Shy during the summer months the male T 80 becomes territorial and aggressive in winter as it goes into the mating season. During the winter T 80s can be seen prominading in the open fields they have claimed as their own all the while keeping a watchful eye on the horizon for a suitable mate.
I think a mine set it's arse on fire, then arty came in - whatever, hopefully Ruzzians keep using these sophisticated Combined Arms tactics that work so well for them :)
They are working on a tactic-strategic update that will improve its effectiveness: The BMP will carry a soundsystem, centrally connected to the command post via bluetooth, blasting the Benny Hill theme at full volume.
If Ruskie keeps sending more tanks, the Ukrainians may run out. That appears to be the strategy. After-all, that's what the West is trying to do, and there's no more sincere a form of flattery than copying.
@@obsidianjane4413 It’s not overwatch when you’re not being overwatched, get it? “Go see if there’s a minefield over there. Don’t worry, we’re right behind you.” It’s a shit sandwich and the fng has to take the first bite. Now that that’s out of the way and you’ve ascertained that it is indeed a shit sandwich, are you going to take the second bite?
I'm of the opinion that that tank hit a mine just before it's gun fired. The gun seems to have been aimed low, since it appears that the shell explodes when it hits a tree in the tree line. The shot may have been accidental, since the crew might not have been feeling their best after hitting a mine.
they reversed into a mine, while trying to position themselves to shoot at Ukrainian targets. I also think they just shot the already loaded main gun by accident (wounded crew)
"What were they hoping to achieve" is what I ask myself with a lot of these. I *assume* they must be having at least some minor success in using their tanks 'properly' with support and other tanks, and that because they are more likely to succeed that way we do not see footage of it as a result, survivorship bias and all. *However* the fact that these clips of unsupported solo tanks *keep happening at all* is telling us that they really must have some kind of problem with using them properly. If it were one or two incidents we could overlook it as a fluke, but this seems more widespread
For Russians manpower and equipment is worthless, they aspire to exhaust Ukrainian ammo with these baits. Their problem is, Ukrainian artillery is deadly precise, so they won't exhaust it so quickly as they hope.
You 100% right, but you must know that in the mind of russian generals/strategists : the method works just fine because "look at the map, we have 20% of ukrainian territory". There is no further analysis, no discussion ; it works.
"Zipping its way along" - Sucho, you always make me feel fond of the wee tank, and then it gets hit ("comes a-cropper"). But its an invading tank, so the fondness does not last long.
I always thought tanks operated in pairs, and usually with infantry support. But at this point I have seen dozens & dozens of videos of single tanks on the battlefield.
NATO tanks operated in pairs, with 2 pairs making up a platoon. Its the smallest tactical unit, and you'd never see a movement, much less a deliberate attack like this with just a single tank. Thing is, a Russian tank platoon is 3 vehicles so that is their smallest formation, so by their doctrine this should also never happen. But there they are and they keep doing it. Both this level of tactical incompetence and an inability to scrape together enough combat capable vehicles are really hard to comprehend. The real why will probably have to wait until the books come out in a few years.
@@obsidianjane4413 Well, a platoon can suffer losses and keep fighting at half strength. Given their negative experience traveling in dense columns, they may also have decided that movements should be done more spread out, maintaining 1km between vehicles in formation which is still close enough to cover each other with 2.2km weapons range.
At 0:21 you see infantry fire an RPG type weapon in the bottom left of the screen that misses. This round then explodes 100m behind the tank. I believe it was not artillery but a direct fire weapon or mine.
certainly not infantry in that place/direction, such shots come from directed AT mines like the german DM22 ... which Ukraine uses a lot for the entire war now.
wow--great eyes! I didn't spot that at all, and took me a few repeats to spot it even after tyou pointed it out. The blast behind the tank I took to be artillery, but it was this.
