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In reply to the discussion: Russia is dusting off antique tanks from the 1940s, monitor group says, as its losses mount in Ukrai [View all]Botany
(76,159 posts)11. And we are sending M-1 Tanks that as they are moving 50 mph can hit a target @ 500 meters or more
... those rounds will be dead nuts on and those shells will be shaped charges that will burn through
armor and once through the armor and into a fresh source of O2 @ which point a fireball will incinerate
everybody inside the vehicle or building it hits.
And both the French and Swedish are sending artillery pieces that can drop shells on target from > 1 km
away .... come spring any Russian inside Ukraine including Crimea will be in peril of his or her death.
BTW never forget that Trump, Fox News, and the members of the Republican party support Putin in his war of
aggression against the people of Ukraine and his kidnapping of 14,000 Ukrainian children. They are on the wrong
side of history. Fuck 'em.
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Russia is dusting off antique tanks from the 1940s, monitor group says, as its losses mount in Ukrai [View all]
blue-wave
Mar 2023
OP
They might be using them for other things other than front line combat such patrolling the varies
cstanleytech
Mar 2023
#1
Yeah, and really any tank if our side doesn't totally control the air. It still couldn't be safe
brewens
Mar 2023
#5
The Israelis used a heavily-modified model of the Sherman as a second-line tank
Aristus
Mar 2023
#33
By the end of WWII the Sherman model they called the "Easy 8" was vastly improved over
brewens
Mar 2023
#39
An inexperienced driver isn't going to be able to handle the T-55 in any purposeful manner.
Aristus
Mar 2023
#34
In 8 months, it'll be muskets. 7 months after that will be armored suits on horses.
nattyice
Mar 2023
#6
And we are sending M-1 Tanks that as they are moving 50 mph can hit a target @ 500 meters or more
Botany
Mar 2023
#11
The last big tank battle in Ukraine around Bakmut had the Russians loosing all but 2 of the tanks ..
Botany
Mar 2023
#15
Actually the depleted uranium shells aren't any more radioactive then granite is
EX500rider
Mar 2023
#53
Good! Now NATO can dust off their older anti-tank weapons, and start using them up too! No sense
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2023
#40
"Open source photographs show T54 and T55 Soviet tanks, first put in service in the 1940's ..."
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2023
#44
Yeah I can't imagine the US military storing some M26 pershings for later use
EX500rider
Mar 2023
#51