Ooooh wee!
Remarkably accurate artillery.
How many are working?? What is Zelensky doing for the people?
The sooner zelensky loses the better it is for everyone.
That’s not going to buff out.
Can’t say I’m impressed by it.
Guess it’s antiaircraft and missile bods are supposed to be terrifying.
Oh well.
What can be seen can be hit, what can be hit can be killed.
How many soldiers did the Russians lose in the vehicle? None.
That’s it, Putin is finished.
The Terminator got TERMINATED!!! LOL!
Stationary target destroyed by indirect fire.
Impressive.
/s
Looks like some kind of waste-of-a-tank-chassis Flak Buggy.
War is so much fun, isn’t it!?
You must be so happy, like a good little sociopath.
Looks more like an M1 BOLO.🤔
ooops...
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-accidentally-blows-tank-belgorod-1773639
Russian tank repairmen in the Belgorod region have reportedly blown up a T-72 tank they were repairing, causing damage to two other tanks.
On Thursday evening, a fire broke out at a tank repair base in Belgorod, located near Russia’s border with Ukraine, according to Baza, a Russian Telegram channel that regularly posts information about security issues within the country.
The fire, which reportedly started due to a violation of fire safety during repairs, caused ammunition to detonate, destroying one tank and damaging two others nearby.
Firefighters arrived at the scene two hours after the fire, and it was extinguished in half an hour. There were no reported casualties, said Baza.
Look like it was blown by land mine.
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The BMPT was built from lessons learned during the First Battle of Grozny from December 1994 to March 1995. That war started when Chechens denied their True Russian Heritage ™ by wanting self rule independent from Russia. Russia responded to this unprovoked aggression by invading Chechnya. This was the same cause of the Second Chechen War, the Russo-Georgian War, the Annexation of Crimea, and the Russo-Ukrainian war.
(Does any of this sound familiar?)
During the Battle of Grozny, Chechen anti-tank teams from basements and rooftops destroyed 225 Russian and armored vehicles. The BMPT was (allegedly) built from lessons learned during this battle.
Looking over the design, I wonder if their were lessons learned built in or if it was more of a bureaucratic do-something-then-send-it-to-marketing design. The BPMT has four anti-tank guided missiles, and 600 each 30mm automatic grenade and cannon rounds stored under light armor on top of vehicle, in addition to or five crew hatches. It was designed for urban combat where high elevation fire is needed, which means it was designed expecting to take antitank attacks from above.
Near misses by artillery are destroying T-72s and T-90s by damaging what is not frontal armor. Guided rounds are destroying Russian tanks by direct hits. Ukraine has thousands of spotter drones watching the front lines and extremely good artillery targeting. It should be painfully obvious that putting expensive, rare and vulnerable BMPTs anywhere near the front lines makes them prime targets for precision artillery fire, the one threat that was never part of the design.
To Russia, this is a example of their military technology that strikes fear into the west. To me it is just dumb.