I have enjoyed your video clips, but there might be a lot more that you are leaving on the table. For example, slow this one down to 0.25 speed. A small Ukraine unit might have advanced through this line of trees. Tracer rounds (:32) suggest at least 3 automatic weapons, perhaps firing at a target in the field or into the nearby town. A single Russian tank advances to neutralize the presumably, lightly-armed unit. He fires one round (:16) to shake things up, and prevent someone from firing on him as he moves into position behind two other carcasses, providing 20-45 degrees of cover, So far, all good small unit/tank tactics. But the Ukraine unit has learned to spot your anti-tank operator at a different angle - perhaps have at least two RPG operators? The tank pivots and fires at the lead Ukraine position. There might also be flashes in the nearby row indicating action there, too.
My gut says they got drunk and went out to avenge their mates, their fates, and their motherland. This is a defeated tank, streaking to glory. Thelma and Louise style.
Sucho, beware of attempts to pawn off the tank crew's behavior to inferior Russian tactics or weapons and equipment technicalities. John Hersey's classic WWII novel, "The War Lover" points in another direction. Risk-fueled adrenaline addiction. A syndrome that affected both sides. Something to consider.
My thoughts are the tank was 'locked and loaded' and fired as a result of it being hit instead of purposefully firing. I guess we will never know, happily of course.
It's unreal. I mean at the start of the war they were somewhat slightly better organized in mechanized formation, but as we saw they still got destroyed quite often due to bad organization, tactics and logistics etc. Take Operation Desert Storm as a similar scenario, the US and allies moved with extreme formation and precise unity knowing the terrain in both land, air and sea, enemy movements, limitations etc. And suffered very minimal losses of that war and complete dominance, but in Ukraine something crucial just seemed to have just been entirely missing from the start for Russia. I know you could argue the Ukrainians are better equipped and full of spirit compared to the Iraqis of back then but still, it is telling how disorganized the Russians are in all reality. No planning or communication whatsoever. Instances like this just say it all.
What was it hoping to achieve/ no support etc etc , love the commentary sir Seem to sum up the moral and mindset of the diminishing so called great Russian army can’t see them getting any better Keep the vids coming & thankyou,, I can almost set my clock off your postings 😂 UAF 🇺🇦❤️
The tank rolled backwards onto a mine. Then the main cannon fired into the trees, probably because the crew was shocked and accidentally bumped a control. Firing the main cannon caused the breached cabin to ignite
I have seen several videos of this location and it is clear that tanks and bmp’s are being set out without any regard for the situation, so we see a group of four or five destroyed tanks and bmp’s being approached by another three vehicles. The first is hit and crashes into an already destroyed vehicle. The second one is arriving at full speed than sees the first one destroyed and does a swift 180, but gets hit anyway. A third vehicle passed the now smoking second one and ….. need I say more?
Given where the shots that missed landed, I'd say the rounds hitting the ground came from another tank, to the bottom left corner of the video, and the third shot hit. Probably a kinetic penetrator round given the lack of explosion when it hits the ground. If artillery were hitting the ground it'd look like more than a puff of dirt.
Mentioned tank crew reminded me your average random Post Scriptum tankist. They all think a tank is "the tank" and infantry is just dirt on a shoe. All this lasts about 30 seconds on initiating first fire.
I'm an armchair officer, but wouldn't all the scorch marks and burned out vehicle be a pretty good sign that there is trouble ahead, like mines and dialed in artillery?
This is how they won WWII in their minds. They've conveniently forgotten that they would have lost without American and allied support, fuel, equipment and ammo. They've become victims of their own propaganda.
They keep doing these idiotic attempts to appease the higher ups. On paper they can claim attempted assault even if it's sending 1 tank on a suicide mission.
I'm wondering with all the Russian losses who is left to drive the tanks? I would think it would take a lot of training. Russia hasn't shown itself to be big on combined arms strategy.
I used to be an infantryman,and just had some training in planning ambushes against columns.Can anybody explain to me what the hell is a single tank doing going on it’s own,on an open field and down a suspected heavily mined track.I just can’t figure it out by myself.Did I fall asleep at infantry school and missed the better part?Best wishes to all Ukranians,specially those in uniform!Khuilo Putin!
