RT.com – May 8, 2024
A video documenting the destruction of a NATO-supplied tank in Ukrainian service appeared on Russian social media on Tuesday. Initially identified as a German-made Leopard, the tank was later established to have been a US-made Abrams.
Only 31 Abrams tanks of the M1A1 type were sent to Ukraine, arriving late last year. Five had been confirmed destroyed as of mid-April. The newest video would bring the tally up to seven, while three others have taken significant damage.
Thermal camera footage attributed to Donetsk People’s Republic scouts shows a first-person-view (FPV) drone chasing the tank along a road before striking the back of the turret.
The view then switches to an observation drone, which documents another strike on the crew as it attempts to flee the burning vehicle.
According to the Russian open-source intelligence outfit Rybar, the strike took place on the Avdeevka front.
Rybar analysts were puzzled that the Ukrainian armed forces have not even attempted to improve the NATO-supplied tanks with field modifications designed to protect against UAV strikes. Such contraptions, initially derided as “grills” and “cope cages,” have proven to be effective against the widely used FPV drones.
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The new video comes just three days after the Russian Defense Ministry released color footage of the destruction of another Abrams and the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), also near Avdeevka. The town, heavily fortified by Ukrainian troops since 2014, was taken by Russian forces in February.
One of the Abrams tanks destroyed on the Avdeevka front was salvaged by Russian troops and brought to Moscow as a trophy ahead of the May 9 Victory Day festivities. The Russian military has also released a video of its demise, this time by guided anti-tank missiles.
Long believed to be one of the best-armored tanks in the world, the Abrams has been shown as vulnerable to a range of Russian weapons. The New York Times recently lamented the fact that $500 drones are so easily wrecking $10 million armored vehicles.
When another tank was taken out recently the tank was struck once by a suicide-drone and tho’ the crew survived the strike the tank didn’t. As drones generally strike from above at the hull it brings into question the quality of those vehicles. Those men will have a good story to tell for the rest of their lives but it must have been a relatively mild blast for them to survive it, but a fragile tank to be taken out by it.
This is a photo from WWII c/o a commenter on a Larry Johnson article. It shows two tanks obviously made in Britain and going to Russian forces, surrounded by UK servicemen and the men who built them.
https://imgur.com/a/fUrKibe
The ‘Good News’ for ZATO: Abrams/Leopard/Challenger tanks reach Moscow… 😊
The ‘BAD News’ for ZATO: …as burnt-out husks taken to Victory Park… 😩
That’s us, in the West, watching our money go up in smoke. Literally. There’s some poor Ukraine grunts in those vehicles as well.
If they want to spend millions on useless vehicles I have an old Vauxhall Astra they can have for £500,000.
I’m sure the Putintards will post here high fiving one another cheering on their favorite Ruskie kike. They will be followed by the Miles Mathis cheerleaders; another wormy kike. Oh yeah, let’s not forget the Nazi bashers who are more than likely pseudonyms for Carl Jones. I think I hit all bases.
Main armor takes frontal hits but the armor on the back is thinner .. the Abrahams lacks protection because .. it has no cage .. drones need to get to the hull first.
So much more diversity here .. don’t forget the normies ..
I would be happy if I didn’t know Putinski is just another Kunt.
@MM
Yes. That was from my hometown of Smethwick. Twenty years later, the concerns of indigenous people, including those in the photo, would be castigated for criticising immigration. A time when Malcolm X would come over — he has a blue plaque in my hometown — and lecture us on the WWII “gas ovens”, whatever the fuck they were…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWII_Smethwick_Russia_tank_-_IWM_P_233.jpg
You can look at the photo and judge the simplistic pride and celebration – “Look at me I’m in a publicity photo – my mum will be proud…”
An entire play made up of several scenes:
1/ Brainwash the plebs
2/ Get them to enjoy the show
3/ Chew them up
4/ Spit them out
I recall a local Facebook heritage site showing this photo. They are all about glorifying the World Wars and take a ridiculous vicarious pride in dead relatives. They don’t have a clue, they are beyond debate, and they will never have a fucking clue. For them, showing old photos allows them this ridiculous sense of pride, and this of course plays into the establishment’s hands. They were all “King Charles” and poor Lizzy to boot.
Within in this greater play, during the 1953 Coronation there were street parties all over the place in Smethwick. In 1977, during the “Silver Jubilee”, I remember attending a “street party” — relegated to a church hall — with some old fucker who was the master of ceremonies, getting people to toast the queen. I remember wincing even as a politically naïve 16 year old at this load of bollocks. A couple of years ago I noticed a Charles and Diana mug in charity shop. I gave it a second glance, but only now do I regret not having bought it as my own continuing verdict on the royal shit show.
Why are we still in WW1? I thought there were exotic weapons now