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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Aug 16, 2024, 01:41 PM Aug 16

Ukrainian soldiers, engineers add metal netting to US tanks and vehicles to protect against Russian drones

As Russia wages a protracted war of attrition, the Ukrainian military says it has made the most of the U.S. supplied Abrams tanks and Bradley armored vehicles.

As the vast use of drones has become a feature of the Ukrainian-Russian war, soldiers and engineers said they have found a new way to make their most precious vehicles even more protected and efficient on the battlefield. Videos posted on social media appeared to demonstrate how the vehicles and their crews survived on densely mined fields.

“Bradley is the best vehicle I’ve ever driven,” Oleksandr Shyrshyn, a soldier with the elite 47th Mechanized Brigade, told ABC News. “It’s precise, it’s safe, it’s super cool. Given the number of impacts on the battlefields, if we were still using our old IFV-1 or IFV-2, the losses [would have been] two or three times higher.”

U.S. officials said in 2023 they would send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. More than 100 Bradley vehicles have also been shipped to Ukraine to aid in its fight against Russia, the White House said.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/ukrainian-soldiers-engineers-add-metal-091048485.html

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Ukrainian soldiers, engineers add metal netting to US tanks and vehicles to protect against Russian drones (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 16 OP
They really are using the Bradley's very effectively underpants Aug 16 #1

underpants

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1. They really are using the Bradley's very effectively
Fri Aug 16, 2024, 01:54 PM
Aug 16

I saw an article about it a month or so ago.

It is very versatile and useful for all kinds of things.
I was on one for 3 years.

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