I’m sure these muzzie clowns don’t have repair facilities like the US.
Reading about Patton’s WW2 team, they were like race car pit crews when it came to tank repair.
What is it, like ten support members for every front line soldier?
All the fancy hardware in the world can not save you if you do not have the supplies and support to keep them on the front line.
We should be taking notes.
Another excellent example of letting Allah sort them out when Islamists fight each other. Do disturb them and let their violent behaviors/nature take its course.
“In 24 months of brutal combat, Syrian opposition fighters have eliminated a fifth of Pres. Bashar Al Assad’s Russian-made tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, according to estimates.
That’s no fewer than 1,500 T-55, T-62 and T-72 tanks plus BMP fighting vehicles exploded, burned, disabled or seized by rebels—with potentially thousands of crewmen also being killed, injured or captured.
The destruction of so many of the government’s heavy vehicles by relatively lightly armed rebels is, for the regime, a painful reminder of the vulnerability of even the most thickly armored tanks in close urban fighting—and especially when the vehicles aren’t protected by nearby infantry.”
This is what initially gave Germany a leg up in WW2. They were defeated and disarmed in WW1 so they were forced to get all new stuff. As a result, they had the most modern military in the world and it took the Allies several years to get their new stuff out in the field.
Regarding the lack of combined arms teams by Syrians: This tells you something about their infantry. By comparison, look at how we deployed a combined arms team in the Second Battle of Fallujjah.
How many were taken out by IED`s?
I know the Russians are supplying Assad with weapons and training but I wonder how much they are helping on the repair end of things. I assume the warranty on a T-55 expired back when everything I knew about tanks came from playing Combat on my my Atari 2600.