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They're not using captured Russian tanks as an offensive weapon. They're mostly digging them in with a berm around them and using them as a defensive position in and around the cities and along roadsides.And the Ukrainians won't find spare parts for their "slightly used" tanks. LOL
If history is any indication...
... Russians don't run out of equipment and don't give a damn about soldier's lives.
... two very definite advantages in a war of attrition.
The Ukrainian Army Has More Tanks Now Than When the War Began
I assumed that like with a car getting towed that it had to have the breaks off and put into gear to roll smoothly-----and that the soldiers in the tank probably surrendered,Not 40 tons....not on typical non paved terrain....
Ok... Finally found the video clip. It's a paved road and a pretty good sized tractor. The first thing that occurs to me is how did the farmer get the tank out of an idle position? Tanks like every other vehicle that moves have transmissions. You ain't moving that thing unless it's drivetrain is free. I see what appears to be a Russian soldier running after the two vehicles... But he has no weapon. That doesn't make any sense to me. Don't get me wrong I don't actually have a side in this conflict that I favor I just wish the whole thing never happened. But I'm highly suspicious of all of these claims. Are we terribly sure the tank motor is not also engaged? Where the hell was the soldier while the farmer spent at least a half an hour strapping up the tank? It was only one soldier? A typical tank crew is three... They usually carry sidearms at the very least. Now that doesn't mean the footage isn't genuine... There are just too many unanswered questions here that would have to be taken on faith not to question whether or not it was staged. To my knowledge that is the only video of such an incident and it was hard to find actually.
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Who believes this dumb shjt? LOLOL. Pretty sure the flattening of Mariupol says you're an idiot.Poor quality russian munitions is most likely due to graft and corruption
T72-B3s are worth approximately $10,000. I'm pretty sure Russia doesn't care if it loses another 1,000 of them.Tanks are like chump change for Russia. They have more tanks than NATO (and that's the only thing they have more of).
Dont be a trollWho believes this dumb shjt? LOLOL. Pretty sure the flattening of Mariupol says you're an idiot.
T72-B3s are worth approximately $10,000. I'm pretty sure Russia doesn't care if it loses another 1,000 of them.
I didn't mean that they were that cheap, just that they have so many tanks, probably more than they would ever need, especially when they get outdated.You know, Google is your friend, and anyone that wishes to check the veracity of your claim that they are only 10,000 each can easily check it for themselves.
I did, and your estimate of their cost is way off. They are approximately 1/2 a million per tank.
Ok... Finally found the video clip.
No worries the US is about to send Abrams tanks to the Ukraine. I'm sure that won't bite us in the ass later.
The Ukrainian Army Has More Tanks Now Than When the War Began
—24 Mar 2022 ~~ By David Axe
Because It Keeps Capturing Them From Russia
Ukraine has lost at least 74 tanks—destroyed or captured—since Russia widened its war on the country starting the night of Feb. 23.
But Ukraine has captured at least 117 Russian tanks, according to open-source-intelligence analysts who scrutinize photos and videos on social media.
In other words, the Ukrainian army might actually have more tanks now than a month ago—all without building a single brand-new tank or pulling some older vehicle out of storage.
The Russians meanwhile have captured at least 37 Ukrainian tanks—a sum inadequate to compensate for the roughly 274 tanks it is believed to have lost to all causes.
The disparity in captured tanks speaks to Russia’s lack of preparation for a high-intensity war against a determined foe. But it also speaks to the advantages any defender possesses over any attacker.
Russia must project forces into Ukraine scores or hundreds of miles, extending poorly-protected supply lines and risking front-line units running out of ammunition and fuel. Many of those tanks the Ukrainians have seized were just sitting there, out of gas, their crews having fled.
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The steady transfer to Ukraine, via captures, of hundreds upon hundreds of tanks, fighting vehicles, artillery, air-defense systems and trucks underlines the challenge Russia faces in achieving any of its strategic objectives in Ukraine.
The Kremlin realistically can’t kill its way to victory. Not as long as Ukraine, population 44 million, possesses reserves of human capital—and as long as the Ukrainians remain united in the defense of their homeland.
It’s telling that, at the same time Russia was begging Syria for a thousand mercenaries last week, Ukraine was mobilizing reserve echelons numbering 150,000 fresh troops.
Those reservists probably aren’t hurting for equipment. Many of them will fall in on some ex-Russian T-72, scrubbed clean of any evidence of its old crew and sporting freshly painted Ukrainian insignia.
Commentary:
Putin's military forces are fighting the wrong war. Their mentality is still fighting a European WW II war.
The Russian military leaders have no imagination. Typically, they shell positions, attack in large formations, and when their assaults failed, do it all over again.
They have misled their troops from the beginning.
"Russian doctrine relies on centralized command and control, while mission-style command and control—as the name suggests—relies on the individual initiative of every soldier, from the private to the general, not only to understand the mission but then to use their initiative to adapt to the exigencies of a chaotic and ever-changing battlefield in order to accomplish that mission. Although the Russian military has modernized under Vladimir Putin, it has never embraced the decentralized mission-style command-and-control structure that is the hallmark of NATO militaries, and that the Ukrainians have since adopted".
Is it conceivable that Ukraine forces are out fighting and making gains. Yes! They've begun gaining lost territory and capturing equipment from Russian attackers.
Ukraine’s Three-to-One Advantage
It’s not technology or tactics that has given Ukrainian fighters their greatest edge.www.theatlantic.com
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