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2022-05-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukraine thwarts Russian battalion's river-crossing and destroys at least 58 vehicles

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-12 07:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 This is the twitter thread purportedly by the Ukrainian engineer mentioned in the article. It's a "there I was..." kind of story, but an interesting quick read.

Posted by Matt 2022-05-12 08:40|| 2022-05-12 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 And basically the same story appears in Forbes and media outlets other than the Daily Mail.

Posted by Matt 2022-05-12 08:59|| 2022-05-12 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 They say three tanks in the pic and two have the turrets blown off. I guess that auto loader idea really didn't pan out.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-05-12 14:05|| 2022-05-12 14:05|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the Americans looked at that tricky Soviet/Russian feature early on, Mercutio.

All M1 Abrams variants are manually loaded. It does add one more to the crew (5) vs. four in the later T-series, though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-05-12 17:29|| 2022-05-12 17:29|| Front Page Top

#5 The Russian side attaches great importance to Lysychansk - and Severodonetsk -

This is perhaps because in May 2014, the separatists took these cities but the Ukraine side took these cities back in Sept 2014 and have held them since.

Russia has expended a lot of men and material trying to retake these cities.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-05-12 19:02|| 2022-05-12 19:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't think the turret is going to buff out. Does bondo work on tanks?

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-05-12 20:36|| 2022-05-12 20:36|| Front Page Top

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