Some say russia has called in more strikes to take down tall buildings in vulydar so they can do the usual roll in over a flat city. The rains are slowing them down now
At 0:27 there is a flash/puff of smoke out in the open snow covered area on the right, mid way between the tree line and the side of the image. It coincides almost perfectly with the initial detonation of the tank, so I suspect it was a infantry launched anti-tank weapon or RPG
Good spot. I think the spot is the incoming missile fired from off screen to the right caught in that single frame. The tank had already had a near miss from the bottom left that caused the explosion behind it.
There is no artillery bracketing the tank, those other explosions look like mortar rounds, the tank seems like it hit a mine with the way the dirt shoots out from under the tank. The round going off is not a deliberate shot, more like the round cooking off in the chamber or the explosion from the mine forcing a firing of the chambered round. It fires low.
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It must be rather depressing to be a Russian tanker driving forward and passing the hulks that the Ukrainians had no difficulty destroying. How does one listen to the orders to join the death parade without shooting the S.O.B. who issued them?
Phantom Ninjar spotted it..about 22 seconds into video, Rpg or something fired from the tree line (bottom left) ahead of the Tank, missed and detonated some way behind Ivan before he was marmarlised by something else.😄
Other analysis says its a mine and its consistent with an AT mine going off under the right hand track and setting the fuel tank off. "what were they trying to achieved?" Col. Dumbfuckski: "Ivan, take your tank over there and see if there are still mines." Ivan: "..." As usual, the biggest incompetence here is that the tank is completely unsupported. Most videos shows that a bit later a couple of BMPs try the same path and meet a similar fate.
Sending singular tanks out like that is a doctrine they use. Instead of sending a foot patrol out they send single tanks around. They did that all the time in Syria too. Or they'd send an entire platoon of tanks around to patrol city streets - one tank at a time down roads. Ate a lot of RPG's from buildings that's for sure. They have so many tanks they don't care if they lose them.
They did the same things in Syria I'm seeing here -- you'd see a whole column of armor pull into a town, stop by the side of the road for whatever reason and start taking fire. Instead of having dismounted infantry patrolling around the area first. It wasn't until they put that Russian General in charge where you'd see videos of dismounted infantry clearing out the area of ambushes - half of which were in tennis shoes and no helmets.
it may just be the quality of the video, but in the field right of the tank just before the hit, theres some sort of movement/spark looking thing pass across the snow. like i said, might just be the quality of the video
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Shy during the summer months the male T 80 becomes territorial and aggressive in winter as it goes into the mating season. During the winter T 80s can be seen prominading in the open fields they have claimed as their own all the while keeping a watchful eye on the horizon for a suitable mate.
Strangely, for this species, it seems to be the male that gets penetrated.
and then it sets its ar5e on fire and spaffs its load randomly?
@@Tom_Quixote The cheek on you! Lol
If it wanted to get screwed, then mission accomplished!
I think a mine set it's arse on fire, then arty came in - whatever, hopefully Ruzzians keep using these sophisticated Combined Arms tactics that work so well for them :)
Yes, the tank appears to stop, turn left and then back up over a mine.
They are working on a tactic-strategic update that will improve its effectiveness: The BMP will carry a soundsystem, centrally connected to the command post via bluetooth, blasting the Benny Hill theme at full volume.
@@VFella With Henry McGee chasing them around in a Humvee with a .50cal
Well its not for nothing... Ukraine lost an artillery shell while Russia lost the tank. 🙂
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If Ruskie keeps sending more tanks, the Ukrainians may run out. That appears to be the strategy. After-all, that's what the West is trying to do, and there's no more sincere a form of flattery than copying.
Wonder why this guy doesn't cover all of Ukraine's tank losses that come up, while showing only Russian ones.
Lone tank = the more experienced tankers telling the new guys, “We’re right behind you.”
That would be "overwatch" and they're aren't even doing that. The nearest other vehicles are way back behind the tree line.
@@obsidianjane4413 It’s not overwatch when you’re not being overwatched, get it? “Go see if there’s a minefield over there. Don’t worry, we’re right behind you.” It’s a shit sandwich and the fng has to take the first bite. Now that that’s out of the way and you’ve ascertained that it is indeed a shit sandwich, are you going to take the second bite?
