https://youtu.be/s7p2-tMS4UE?si=ymGS-_o4R2G-pd8X
The Ukrainians recently pulled all of the M1 Abrams tanks — a gift extorted from the American taxpayer — off the front line, saying they were “weak and vulnerable.”
The author starts by praising the T-14 Armada, which isn't in service and doesn't actually exist as a viable weapon since it was a Russian propaganda/ grift program. I didn't bother reading after that.
Drones rule. A$500 drone can destroy a $3 million dollar tank easily.
Perfectly said.
The T90M is supposed to be the best Russian tank in production. Vlad V. Putin claims it is unstoppable. 45 of which have been destroyed in UKR.
The largest type of Russian tank, out of the 2000 destroyed, is the T-72 in all its varieties.
Huh? The M-1 Abrams is not the modern Abrams. It is is the in-storage European stockpile surplus. That model was first rolled out in 1995.
These tanks do not have modern armor. They have tungston armor. No modern electronics are in them
So, any badmouthing of the M-1 is because they aren’t aware that these are export older models that were sitting in storage. Same name, same look, but not the same tank.
The Ukranians were used to Russian tanks, not western ones. They weren’t raised in them like the US military. How much loss is due to that and using them in the Russian tank doctrine?
Finally, T-72? The older M-1 used the T-72 as target practice in the Iraq wars. What updates they have undergone I wouldn’t know. So I wouldn’t be so down on giving these tanks to Ukraine. Give them more. They are just paperweights in parking lots as is. The more we give the Ukrainians the more we drain the actual threat to the West.
We spent 7 trillion dollars in the cold war. Stopping them this time with used “cars” seems like a deal.
An M-1 commander from Fort Riley attended our church before being transferred. I asked him one day what possible opposing tank would be the biggest threat to the Abrams and he immediately answered the Israeli Merkava.
In 5 years, the best tank will be a remote controlled tank with AI that is cheap to make and expendable.
Who is this guy?
Looking through his back articles at the National Interest, I smell a political grifter pandering to the Trump vote. (¬_¬)"Brandon J. Weichert, a National Interest national security analyst, is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, the Asia Times, and The-Pipeline. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life, and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy. His next book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine, is due October 22 from Encounter Books. Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon."