The M-1 is a tough tank. But it’s no more invulnerable than any tank is. Get used to seeing them wrecked and abandoned in Ukraine.
  • miz@lemmygrad.ml
    362·
    8 months ago

    a war that has eaten more than 6,000 Russian tanks and at least 700 Ukrainian ones

    hasan-ok-dude

  • DomingoRojo@lemmygrad.ml
    212·
    8 months ago

    Lol, 7 6000 Russian tanks down 😂

    EDIT: note said 6000, not 7000… I am still laughing.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      133·
      8 months ago

      I don’t know if it’s more hilarious that they’re still printing these absurd numbers or that people are still parroting them uncritically.

      • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        8 months ago

        still parroting them uncritically

        This part isn’t hilarious, it’s sad and bordering on frightening

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          41·
          8 months ago

          These people are going to have to deal with reality sooner than later at this point, and it’s gonna be a hard pill to swallow.

  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
    191·
    8 months ago

    “Something, something shitty Russian USian tanks are so weak, you hit them once and all the ammo cooks off!”

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      8 months ago

      Remember when yanks and yankee stans were all foaming at the mouth about how super clever abrams design has ammo in a separate storage, with an armoured screen shielding the crew? IIRC it’s also supposed to be kept wet too. “Not like stoopid asiatic sovok design which has no care for the life of the crew and keeps ammo in the tank, alongside the so dangerous autoloader!!!111”

      I remember. I remember it well.

      • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        Far too well. I know some tech bros who have a regular NAFO circle jerk and this shit was right up their alley.

        It’s made.it really hard to interact with any of them since finding out about it.

        • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          8 months ago

          See also the discussion here. Thirty years after USSR was demolished, yanks copied soviet weapons platforms and started selling them as brand new, no analogues evar, exclusive genius ideas. And they couldn’t even copy them right

          • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
            3·
            8 months ago

            Oh fucking hell. I should have guessed. I work in the public sector and the private always takes our work as well as the credit via public-private partnerships. Same thing they’ve always done. These capitalist fuckers can’t even invent their own stuff anymore.