It seems you could gain greater tactical skill playing a Close Combat videogame for a weekend than by going to Russian Officer Training.
Squad for sure
It's what happens when merit is not the main criterion for advancement.
And what about you andrew? You should fight for putins army with wagners zombies in bakhmut you are so expert talking shit
Nice throwback.
Even in the Close Combat series, the Ruzkies didn't have this bad cohesion, intelligence and performance... maybe they should patch it
They have training?
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Leroy? His cousin served in the paras at Hostomel; Jethro Hillybillsky.
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I'm of the opinion that that tank hit a mine just before it's gun fired. The gun seems to have been aimed low, since it appears that the shell explodes when it hits a tree in the tree line. The shot may have been accidental, since the crew might not have been feeling their best after hitting a mine.
Yes. They might be just clearing the breach for a safer exit.
If you slow it down frame by frame then its a mine.
they reversed into a mine, while trying to position themselves to shoot at Ukrainian targets. I also think they just shot the already loaded main gun by accident (wounded crew)
Yes, look like an accidental discharge.
@@hansybarra Premature one might even say. 😏 I hear orcs do have a problem in that area.😂
Little ivan was like : GO FAST THEY WON'T HIT US!!!!
And then the eurobeat kicked in
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"What were they hoping to achieve" is what I ask myself with a lot of these. I *assume* they must be having at least some minor success in using their tanks 'properly' with support and other tanks, and that because they are more likely to succeed that way we do not see footage of it as a result, survivorship bias and all. *However* the fact that these clips of unsupported solo tanks *keep happening at all* is telling us that they really must have some kind of problem with using them properly. If it were one or two incidents we could overlook it as a fluke, but this seems more widespread
For Russians manpower and equipment is worthless, they aspire to exhaust Ukrainian ammo with these baits. Their problem is, Ukrainian artillery is deadly precise, so they won't exhaust it so quickly as they hope.
You 100% right, but you must know that in the mind of russian generals/strategists : the method works just fine because "look at the map, we have 20% of ukrainian territory". There is no further analysis, no discussion ; it works.
Since the very beginning of this war you can see 2 things: Poor logistics and no supporting Infanterie at Russian side
That made me laugh so much,I could feel your total disbelief in every word,brilliant 🤣 😄 😂
That quote goes for the entire invasion it seems.
"Zipping its way along" - Sucho, you always make me feel fond of the wee tank, and then it gets hit ("comes a-cropper"). But its an invading tank, so the fondness does not last long.
Good tank crews, along with good commanders are hard to find in Bolshevikville these days. Excellent gunnery on Ukraines part
They just left the guns trained on their previous successful hits, and waited for the next batch to arrive at the exact same spot.
I always thought tanks operated in pairs, and usually with infantry support. But at this point I have seen dozens & dozens of videos of single tanks on the battlefield.
They didn't have Google maps and got lost which resulted in more bbq orcs
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NATO tanks operated in pairs, with 2 pairs making up a platoon. Its the smallest tactical unit, and you'd never see a movement, much less a deliberate attack like this with just a single tank.
Thing is, a Russian tank platoon is 3 vehicles so that is their smallest formation, so by their doctrine this should also never happen. But there they are and they keep doing it.
Both this level of tactical incompetence and an inability to scrape together enough combat capable vehicles are really hard to comprehend.
The real why will probably have to wait until the books come out in a few years.
@@obsidianjane4413 Well, a platoon can suffer losses and keep fighting at half strength. Given their negative experience traveling in dense columns, they may also have decided that movements should be done more spread out, maintaining 1km between vehicles in formation which is still close enough to cover each other with 2.2km weapons range.
At 0:21 you see infantry fire an RPG type weapon in the bottom left of the screen that misses. This round then explodes 100m behind the tank.
I believe it was not artillery but a direct fire weapon or mine.
certainly not infantry in that place/direction, such shots come from directed AT mines like the german DM22 ... which Ukraine uses a lot for the entire war now.
