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To: samadams2000

“Anyone believe the Ukrainians are dropping copters and/or destroying tanks?”

The story reports that 3 Russian tanks were destroyed near the border around Kharkiv, using NLAWs. The UK recently provided the Ukraine 2,000 of those man-portable, shoulder fired anti-tank missiles.

The USA provided also recently some number (at least 300) of the similar Javelin anti-tank missiles, as well as some number similarly employed Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. Poland and Baltic Countries were also reported to have recently transferred some additional number of similar weapons. The Ukraine previously had its own stockpile of these types of weapons, prior to these recent arms transfers.

It is hard to miss with those self-guided missiles. Something like a 95% probability of kill, even with inexperienced operators, with only a few minutes of training and an instruction card.

I expect heavy attrition of Russian high value combat platforms like tanks and helicopters. Stinger missiles in Afghanistan are sometimes discussed as the reason the Russians had to withdraw from there.

It’s the second night, and they will need to park their tanks and sleep, as they will every night from now on. A single guy can creep (or drive) up to within one mile of a tank (or stick his head up from his hole, or even fire it out the window of a building), and kill that tank in a matter of less than a minute.

The Russian Military is going to bleed.


27 posted on 02/24/2022 7:34:50 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

You are forgetting that we are in the age of tanks with active protection systems.


31 posted on 02/24/2022 9:46:20 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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