Moscow’s forces have destroyed five US-made Abrams in Ukraine and damaged another three, the newspaper has claimed
Expensive American M1 Abrams tanks delivered to Ukraine are increasingly falling prey to Russian drones that cost only a fraction as much, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Even “one of the most powerful symbols of American military might” is not invulnerable to the attacks, it said.
At least five US-supplied tanks out of the 31 provided by Washington have already been destroyed by Russia, the media outlet said, adding that three others were “moderately damaged.”
In most cases, the tanks have been destroyed by first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze drones, also known as loitering munitions. These drones are capable of maneuvering before hitting their targets.
In at least one instance though, an Abrams tank was taken out in a duel against a Russian T-72B3 main battle tank. The Russian military has published upwards of a dozen clips, mostly taken from drones, showing the destruction of US-supplied equipment.
According to the NYT, the tanks turned out to be “more easily taken out by exploding drones than some officials and experts had initially assumed.” The media outlet cited Austrian historian and military expert Colonel Markus Reisner, who described the situation as “unbelievable.” The paper also described the Russian UAVs as “highly-accurate, low-cost tank killers.”
The drones’ accuracy exceeds 90%, the NYT said, adding that they are also capable of hitting heavy armor in its weakest spots. The UAVs “can cost as little as $500,” the paper reported, and are capable of “taking out a $10 million Abrams tank.” The paper noted that there is no “easy, or single” way to defend a tank against a drone attack.
US-made Abrams tanks made their long-expected appearance on the front line in late February amid the Ukrainian effort to halt advancing Russian troops after the capture of the Donbass city of Avdeevka. A batch of 31 M1 Abrams tanks was pledged to Kiev early last year, ahead of the ultimately disastrous Ukrainian counteroffensive. The delivery was made in full by mid-October, when the ill-fated push had already largely been exhausted.
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Likewise in the future a $500 drone will ‘visit’ your house if you vote incorrectly.
Courtesy of our MIC, Google Maps, and the Socialists.
500 buck drones,hmmmm…..,seems that can easily be a 2 way street,just saying….
I seriously doubt the US’s MIC would ever produce a $500 drone … or even a $5,000 drone — except for, maybe, the illegal aliens that our Armed Forces are going to use against US …
The IRA built SAM missiles in Massachussetts that were used in Northern Ireland against the Brits. Brit cocksuckers would fly over a suspected IRA house and hover over firing thousands of rounds of 7.62 NATO through the roof killing the entire family. One day they show up and some IRA guy launches the SAM and blows up the helicopter frying the crew. Brits immediately stop attacking homes with helicopters. Model rocket engines and backyard motion detector for the seeker. Add in one programmed microchip and that was it.
Argentine commies made their own RPG launchers and B40 rockets and Karl Gustav subguns.
Based on YouTube videos there is no doubt you could easily weaponize a drone with guns, bombs, what have you.
Our problem is that we are about to be confronted with all this super cheap high tech weaponry whether terrorists or cartels and all our professional stupid people want is multi million per pop weapons. As stated before, our morons running the Army are switching over to an AR-10 pattern rifle firing $3 a shot ammo, which is heavier and each troop can carry less of the larger heavier weapon and ammo. This new ammo is at least 500% more per round than M855 or M193. At least 200% more than M80.
The system will crash of its own weight.
HR,the ammo will drop in price shortly,problem is Lake City and others making it will raise cost of 5.56/.308 for the citizens.
Price check just now on the 6.8 x 51mm FMJ rounds … 20 rounds of 135 grain FMJ — $29.99 at ammo.com … $1.50 per round …
I couldn’t find those rounds there. They have lots of the Remington 6.8 SPC rounds they tried to push a few years back but I found no 6.8 x51 or it’s civilian .277 Fury.
The government contract cost a couple of years ago was .0025 cents per round
Alas dear friend you seem to have forgotten that Uncle scam will push this new rifle and ammo system onto his ever dwindling amount of friends in the world. Just like he did with 5.56. If his friends are stupid enough to buy Uncle scam’s overpriced rubbish well they deserve to get ripped off. The rip off will subsidise your domestic needs.
Yeah stick with .270 or 30-06 for rifle loads.
Dumping 30/06 for 7.62 NATO (.308) was a huge boondoggle. 30/06 was the most efficient .30 cal load in use at the time. Soviet .30 cal was 7.62×59, while the new .308 is 7.62×51. ’06 is 7.62×63, a supremely coefficient .30 cal round from John Browning.
Who’s going to vote besides lefties and those seeking to buy politicians?
D0m1ny0n enters the chat…
Smartmatic too…
Just wait till a $3 million dollar cruise missile destroys a 13 billion dollar aircraft carrier.
