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Absolutely. Even a tank that gets driven from battlezone to battlezone on a transporter will pick up dust and dirt from the road.

I tend to weather my mechanicum-stuff. Because it is old, worn out and often repaired.
Also: Ordo reductor messes around with radiation, phosphex and even scarier stuff.
And my artillery-tanks are basicly expendable and mass-produced. So nobody gives a thought about maintenance. Heck, after the last campaign we parked most of them in a crater and just blasted them to dust.....