@@diedampfbrasse98 Could definatley be a DM22. I'm just seeing a rocket launch that misses.
wow--great eyes! I didn't spot that at all, and took me a few repeats to spot it even after tyou pointed it out. The blast behind the tank I took to be artillery, but it was this.
Great catch seeing that
I have enjoyed your video clips, but there might be a lot more that you are leaving on the table.
For example, slow this one down to 0.25 speed.
A small Ukraine unit might have advanced through this line of trees. Tracer rounds (:32) suggest at least 3 automatic weapons, perhaps firing at a target in the field or into the nearby town. A single Russian tank advances to neutralize the presumably, lightly-armed unit. He fires one round (:16) to shake things up, and prevent someone from firing on him as he moves into position behind two other carcasses, providing 20-45 degrees of cover, So far, all good small unit/tank tactics.
But the Ukraine unit has learned to spot your anti-tank operator at a different angle - perhaps have at least two RPG operators? The tank pivots and fires at the lead Ukraine position.
There might also be flashes in the nearby row indicating action there, too.
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"Hey Vlad, shouldn't we be using combined arms?"
"You are driving tank with two arms, Dimitry. Is good enough!"
My gut says they got drunk and went out to avenge their mates, their fates, and their motherland. This is a defeated tank, streaking to glory. Thelma and Louise style.
Sucho, beware of attempts to pawn off the tank crew's behavior to inferior Russian tactics or weapons and equipment technicalities. John Hersey's classic WWII novel, "The War Lover" points in another direction. Risk-fueled adrenaline addiction. A syndrome that affected both sides. Something to consider.
My thoughts are the tank was 'locked and loaded' and fired as a result of it being hit instead of purposefully firing. I guess we will never know, happily of course.
Yeah probably they just fired in frustration at a general direction, and only hit a tree...
It's unreal. I mean at the start of the war they were somewhat slightly better organized in mechanized formation, but as we saw they still got destroyed quite often due to bad organization, tactics and logistics etc. Take Operation Desert Storm as a similar scenario, the US and allies moved with extreme formation and precise unity knowing the terrain in both land, air and sea, enemy movements, limitations etc. And suffered very minimal losses of that war and complete dominance, but in Ukraine something crucial just seemed to have just been entirely missing from the start for Russia. I know you could argue the Ukrainians are better equipped and full of spirit compared to the Iraqis of back then but still, it is telling how disorganized the Russians are in all reality. No planning or communication whatsoever. Instances like this just say it all.
It looks like it hit a mine when it backed into it, setting off a mine it missed underneath. The last shot was because it cooked off in the barrel.
I hope "monument to failure" sticks as we discuss the aftermath when this mess is over this summer!
Im hopeful it will be summer 2023!
What was it hoping to achieve/ no support etc etc , love the commentary sir
Seem to sum up the moral and mindset of the diminishing so called great Russian army
can’t see them getting any better
Keep the vids coming & thankyou,, I can almost set my clock off your postings 😂
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Advance to contact has a whole new meaning for Orcs.
This area is soon to become the biggest tank graveyard ever
It’ll be enhanced with the incoming junior NATO tank battalion.
@@KishorTwist too right there will be twice as many burning ruSSian tat tanks.
Russia only lost 1500 tanks in the battle of Kursk in WW2. Looks like they are trying to break records.
@@mr_benn_escapes_lockdown1780 Possible only if the Ghost of Kiev decides to switch from his plane to ground armor.
@Kermit your arguments are just sinking like the Moskva
Even after it got hit it managed to get 2 trees and a squirrel, great demonstration of the Russian fighting prowess.
That squirrel is an Ukrainian squirrel. I'd also deploy maximum firepower of there is a remote chance it's gonna come for me.
Are the Russians torturing the captured Racoon for information?
The tank rolled backwards onto a mine. Then the main cannon fired into the trees, probably because the crew was shocked and accidentally bumped a control. Firing the main cannon caused the breached cabin to ignite
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Ruzzia reveiled it had during all those years a mockery of an army. Pitty...
