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07-04-2024, 01:34 PM
Ukrainian drone operators surely couldn’t believe their eyes focused their cameras on Russian assault grp rolling toward Ukrainian lines outside Novopokrovka in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia on March 30, seemed assault force included troops and vehicles from Russian airborne corps’ 76th Guards Air Assault Division, a once-elite formation with better training & equipment than most Russian divisions.
Something was off, tank leading assault wasn’t a T-72 or T-90, their standard tanks of 76th GAAD. No, it was a 1950s-vintage T-55 fitted with crude anti-drone armor, assault ended in disaster for Russians as Ukrainian 118th Mechanized Brigade opened fire with artillery, anti-tank missiles and explosive first-person-view drones, destroying at least 11 Russian vehicles, including that 40-ton, four-person T-55 with its crude optics, 100-millimeter main gun and 200-millimeter-thick armor.
That’s not what really matters. Russia’s wider war on Ukraine into its 3rd yr. After all, Ukrainian are defeating large Russian assault grps every few days all along 600-mile front line of the wider war—this despite Ukrainians struggling with ammunition supplies ever since Russia-friendly Republicans in the U.S. Congress blocked further U.S. aid starting in October. No, real story is a unit that was among best in Russian armed forces now deploys tanks that were obsolete 70 years ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...=74d53622599e
Something was off, tank leading assault wasn’t a T-72 or T-90, their standard tanks of 76th GAAD. No, it was a 1950s-vintage T-55 fitted with crude anti-drone armor, assault ended in disaster for Russians as Ukrainian 118th Mechanized Brigade opened fire with artillery, anti-tank missiles and explosive first-person-view drones, destroying at least 11 Russian vehicles, including that 40-ton, four-person T-55 with its crude optics, 100-millimeter main gun and 200-millimeter-thick armor.
That’s not what really matters. Russia’s wider war on Ukraine into its 3rd yr. After all, Ukrainian are defeating large Russian assault grps every few days all along 600-mile front line of the wider war—this despite Ukrainians struggling with ammunition supplies ever since Russia-friendly Republicans in the U.S. Congress blocked further U.S. aid starting in October. No, real story is a unit that was among best in Russian armed forces now deploys tanks that were obsolete 70 years ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...=74d53622599e
