Gee, that’s too bad.
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Competition is not actual combat?
Go figure.
Just as I feel sad about the loss of life on the Moscow, I can’t dance on the grave of a fallen Russian tank ace.
I’d save the vitriol for Putin.
It’s a bit different than sitting on the couch with a controller in your hands.
It would be more sad if he had lived to kill numerous Ukrainians.
The game changes when the other side is shooting back.
When you think about all of the people that have been killed in wars and how much love, talent, intelligence and bravery has been vaporized, it is beyond heartbreaking.
Here’s what I’ve learned regarding Russian designed tanks. Since WWII Russia has designed with cheapness and ease of manufacture as primary concerns. I worked for General Dynamics on the M1 series and other tanks. (Although I was not involved directly with the design, I was on numerous sub sections in various capacities and saw what the priorities were.) Number 1, crew safety. That prefaced every discussion. Some of the Russian designs have an autoloader and the ammo is stored in the turret. If the turret gets hit the ammo can cook off incinerating the crew. In present US designs the ammo is kept in an armored compartment and has a lower probability of going off if the tank takes a hit. I no longer know the exact numbers off the top of my head but something like 25 Abrams were lost in Iraq and no crew were killed as a result. (Lots of things can cause a loss, including driving off bridges.)
It appears that much of the money allocated to Russian modernization instead went into yachts. If I had used any of my budget for even coffee and donuts for the designers, I’d go to prison.
Feel-good story of the day.
Dailymail is high level larping. It’s like Weekly World News coverage of Roswell.
The Russkie military, with all its bluster, isn’t as elite as once thought.Keep them body bags coming.
I liken this to the aces at the target range. They have the best weapons, perfectly clean, excellent working order and can shoot a knat off of a fly’s rear end at 500 yards.
But when the target shoots back, mother nature and fear set in. All that perfect shooting turns into spray and pray, or hiding, or running.
With regards to this Russian tank ace, the war games he was good at probably never had drones or hand held anti-tank weapons attacking him.
Nonetheless, RIP.
I truly think that the Battle Tank and conventional Aircraft Carrier are both obsolete in modern technology warfare.
Orc’s tank cutting edges have lost 2 prototype tanks and a tank ‘ace’ who got aced.
If aces get aced, then its easy to see why tankers would rather destroy their own tanks rather than face actual warfare where artillery strikes from nowhere blow them up real good.
Oh! The drama. There is nothing that they print that you won’t believe. Even after you have been provably lied to repeatedly. Yet you dance, no questions asked, on every piece of propaganda they print. You should be embarrassed.
Maybe we can send some young American libtards over to fight for Ukraine, hopefully with the same end result.
Our enemy is not the men we have to kill, but the bastards that started the war.
When I was a boy, my father - a career soldier - brought me to Arlington National Cemetery. He said that place was the happy hunting grounds of America and that, in the next life, all those who served honorably will be together. One day I and my son will join him and maybe also this man, Bato Basanov.