I think there’s a new one now, isn’t there, from march? Of a “destroyed” Abrams, where the crew got out safely, turret still attached and probably recoverable.
I remember on some military channel how tank crews were terrified of burning up inside a tank (a common fate in WWII) and so the A1 was made as fireproof as they possibly could make it.
It may have just been history channel propaganda, though.
They are still reposting that one picture of a burning Abrams from the 90s I think?
I think there’s a new one now, isn’t there, from march? Of a “destroyed” Abrams, where the crew got out safely, turret still attached and probably recoverable.
There’s a couple of photos of abrams with fracked tracks that they’ve been claiming are “destroyed”, that’s been pretty great.
Well, if that happens on the retreat, that’s still a loss of a vehicle. But losing a crew is almost always worse.
“Almost always?”
I remember on some military channel how tank crews were terrified of burning up inside a tank (a common fate in WWII) and so the A1 was made as fireproof as they possibly could make it.
It may have just been history channel propaganda, though.
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-abrams-tanks-19d71475d427875653a2130063a8fb7a
Drones have changed everything.