What is this? (Small drone obliterating modern tank?)

[Fort Fun Indiana]

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[Rambunctious]

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What is this? (Small drone obliterating modern tank?)

You will find out if you cheat in the election...lol....

 

[Hossfly]

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WETSU!

 

[westwall]

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It's an ATGM with a Top Attack warhead. Probably a TOW II, but could be a Javelin or a host of others.

 

[there4eyeM]

Small, agile, cheap and numerous is the future of defense. Big, slow and expensive is doomed.

 

[fncceo]

I've weaponized my drone ...

 

[Silver Cat]

Small, agile, cheap and numerous is the future of defense. Big, slow and expensive is doomed.

"Small, agile cheap and numerous" UAVs will not survive on the modern battlefield (with EW and nukes) . For example, our Russian friends see cheap, obsolet and numerous tanks with low-trained crews as some sort of recon, modern, fast and expensive tanks with nuclear shells as a main "crushing" force.
Something like this:

 

[there4eyeM]

What "won't survive" is humans.

 

[westwall]

Small, agile, cheap and numerous is the future of defense. Big, slow and expensive is doomed.

Those missiles aren't exactly cheap. The defense against them is a point defense system of your own, mounted to the tank.

It's a never ending battle, but people have been claiming tanks are done for 50 years, and yet here they are, still chugging along.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

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It's an ATGM with a Top Attack warhead. Probably a TOW II, but could be a Javelin or a host of others.

It seems like it hovered.

 

[westwall]

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It's an ATGM with a Top Attack warhead. Probably a TOW II, but could be a Javelin or a host of others.

It seems like it hovered.

Nope, that's due to visual perspective. The missile flew to, and over the target where the shaped charge exploded above the turret.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Queued up at 4:13...

It's an ATGM with a Top Attack warhead. Probably a TOW II, but could be a Javelin or a host of others.

It seems like it hovered.

Nope, that's due to visual perspective. The missile flew to, and over the target where the shaped charge exploded above the turret.

ahhhh, gotcha.

 

[Muhammed]

This is what a Javelin does to a Russian T-72 main battle tank.




The Javelin is a game changer in Ukraine. The Russians can't use their MBTs anymore and pulled them off the battlefield because of the Javelin threat after the Trump administration approved the sale of Raytheon's Javelins to Ukraine.

 

[Likkmee]

Thank Gawd the opium supply wont be interrupted

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The Javelin is a game changer in Ukraine. The Russians can't use their MBTs anymore and pulled them off the battlefield because of the Javelin threat after the Trump administration approved the sale of Raytheon's Javelins to Ukraine.

You're going to want to check that. Russian tanks were still in Ukraine as of last winter, and they just put 1100 tanks on ukraine's border.

Furthermore, a condition of the sale of the javelins is that they cannot be used in the conflict zone. So none have been or can be used.

Basically, we made it a rule that they cant actually use them against the pro russian separatists.

 

[22lcidw]

Small, agile, cheap and numerous is the future of defense. Big, slow and expensive is doomed.

We have to go that way. Building big ticket defense and consumer products is more and more expensive domestically.

 

[Bleipriester]

This is what a Javelin does to a Russian T-72 main battle tank.




The Javelin is a game changer in Ukraine. The Russians can't use their MBTs anymore and pulled them off the battlefield because of the Javelin threat after the Trump administration approved the sale of Raytheon's Javelins to Ukraine.

What Russians and there is an agreement to withdraw heavy weapons.

 

[Silver Cat]

You're going to want to check that. Russian tanks were still in Ukraine as of last winter, and they just put 1100 tanks on ukraine's border.

All sides of the conflict use Russian tanks, you know.

 

[Silver Cat]

Basically, we made it a rule that they cant actually use them against the pro russian separatists.

I'm not sure, that it is correct to call them "separatists". Actually, all sides are "integratists" - all of them declare that they want to join a larger project. Some of them want to join the EU, some of them want to join Russia, some of them want to join Turkey.
No one of them wants to join the USA, and may be, it is our mistake.

 

[Silver Cat]

This is what a Javelin does to a Russian T-72 main battle tank.




The Javelin is a game changer in Ukraine. The Russians can't use their MBTs anymore and pulled them off the battlefield because of the Javelin threat after the Trump administration approved the sale of Raytheon's Javelins to Ukraine.

What Russians and there is an agreement to withdraw heavy weapons.

Yes, but this agreement (as many others) was violated by pro-EU militants. Actually the EU is non-negotiable.