Yesterday, I watched an 11 minute compilation of Russian armor beaten to smithereens by Ukie drones.
War breaks things.
Interested to learn why ammo was stored on the exterior of a tank.
The Marines are getting rid of tanks. You have to fight this war with infantry and drones.
Today is not your daddy's battlefield.
I sure wouldn’t want my son sitting in any of those tanks.
The Russians are posting drone footage of like 3 or 4 M1s being popped.
While not totally accurate in the sense that we would not employ them the same way, this tank as all Western MBTs is obsolete and has been for awhile.
Cancelling FCS was a horrible mistake.
It’s NOT NATO’s fault that these tanks had to fight in sub-optimal conditions, it’s PUTIN’S FAULT - so blame him, don’t blame our woke DOD.
The Ukrainians weren’t sent tanks to succeed, they were sent tanks to keep the war going and have the military korporations grab more taxpayer money.
Overweight? History repeats itself since that was a problem with German WWII tanks in the later half of the war.
The stupid in this article is astounding. What the author described is exactly what is supposed to happen: turret is hit, blow-out panels vent blast/fire away from the crew compartment. Crew escapes to fight another day. It’s how the Abrams was designed.
American tank crews are good because they are usually well trained, which takes time and money. The original Abrams was intended to fight delaying actions, vastly outnumbered and outgunned against red hordes along the IGB. Bottom line was: any engagement the crew could walk away from was a “win”...we could always find remounts. We couldn’t replace trained crews.
American commanders employ tank units (always more than one tank) as part of a combined arms team, mutually supporting one another. If you don’t, your negligence just killed those tanks and their crews.
Ultimately, what we are seeing in this fight is negligence: incompetent commanders, piecemealing single monkey model tanks with half-assed trained crews and little/no support into the fight...then blaming the tank when the plan fails.
Madness...