Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
An article in Newsweek today.
America's Abrams Tanks Are Failing the Ukraine Test
Story by David Brennan
A few points.
1. No weapons system is magic.
2. Ukraine does not have air superiority, and neither do the Russians.
3. Abrams was built under the air land battle assumptions of the 1980's and upgraded based on Force XXI concepts a couple of decades later.
4. If you can't fight a combined arms battle, you will often come up short.
5. Seems smart to come up with some new TTPs, as is mentioned in the article, rather than simply providing Russian drone pilots with some target practice.
But I want to ask this, from the opening line of the article; wait, the US is withdrawing the tanks? I thought they had been given to Ukraine? What is going on here? More Strings Attached? Or has Ukraine chosen to pull them back unitl better tactics/schemes are developed?
See my post 10301 a fair way back, it says Ukraine withdrew them due to losing 5 presumably to drones etc, and the US is working with Ukraine on new tactics for them.
Or maybe, just maybe, having seen the success of the Russian Tortoises, they have been withdrawn to convert them to TMNT’s…… that for you not so young un’s is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…… Cowabunga dudes..
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