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1 posted on 03/11/2022 9:13:16 PM PST by Enlightened1
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Meanwhile the Ru**ians surround 80,000 soldiers and not a peep. Let’s all cheer Ukraine and watch Russian civilians die of starvation.

Yayyyyyyy I love war more than the pandemic! Hurrayyyy for America and Brandon and Kamala


2 posted on 03/11/2022 9:27:18 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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The armored vehicles were still under power and able to fight.


3 posted on 03/11/2022 9:37:25 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Not sure if the Ukrainians got away. Looks like they got one tank for certain, hit and maybe incapacitated a second.

What do the veterans here think? Looks like they were too close to get away. The first shot was around 50 meters, the NLAW has a 1 km range.

Was terrain and trees a factor in getting that close?

5 posted on 03/11/2022 10:05:31 PM PST by Widget Jr
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This is all a good distraction for our problems at home and our border being invaded. They can all nuke each other for all I care.


8 posted on 03/12/2022 3:25:10 AM PST by McGruff (A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots)
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Ukraine War - Ukrainian Soldiers Knock Out Russian Tank With NLAW In Point Blank Ambush

From comments in video What you dont realize is that the 125mm cannon of that tank is shelling the ukranian position BUT if you watch closely you can see the big explosion followed by a smaller one on the bottom left. The smaller one is a ukranian soldier shooting his rocket at the tank. That soldier got shelled by the 125mm, stood his ground and nailed his rocket straight into that tank. Balls of steel!

10 posted on 03/12/2022 3:48:02 AM PST by tlozo
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Agree that it looks like an NLAW was used - the top-down attack is visible in the video. The part that shows that the Russians are ill-trained is that when the infantry dismounts from the two BMPs, they go away from the Ukrainian firing position, instead of assaulting in their enemy's direction.

The two tanks make an impressive display, firing two HE rounds in the general direction of the Ukrainian, but other than a lot of flash and fire, they don't appear to have hit anything.

That hit tank keeps rolling because the dead driver's foot is still on the accelerator. If everybody in the tank wasn't killed by the initial hit, they certainly were dead when the ammo started burning.

11 posted on 03/12/2022 4:43:38 AM PST by Chainmail (99.36% of all statistics are made up on the spot)
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“Ukrainian Soldiers Knock Out Russian Tank With NLAW In Point Blank Ambush”

They used a Mother-NLAW to destroy the tank?

Clever


15 posted on 03/12/2022 7:31:19 AM PST by moovova
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Maybe it wasn't a NLAW? I can't see the Ukrainian missile team moving or getting away.

It could have been a Ukrainian Stugna-P. That system allows launch control unit to run a cable to the launcher. The operator guides the missile by the thermal imaging camera in the nose. If that was the case, the Ukrainian operators could be a few hundred meters away from where the missile was.

Russian vehicle destroyed by a Ukrainian Stugna-P

16 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:54 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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