re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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WTF do you think they expect to learn from an M1A1 without the special armor composite?


AHAHAHA I knew this excuse was coming. "b-b-but the abrams don't have the special armor!"

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It does not have the depleted uranium armor and all of the classified electronic gear was removed and swapped out for foreign gear. For example the optics were swapped out for French made optics that Russia already has access to since it was buying the optics for its T90s from France prior to 2014. The armor on the Abrams in Ukraine is the same export armor that is on the Abrams that the USA sold to Iraq and Saudi Arabia which Russia and Iran had access to because Saudi Arabia had quite a few M1s knocked out in their Yemen campaign. I do not know if the depleted uranium armor would have made a difference because from the videos I have seen each Abrams that has been destroyed was either hit by a drone on top of the ammunition bustle which has very thin armor to allow shells to explode upwards without killing the crew or took multiple hits from ATGMs. The M1s seemed to survive the first 2 hits but the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and even 6th hit pretty much did them in.