Was bound to happen. Hopefully the crew made it out alright.
The Abrams was never designed to be immortal, the Abrams was designed for the crew to have maximum survivability.
Huh, TIL! Maybe I should cancel my order on wish.
Damn weren’t these like just recently fielded? I saw a video of one the other day. Think opsec on these need to be hyper tight because the loss of them is really really bad for political optics sadly.
Of course that sucks because one of the primary reasons Ukraine wants M1s is because they have an insanely high survivability rate for an MBT. If the crew survived you’re seeing these worked as intended. Can probably be salvaged too.
They’ve been operating near Avdiivka for over a month, according to the 47th Mechanized. It’s more surprising this is the first loss we’ve seen.
“Ukraine isn’t useing any of their Abrams near the front because they are scared of loosing them.” - Real comment I saw earlier today.
Yes that’s true. I the end it’s only a tank. It will be destroyed by even old tech.
