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Russia's Prized T-14 Armata Tank 'Too Valuable' to Use in War—Putin Ally
Newsweek ^ | 3/4/2024 | Isabel van Brugen

Posted on 03/04/2024 7:29:32 AM PST by marcusmaximus

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To: marcusmaximus

Funny how a multi-million $$ tank can ce destroyed by a $500 drone. Russias combined armed forces, excluding strategic forces, have been decimated by a weaker country. This is a war of attrition, and Russia will win but be left with a Vietnam.


41 posted on 03/04/2024 8:43:23 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: DownInFlames

Actually, Russia is the proven weak country. Russia has proven it’s military incompetence to the world.

In the process, sanctions aside, the major jobs producer and export sales producer has dried up, ceased, kaput, worse than the debacle at Bud Lite. Nobody is buying the now known to be decidedly inferior arms.


42 posted on 03/04/2024 8:48:30 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: marcusmaximus

Perhaps the T-14 Armata tank is being held in reserve in order to counter internal revolts.


43 posted on 03/04/2024 8:52:13 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: marcusmaximus; JonPreston; kiryandil; Allegra

Tell Laz to expose your algorithm, ‘bot.


44 posted on 03/04/2024 8:55:40 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: marcusmaximus

No.
Tell Zel to lay off the coke.


45 posted on 03/04/2024 9:05:24 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: marcusmaximus; Lazamataz

Tell Russia to send the bodies of the Azov guys of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade who were massacred in the open fields just west of liberated Avdeyevka home to their wives and mothers


46 posted on 03/04/2024 9:06:10 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: Lazamataz

Tell Russia to stop building crappy tanks.


47 posted on 03/04/2024 9:22:11 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, did you see the interview of Zelensky where the dude is tweaking out of his mind?
https://youtu.be/sF4njEIdQ6Y?t=69

The dude is tweaking bad.


48 posted on 03/04/2024 9:35:11 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Bob434

[“too valuable to use”]

I wonder if that’s in the sales brochure?


49 posted on 03/04/2024 9:36:18 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Lazamataz

Do it Laz!


50 posted on 03/04/2024 9:39:27 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Farmerbob

lol- the tank has a huge sign on it that says “Do NOT Touch... ever!”


51 posted on 03/04/2024 9:58:30 AM PST by Bob434
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To: marcusmaximus

Its not so much the cost of the expensive tank, but the huge cost of the vehicles to tow them.


52 posted on 03/04/2024 10:00:19 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Brian Griffin

It lots of rental potential/s
That is how they have always acted and for the usuals who claim putin is going in soft to protect his little Russians, well….


53 posted on 03/04/2024 10:05:05 AM PST by blitz128
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To: PIF

The May 9th “Victory” parade in Red Square is a couple months away. I wonder if Shoigu has any T-14s that actually run.


54 posted on 03/04/2024 10:06:48 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: bert

Going back to the USSR days, East Germany, Poland and all the countries going east, were part of the Warsaw Pact. They consisted of hundreds of divisions and feared by NATO at the time as a real threat. This war has proven Russia and its conventional army, though destructive, is impotent in securing territory more than 90 miles from its border.

Ukraine has shown real initiative that drones have made amour and modern battlefield tactics obsolete. The only way to win a war now, is not to start one.


55 posted on 03/04/2024 10:16:39 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: DownInFlames

And Russia never would have been able to take the territory they currently hold in the south if it weren’t for the collaborators in Kherson who removed the mines from the crossing points from Crimea prior to the invasion.


56 posted on 03/04/2024 10:26:41 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Darksheare

I not only saw that, I commented that (as a former and recovered cocaine addict) it was clear he was blasted from snorting no less than an 8-ball.


57 posted on 03/04/2024 11:38:05 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah, I was pretty unsurprised that Z was tweaking.
What surprised me is that they even aired what little they did.
Thanks for confirming the observation, sorry you had to go through the addiction recovery cycle and then see this guy on TV tweaking like that.

I see truck drivers that tweak like that, and they drive the roads with us.
This guy, he’s the nominal head of a country.


58 posted on 03/04/2024 11:45:01 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare
Thanks for confirming the observation, sorry you had to go through the addiction recovery cycle

I'm not. By working the 12 steps I became a far better person than I ever could have been. 😊

59 posted on 03/04/2024 11:49:08 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks much, understood!
I’m used to it being rough for the recovering to see someone else going through where they’ve already been.


60 posted on 03/04/2024 11:54:46 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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