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Russia Has Decimated Ukraine's M1 Abrams Fleet
(nationalinterest.org)
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In my opinion, this actually doesn't really say much about the capabilities of the abram. What were westerners expecting 30 tanks to do in a peer to peer attrition war? Were they expecting that only 5 or so tanks would be destroyed?
It sounds a lot less remarkable when you put it as
"In a war involving over a 1,000,000 soldiers fighting more than a 1000 day's, firing 1000s of rockets, countless drone attacks and millions of artillery shells, 27 hits were successfully made on a weapons system that can't fly in the sky or hide in the water"
What point is this article even trying to make? If the abrams "exemplifies survivability", why write a scare piece about it, uh, not surviving?
Is it to just shit on the ukrainians for not using the system correctly? Is it to generate consent for more deliveries? If it is, kind of wierd to shit on the ukrainians for aparantly wasting the wunderwaffe.
Genuinely strange article imo.
I think the west is still clinging to the idea of NATO tech being superior, and it's a big shock to people that it's not performing miracles.