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2024-06-13 Science & Technology

Why have so many US-made Abrams tanks been destroyed in Ukraine?

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-13 00:39|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [210 views ] Top

#1 If I use a battlefield rifle as as heavy artillery and my enemy responds with actual artillery, then I am using the rifle in the way it was never intended.

So it is with the Abrams.

Posted by badanov 2024-06-13 08:05|| 2024-06-13 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 'What is the sword compared to the hand that holds it?'. There aren't any magic weapons, the very concept being a primarily leftist trope.

It is training, discipline, unit cohesion, and solid, well understood and long practiced tactics that create battlefield success.

Posted by Cesare 2024-06-13 08:30|| 2024-06-13 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Armor can't survive on the battlefield without air superiority. From the WWII and on.
What's been different in Ukraine has been the ad-hoc nature of the anti armor airstrikes. Everybody and his cousin can go tank plinking.
Haven't noticed huge numbers of Merkava's being nailed in Gaza. Abrams did well in Iraq.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-06-13 08:46|| 2024-06-13 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 What model Abrams and when were they designed?

Posted by Mercutio 2024-06-13 08:59|| 2024-06-13 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 ...its up there with the M2 (Ma Deuce), B52, and other designs that are all about as good as one can make. The Abrams is designed to work in a combined arms environment something the Ukies and Russkies have a hard time to execute.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-13 10:39|| 2024-06-13 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Sure feels like they were given a really nice cordless screwdriver, and they are just rotating the entire tool around manually.

Could have triggered WWIII over it, and they just start using it like a hammer.

Worse, once again, another opponent gets to learn how to fight one of the premier tools in the military being operated at 1/4 its capacity; all sorts of relatively free practice.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-13 12:35|| 2024-06-13 12:35|| Front Page Top

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