Cant wait to see the faggoty look on Admiral Levines face when that happens.
Unless the $500 drone gets the launcher first.
Excellent point.
Mike Johnson was told by the CIA inside a SCIF that God Himself has promised that if he allowed Congress to spend $90 billion, Israel would prevail and Ukraine wouldn’t lose until the day after the presidential election.
H/T: wrsa
Economic sanctions against Russia–who’s bankrupting whom?
RT:
“the [NYT] has claimed” 😂 👍
These Abrams tanks are 1970’s technology. Obviously not designed for 21st century warfare. It’s a bit different when taking on an enemy that can actually shoot back with modern weaponry vs a bunch of goat herders and camel jockeys wearing sandals.
Aye, and yet the T72 is from the 60s. The best accomplishment of modern USSA weaponery is to make shareholders more money.
Right on target, Waff.
Russia built tough inexpensive tanks easy to fix, the US built tech tanks that easily break down and are hard to repair.
Just you wait until the democrat parties army of cunts-faggots-niggers and beanniggers go up against a equal foe.
Gonna be millions of cardboard boxes of remains to send home to democrat mommy.
Ah, the US Army will just have to wave their rainbow battle flag and the enemy will turn and run. (sarc, for idiots)
For the cost of a tank one could field a thousand guys with rifles on 4-wheelers. One cheap missile can’t take out 1000 4-wheelers..
Good luck finding 1000 guys willing to fight for fUSA in a country of no significance to them against Ivans who are battle tested and see this as an threat to their existence.
They will all want to be deported to their home country when they get their draft notice!
We are watching the death of an ancient paradigm. Previously, the winner was the side with the most soldiers or the most expensive equipment. Even in ancient warfare, the side with the most soldiers in expensive armor had more survivors. The side with the most elaborate fortresses used to be the safest. Gunpowder modified war but the one with the best weapons and or defenses usually won. The winner became the side with the most elaborate and expensive ways to deliver gunpowder. Then those with the best nuke delivery systems ruled. Now, none of that matters because cheap drones can kill soldiers (who cost large amounts to train and equip), more expensive tanks and cannons, even more expensive aircraft, the most expensive ships, and even the means to deliver nukes. The modern battlefield is now a continuous alter to suicide. How this will evolve remains to be seen, but the days of tanks, soldiers, ships, and planes is over. Who will be willing to fight where death is certain and military vehicles are nothing more than moving coffins?
War is stupid but as long as only the powerless and poor die it will never end because the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful from wars.
SKYNET
You mean altar not alter. The way to bet is the drones with the best software will win – if they can be manufactured and delivered.
And after the coinciding EMP events we’ll be back to sticks and stones plus machetes. Make Melee Combat Great Again.
Repost:
THE REAL STORY OF THE ISRAELI COUNTER RESPONSE
From a very high level intel source. In Asia. NOT Russia-China.Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force. An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan. The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran’s electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices. An EMP attack.
However…… As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force. Hence the publicised version of the Israeli counter response was such a travesty. In the end all sides decided not to publicise the real news – to de-escalate what could well turn into WWIII.
ttps://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/11024
Update:
VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE
I now have TWO separate, definitive confirmations from TWO ultra high level intel sources from TWO separate Asian nations. Working to get a third – at least a partial acknowledgment.
I moved to Asia 30 years ago. Built a unparalleled network. Trust my top sources a billion per cent.
The original source that led to my first post reconfirmed he stands by it. His words:”I’m honestly surprised that people are surprised. Do they really think if something like this happened it’s gonna be presented to them in front of their TVs? It’s like history has taught them nothing.”
Working on a first [comment] column – probably out tomorrow.
ttps://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1782015672639168882
Verification will come in the form of an intense search of the wreckage, in search of da bomb.
If I had a mega-ultra-super-very high level intel source, …
I wouldn’t believe him if he told me my own name.
Blackadder always comes to the rescue:
Once upon a time, I had a double dog secret clearance in AWACS and was a former red rope.
Either one means nada these days.
We built THE first cable modems and ported the NextOS to iOS, for Motorola, in 1993!!!!
QAnon? Is that you? Long time no see.