Suicide mission from people who were just fed up with being in the war?
Who knows!
Needed a washing machine as Ivan and his pal's pants need washing
Orcs obviously don't care about losing their own lives and neither do the rest of us. 😁
Looks more like it hit a mine as it lifts up, the gun probably had a round in the chamber which fired due to the explosion.
"Ivan did you turn the heating up?"
"Boris what heating? This is the warmest I've been since October".
Ivan Time for a brew up.
I have seen several videos of this location and it is clear that tanks and bmp’s are being set out without any regard for the situation, so we see a group of four or five destroyed tanks and bmp’s being approached by another three vehicles. The first is hit and crashes into an already destroyed vehicle. The second one is arriving at full speed than sees the first one destroyed and does a swift 180, but gets hit anyway. A third vehicle passed the now smoking second one and ….. need I say more?
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Honestly, think it got lost. Its not unheard of
Especially when drunk on cheap vodka.
@@Im-just-Stardust Or just plain illiterate.....because bad, mean uncle Vlad stole the education budget for a palace.
Thanks for another video clip.
Given where the shots that missed landed, I'd say the rounds hitting the ground came from another tank, to the bottom left corner of the video, and the third shot hit. Probably a kinetic penetrator round given the lack of explosion when it hits the ground. If artillery were hitting the ground it'd look like more than a puff of dirt.
Very kind of the Ukrainian army to warm those Russians up on a cold day
There is a longer version of this video that shows the crew crawling back thru the mud of their own tracks. That probably worked up a sweat.
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0:33 Could be the gunner, "falling asleep" and pushing the button? 🤔
After the war, they should melt down all the russian junk and make it into “The Monument of Failure”. Have it face directly towards Moscow.
An upraised finger.
thanks
The tank wasn't asking for trouble. It was asking for a "mercy killing".
As Artur Rehi noted: Russia fights wars like toddlers play chess: pieces fly everywhere.
Artillery delivered mines were used on the first strike in the area, with possible refreshing as needed to keep the road blocked.
"More monuments to failure"... luv it!
Slava Ukraini.
Thank you good Sir
Another EPIC shot!
0:21 bottom left corner, is that an RPG or a Stugna firing towards the tank, but misses?
Mentioned tank crew reminded me your average random Post Scriptum tankist.
They all think a tank is "the tank" and infantry is just dirt on a shoe. All this lasts about 30 seconds on initiating first fire.
thx for your work
Lacking discipline, focus, good judgement... Classic Russian maneuver.
Another case of Mobik drunk driving, maybe.
#UkraineAidOps is worth a bit of support
When that shortcut for a 'vodka run' goes tits up...
The word TACTICS clearly hasn't translated well into Russian. 😂
great to have humor back
I'm an armchair officer, but wouldn't all the scorch marks and burned out vehicle be a pretty good sign that there is trouble ahead, like mines and dialed in artillery?
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Is anyone actually in charge of this SShow? who sends out a lone tank without support? What are they hoping to achieve?
Draw fire away from the other orcs.
Grinding down Ukrainian artillery, one tank at a time?
This is how they won WWII in their minds. They've conveniently forgotten that they would have lost without American and allied support, fuel, equipment and ammo. They've become victims of their own propaganda.
They keep doing these idiotic attempts to appease the higher ups. On paper they can claim attempted assault even if it's sending 1 tank on a suicide mission.
Another Great video.
I honestly think they get these tank crews jacked up on vodka and just send them off, hoping ONE of them will finally punch through.
Looks like it hit a mine
That was my first impression too. Under its left track (to our right).
I'm wondering with all the Russian losses who is left to drive the tanks? I would think it would take a lot of training. Russia hasn't shown itself to be big on combined arms strategy.
Russia is not into too much training, LOL.
The T-38 was famously built to drive like a tractor, while the British tanks of the same war drove like a Bentley.
A split second before the hit, there is a small flash on the right side of the screen in the field. Then the tank aims at that point.
