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This could be superb intelligence letting them hit the air defence and artillery command vehicles etc.
I think partly superb intelligence aided by EU and US but also skilful use of drones and ground reconaissance. Also probably helps to have civilians with phones too.
Those photos of Russian tanks with turrets popped off and barrels nailed into the ground are crazy. Not something I'd expect to see in 2022.
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Is It the ammunition on T72s auto loader blowing up
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I don't know how much of this is propaganda to scare Russian soldiers, but this article seems to answer the question. The short version is that the Russians can't shoot down the drones at night, so the operators take their time to select the best targets. https://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-drone-unit-strikes-russian-targets-while-they-sleep-the-times-2022-3?r=US&IR=T
It must be terrifying for the Russian tank and vehicle crews. I knew a former Abrams tanker in the US. He was constantly terrified of burning to death even in peacetime, because quite a few Abrams caught fire. He was also scared of drowning or asphyxiating in Iraq, because the Abrams had quite a high C of G, and lots of the roads were on an embankment alongside a canal or river. If the tank rolled over into the water the crew couldn't get out. No escape hatch on the bottom as in Fury. There wasn't much rescue equipment for tanks, and there was a lot of pressure to keep the attack going fast. So if you were in an upside down tank in a canal you could expect to be left to your fate.
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nick_h.
The advice I was given by an old CSM (infantry obs)was stay away from tanks because every f****r wants to kill them.
If the photos are representative the Ukrainians are hitting a disproportionately large number of armoured personal carriers and specialty vehicles. Not many actual tanks, the tanks they are hitting seem to be catastrophic hits, turrets blown off not just mobility kills.
This could be superb intelligence letting them hit the air defence and artillery command vehicles etc.