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U.S. Says Main Thrust of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the Armata actually good? I've met tons of tank buffs that all shit on it while favoring the T-34??? (for it's time), but idk shit about military hardware, like a week ago I assumed being a tanker was like the safest thing to be in the military, but apparently you can only survive or die absolutely terribly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Armata is untested. Therefore it's "not good". T-34 was a great tank for its time, but it still had some "teething problems" so to speak. It has taken the designers and engineers a few versions to make it good. Likewise with AKs - what we usually call "AK-47" is actually AKM - modified version of the original design. Untested hardware will inevitably produce issues.

And no, being a tanker is very far from anything resembling safe. Not even if you're a NATO tanker, bulldozing civvies in the middle East. Much less if you are in an actual conflict with an actual military.