'A tank loss for literally nothing' Could put it on T Shirts for Z supporters back home.
I used to be an infantryman,and just had some training in planning ambushes against columns.Can anybody explain to me what the hell is a single tank doing going on it’s own,on an open field and down a suspected heavily mined track.I just can’t figure it out by myself.Did I fall asleep at infantry school and missed the better part?Best wishes to all Ukranians,specially those in uniform!Khuilo Putin!
That tank crew pissed off their CO and he expended them.
Some say russia has called in more strikes to take down tall buildings in vulydar so they can do the usual roll in over a flat city. The rains are slowing them down now
At 0:27 there is a flash/puff of smoke out in the open snow covered area on the right, mid way between the tree line and the side of the image. It coincides almost perfectly with the initial detonation of the tank, so I suspect it was a infantry launched anti-tank weapon or RPG
Good spot. I think the spot is the incoming missile fired from off screen to the right caught in that single frame. The tank had already had a near miss from the bottom left that caused the explosion behind it.
“It’s just a flesh wound.”
There is no artillery bracketing the tank, those other explosions look like mortar rounds, the tank seems like it hit a mine with the way the dirt shoots out from under the tank. The round going off is not a deliberate shot, more like the round cooking off in the chamber or the explosion from the mine forcing a firing of the chambered round. It fires low.
Another tank in the garbage
It is sometimes possible for the round in the main gun to kick off from fire after a tank or artillery piece is hit. Or it can be a dead mans trigger.
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The second shot may have been a cook off
It must be rather depressing to be a Russian tanker driving forward and passing the hulks that the Ukrainians had no difficulty destroying. How does one listen to the orders to join the death parade without shooting the S.O.B. who issued them?
Radio?
As you can see, the hit tank "spit out" its loaded projectile, but uncontrolled ;-))
Looked like a mine to me.
Another bites the dust...keep it coming Ukraine. Thank you Lord for the successful disabling of the enemy.
Phantom Ninjar spotted it..about 22 seconds into video, Rpg or something fired from the tree line (bottom left) ahead of the Tank, missed and detonated some way behind Ivan before he was marmarlised by something else.😄
Other analysis says its a mine and its consistent with an AT mine going off under the right hand track and setting the fuel tank off.
"what were they trying to achieved?"
Col. Dumbfuckski: "Ivan, take your tank over there and see if there are still mines."
Ivan: "..."
As usual, the biggest incompetence here is that the tank is completely unsupported. Most videos shows that a bit later a couple of BMPs try the same path and meet a similar fate.
No artillery at work in this video.
First the tank neutralized a mine, then while the tank was burning it fired once without aiming.
I wouldn't be surprised if the crew were drunk.
Sending singular tanks out like that is a doctrine they use. Instead of sending a foot patrol out they send single tanks around. They did that all the time in Syria too. Or they'd send an entire platoon of tanks around to patrol city streets - one tank at a time down roads. Ate a lot of RPG's from buildings that's for sure. They have so many tanks they don't care if they lose them.
They did the same things in Syria I'm seeing here -- you'd see a whole column of armor pull into a town, stop by the side of the road for whatever reason and start taking fire. Instead of having dismounted infantry patrolling around the area first. It wasn't until they put that Russian General in charge where you'd see videos of dismounted infantry clearing out the area of ambushes - half of which were in tennis shoes and no helmets.
it may just be the quality of the video, but in the field right of the tank just before the hit, theres some sort of movement/spark looking thing pass across the snow. like i said, might just be the quality of the video
*"That's A Tank!"*
“Vuhledar region, if you need a reminder.” No, I’m good, thanks.😉
The worms are simple creatures
Man didnt know Vuhledar was so small... crazy
another tank as the iron coffin.
here in Poland we have a saying "it's so f*cked up like in Russian tank". I think you know where it comes from
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One would almost think they don't have many more tanks in the area..... Obviously Russia Stronk so that couldn't possibly be the case. Could it?
Even though the Russians are taking loses they are still gaining ground.
Single tank without support..perhaps it wanted to change sides or the equip wanted it to be donated.