I don't want to sound like a Putinist gigafascist, but I think Ukraine may have more than one problem.
Their cope cages
Our ingenious improvised protection
I prefer "Munitions Stand-Off Fence" but I just call them cope cages normally
They should just do what I did in every game of Command & Conquer
Send every single tank they have out on a Death or Glory strike
Then when the Brotherhood of Nod (Russia[the bad guys]) is busy fighting the tanks, you send an APC holding a single engineer to capture their Mobile Construction Unit and win the game
undeploys MCV
literally Kursk offensive (if it can even be called that)
Well, give it another year or so and it'll get its pejorative nickname
Something like Zelensky's Folly or the Kursk Krunch
Bellendski
Last week I had one of my libs grinning while talking about how Ukraine has Russia on the ropes after their own "special military operation" into Russian territory.
libs continue to live in an alternate reality
Libs are delusional
Can't wait for the first F-16 to be shot down by the Russians. Ukraine already lost one, but it supposedly crashed instead of being shot down by the Russians. There is also a high chance that it was shot down by their own air defence lol, either way the air chief was canned instantly.
These US/NATO wunderwaffe are not so wonderful when faced with an equal foe. Their biggest selling points were that they were tested in real world combat, but it's easy to look amazing against much weaker armies. Same thing with all these American mercs who thought it was gonna be another walk in the park like Iraq lol
Not only their own air defense, but a patriot missile lol
The tanks can be as realiable as can be, but ain't nobody can do smth about the air being full of drones...
They suck anywhere that doesn't have infrastructure to support their 65+ ton heavy asses
I was like, "no fucking way", so I looked it up:
it is one of the heaviest tanks in service at nearly 73.6 short tons (66.8 metric tons).
This motherfucker weighs more than a Ferdinand tank destroyer......... that is one thicc main battle tank...
American weight creep. Like the newest Bradleys weight like 30 tons, slightly heavier than a WW2 medium tank and twice as heavy as a BMP (which the Bradley was suppose to be a copy of).
Just like the cars, joke country.
Does this mean the US will actually try to create Bolo tanks due to sheer hubris?
Big Gulp Tank
now look at the weight of the NAMER IFV
Heavier than a T-34 
Namer is basically a main battle tank with people instead of a gun
Genius tactical design...
heavier than a T90 if I remember correctly
The American on, presumably
They should have sat on them all and used them in the Kursk offensive primarily on roads instead of having them sink in soft soil across Ukrainian fields where they get wrecked by artillery and drones.
Honestly would've been light-years ahead of the strategy they used
Still love the ~~truck~~ tank!
Maybe if they got 32 tanks the tides of war would change
Seriously though I don't know why they thought a few dozen Abrams would do anything. The US deployed over 2,000 tanks during Desert Storm and that was basically a skirmish compared to what's going on in Ukraine.
My theory is that the NATO MIC is treating the war like a lab experiment. They give Ukraine a handful of export versions of all sorts of different hardware, then see how the Russian military takes them out for their own R&D purposes.
Thats about 64.5161290322580%!
It is time to work on my stormworks tank again (has a tiny turret, light weight)
Expect that autoloader variant of M1A2 Abrams, AbramsX would lose soon.
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