioned Russian stuff in Ukraine already. Probably Soviet, come to think about it.
When I was looking at going over to help our missionaries in Kharkiv, I wasn't comming home without some kind of scrap from a Russian tank/truck/missile/plane.
There are also these:
Ukrainians made souvenirs from destroyed Russian T-80BV tank
Same thing, different tank?
Whoops, here is the Instagram site.
https://www.instagram.com/fuselage_creations/
In reply to Noddaz :
If you search for "downed" on their shop it will list the relevant products, proceeds go to Ukrainian armed forces (edit: At least on most of them, details are in the item description):
https://airhubstore.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=downed
In reply to GameboyRMH :
Yeah, those are more what I would look for. Of course, significantly more expensive ($100), but far easier to trust what they are. These are clearly just cut out of the aircraft's skin and laser etched (there is even a video of them doing it):
I'd think anything they could cut off a tank would be a lot more substantial than those things. If I were going to buy a souvenir I'd want it to be a thick piece of armor.
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