By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-05 00:06:00 | Updated at 2025-01-06 21:22:01
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Ukraine's Abrams tanks outshine Russian counterparts in battle
Daily Wrap via MSN ^ | 2 January 2025 | Mateusz Tomczak
Posted on 01/04/2025 3:59:15 PM PST by Apparatchik
An article featuring statements from Ukrainian soldiers about American Abrams tanks was published on Business Insider. Although the war with Russia has shown that they are not invincible, their capabilities and equipment have been rated much better than Soviet-era and even newer Russian tanks.
"It's better than T-72, T-62, and even Russian T-90," said a Ukrainian Abrams tank commander quoted by Business Insider.
The Ukrainians pointed out that the Soviet-era T-series tanks are smaller and lighter than Abrams tanks. As a result, they are somewhat harder targets, but on the other hand, they have weaker armour and do not provide the crew with as high a level of protection as the American machines. Additionally, the latter are equipped with powerful engines (1,500 horsepower), which provide good mobility in the field and the ability to reach maximum speeds on roads of up to 70 km/h.
As part of support from the United States, Ukraine received 31 Abrams tanks in the M1A1 variant. According to data provided by the authors of the Oryx blog, whose goal is to document the equipment losses sustained by the parties fighting in Ukraine, Russians have already eliminated 17 such American tanks. Some of them have been destroyed and damaged, and a few units have been captured and taken to Russia.
"It's an infinitely superior system. The A1 may be old in the sense that it's been in our inventory for quite some time, but it's far superior to anything that the Russians have," military expert Robert Greenway told Business Insider.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: abrams; soviet; superiority; tanks
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1 posted on 01/04/2025 3:59:15 PM PST by Apparatchik
To: Apparatchik
And the Tiger outshone the T-34 in most cases. Ukraine cannot win with tanks.
2 posted on 01/04/2025 4:03:37 PM PST by toddausauras
To: Apparatchik
3 posted on 01/04/2025 4:05:11 PM PST by Allegra (Less finger-wagging would be appreciated . )
To: Apparatchik
Tanks only work in specific situations. We need to find a way to end that conflict.
4 posted on 01/04/2025 4:05:26 PM PST by lurk (u)
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