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US Abrams tanks failing in Ukraine as Russia mocks them as ‘empty tin cans’ (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ukrainian crews say the fundamental problem is that the Abrams were built for advances aided by air power and artillery, which Ukraine lacks.

It seems to me like this might be the absolute biggest problem.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The entire NATO military doctrine mandates air superiority and despite all the wonderweapons, the US can only achieve air superiority against shpeherds

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

base your entire military doctrine around air superiority

fight the other former superpower that also knows this and therefore has world leading air defence

??????
all my tanks broke

There's gotta be like 100 US STRATCOM guys shitting, pissing, screaming about this exact scenario to no avail as they keep sending more equipment that gets owned by a by some late 70s soviet stockpile shit with an accountable value of "Wait, why do we still have this?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

"wait, why do we still have this?"

"Hey boss, found this in the back of the shed. Think it's useful?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

The subsonic Batman plane that can't fly in the rain will get there when it gets there, OK?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

All of Americas combat doctrine assumes you're doing strafing runs on rural farmers and have total air superiority.

We have no idea how to fight an actual peer.