Thumpalumpacus
Lieutenant Colonel
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Putin is more a Tea guy.
Ukraine MOD announcing stormy weather this summer in Crimea beaches.
View: https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1675520563073220610
An excellent choice..... from a criminally-underrated album. Just sayin'.......
I love it but I cannot find it anywhere except twitter and I refuse to use that.
I want to pass it on.
Anybody calling these things "tanks" should be demoted to latrine cleaner.I admit to not being surprised by this report on the AMX10RC. However I did expect the armour to be sufficient to deal with shrapnel.
Source The Guardian
A Ukrainian commander has claimed the highly mobile French AMX-10 RC infantry fighting vehicles – sometimes described as light tanks – are "impractical" for frontline attacks, claiming one four-man crew has already died because of the vehicle's thin armour.
President Zelenskiy of Ukraine thanked France's President Macron for sending light combat tanks to Kyiv, and Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine's defence minister, was filmed riding in one.
Kyiv said in April that the French vehicles – designed for armed reconnaissance and attacks on enemy tanks – were already in service.
But AFP reports that a 34-year-old battalion commander within the 37th Marine Brigade, who uses the call sign Spartanets, said the tanks' "thin armour" means they can be used as fire support, but not in frontline assaults.
"Unfortunately, there was one case when the crew died in the vehicle," the major told AFP.
"There was artillery shelling and a shell exploded near the vehicle, the fragments pierced the armour and the ammunition set detonated." The crew of four inside were all killed, he said.
"The guns are good, the observation devices are very good. But unfortunately there is thin armour and it is impractical to use them in the front line (attack)," Spartanets said.
The battalion commander reportedly compared the French-built vehicles unfavourably with MRAP-type armoured vehicles such as the US's Oshkosh and Britain's Husky, which he said could resist a direct strike by rocket-propelled grenades.
The AMX 10 RC fires specific 105×527R ammunitions.Thread by @ChrisO_wiki on Thread Reader App
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