Which of course is all utter bullshit…….Israel sent a single very stealthy missile that destroyed the S300 installation at Istafan (sp)…..and the message was….we can hit you anywhere at any time and you can’t even detect the missile in flight……Iran’s defenses are utterly worthless. So like usual….the Best of the West Weapons work well and the East/Commie/Muslim shit does not…….I think the whole WW3 thing is over for the moment…..Iran knows they are at extreme risk with further provocations and Israel is on very thin ice world wide for doing what they needed to do to Hamas…..So I expect to see a smaller effort in Rafah to degrade Hamas further but not a scorched earth invasion to truly eradicate them. Hezbollah stands down for the most part and this slowly fades………Which is a good thing for everybody except the Iranian people….who are still the victims of the Mullahs. Its all fun and games until a missile blows your shit up and you never saw it coming. Even the Houthis will pull back from attacking shipping. So WW3 not starting from Iran vs. Israel………..
Not a wager Auntie would take.
It must be a tremendous burden to know Every Fucking Thing about Every Fucking Thing. I don’t know how you carry on.
Anyone who says ‘sources’ and can’t explain what they actually do or why they matter, are really saying ‘twitter’or ‘telegram’ or ‘something I thought up while taking a shit.’
Or of course, actual intelligence agents, which is like a giant mafia with the incentive to blow smoke up your ass.
All these wars are driven by bankers and politicals.
you know that so long as people will obey and comply with these scum they will remain powerless and nothing changes.
When the people refuse to obey and comply, it is then that the PEOPLE gain the power and change returns to their own hands.
JUST STAND UP.
The top deck is always the best way to take out a tank……
Simplicius’ recent post has pictures showing a manufacturer-installed anti-drone platform and EW device (called ZIP) on T90 tanks. Time will tell if it is useful.
Three quarters of the way through the article, for those adverse to TL;DR.
https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/sitrep-41924-a-small-gust-for-ukraines?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1q02du
Underneath also works well.
Yes……especially a “command detonated” device.
Just a matter of time before someone goes big time chemical or biological. Does anybody remember the footage of a drone dropping some kind of device releasing who knows what on a couple of Russians in a creek? They immediately started flailing around and convulsing….nothing ever happened about that I know of.
Auntie suspects next up for the main course: CBRN terrorism. Thinking London or Tokyo metro models.
it’s called a grenade, dipshit
I have serious doubts. I didn’t serve in armor but saw some Abrams up close. Hard to believe that a drone even an armed one could defeat the mighty Abrams.
One Hungarian RPG7 will do it. Even cheaper than a drone.
ust like our leaders stumbled into WW1 not realizing war had fundamentally changed. Modern war is changing as we speak. Video after video of “change”. https://kaotic.com/category/war/
The MIC advises us to look at this as a vehicle for job creation…not a needless loss of American taxpayer dollars.
Partay time at the Pentagram.
the cheapest drones can be as low as 500$
a drone could knock out a tank
the two don’t actually mean the same thing.
the price tags I’ve seen are higher, but both sides are doing it. and Russian tanks aren’t that much cheaper than Western ones.
What does cost matter though, when the ones running the war on both sides are in bed with the banks and armament manufacturers?
WHAT A WASTE. THIS WOULD NEVER HAD HAPPENED WITH CREWS FROM GERMANY OF THE 80’S SURE WE LOST TANKS IN THE GULF BUT FROM FRIENDLY FIRE. I KNOW THAT FOR A FACT BECAUSE IT WAS MY BATTALION THAT GOT HIT BY APACHES ON THE NIGHT OF THE 26TH OF FEBUARY 1991 IN IRAQ I TURNED 39 THAT NIGHT. 3RD PLATOON C CO 1ST BN 37TH ARMOR BABY. WILLY THE WORM FOR OUR SYMBOL AND COURAGE CONQUESR AS OUR MOTTO. 1ST TO BASTOGNE TO RELIEVE THE TROOPERS DURING THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE. YEAH WE TRAINED TO FIGHT THE MASSIVE RED ARMY IF THEY CAME ACROSS THE BORDER INTO GERMANY, WE TRAINED AT NIGHT AND HID DURING THE DAY UNLESS WE HAD TO ROAD MARCH. WE OWNED THE NIGHT, THE RED ARMY DIDN’T. I COULD GO ON BUT THAT WAS YEARS AGO AND I’VE BEEN RETIRED SINCE 2001. NUFF SAID.
there is a key left of ‘a’ that you might try
if anything russia has ff’ed tons more of their own shit because ukraine has less air that is useable. planes going down in rostov, for instance, are not enemy action
don’t think of this as ww2 or cold war, think of it as using up equipment, dead goyim gratis
Josey knows where the caps lock key is. He just sucks at spelling and sentence construction, not to mention factual accuracy.
This is how the VAST majority of humanity will be murdered….
H, Very likely, miniature, programable, target seeking, and cheap. nerve gas or some other poison. Life is getting cheaper by the day..
I genuinely, really, no shit wish I felt differently about this. The government under which we suffer is NOT WORTHY of OUR SUPPORT.