There’s definitely that, but in another article that was posted recently a Ukrainian abrams crewman says the fucking things don’t work well in fog and rain because condensation shorts out the electronics. I’m sure these aren’t well maintained hardware but that’s just a ridiculous design flaw that could only “work” if your tanks only ever spend time in the desert.
The entire NATO military doctrine mandates air superiority and despite all the wonderweapons, the US can only achieve air superiority against shpeherds
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?”
The export models also have different electronics as well, as some of the lastest sights/night vision is also classified. So likely some contractor did a shoddy job changing out the electronics for the non classified stuff, so everything shorts out, or the tank wasn’t designed for it in the first place. It’s definitely a ridiculous design flaw if the entire tank shorts out when changing electronic systems out.
They have also veen in service since 1980. Western countries have just been unloading all their shitty old inventory on Ukraine. I would be shocked if any of the tabks Ukraine received are less than 20 years old
There’s definitely that, but in another article that was posted recently a Ukrainian abrams crewman says the fucking things don’t work well in fog and rain because condensation shorts out the electronics. I’m sure these aren’t well maintained hardware but that’s just a ridiculous design flaw that could only “work” if your tanks only ever spend time in the desert.
It seems to me like this might be the absolute biggest problem.
The entire NATO military doctrine mandates air superiority and despite all the wonderweapons, the US can only achieve air superiority against shpeherds
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?”
“Hey boss, found this in the back of the shed. Think it’s useful?”
The subsonic Batman plane that can’t fly in the rain will get there when it gets there, OK?
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.
The export models also have different electronics as well, as some of the lastest sights/night vision is also classified. So likely some contractor did a shoddy job changing out the electronics for the non classified stuff, so everything shorts out, or the tank wasn’t designed for it in the first place. It’s definitely a ridiculous design flaw if the entire tank shorts out when changing electronic systems out.
They have also veen in service since 1980. Western countries have just been unloading all their shitty old inventory on Ukraine. I would be shocked if any of the tabks Ukraine received are less than 20 years old