Ukrainian M1A1 Abrams SA with Kontakt-1 Reactive Armor on the Eastern Frontline. Modern Tank Warfare
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Our team had the opportunity to talk to the Ukrainian crew of an M1A1 Abrams tank in eastern Ukraine to find out how they perform on the battlefield and what challenges they face.
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As an American. Seeing our abrams with Eastern ERA isn't something I thought I wanted to see more of but here we are
Agreed
thumbs up for the subtle eagle screech at the begining
I thought it was outside tbh. Our local hawks have been doing the rounds. They sound exactly like that but without the dumb echo.
thats not an eagle thats a red tailed hawk
@@gefagnis Yup, eagles don't screach except when Hollywood throws in the voice of a hawk.
Thats a hawk, not an Eagle.
Since the Abrams was built in collaboration with the Germans, you could say the sound as made by a "REICH EAGLE" or the hawk o/
Some of these mighty machines will be destroyed and some even captured but in the end, the battlefield is where they belong, saving soldiers lives and sending invaders to the other side.
Idk how had ppl still believe ukrainians even western aid can defeat Russia.Even NATO cant defeat russians in a convetional war in Ukraine.I not mentoined nuclear weapons because if both sides start use it and God cant help us then
@@todorpamukov7435 Ukraine managed to stop ruzzia for more than two years with dripfed, second hand western weaponry and NO airpower AT ALL.
Rest easy that NATO would wipe the "mighty" ruzzian rabble off of Ukraine's borders with its airpower ALONE.
Hard to argue with the US’s reluctance to send the newest model, as it could be bad for everyone if Russia could capture and reverse engineer the classified armor. I guess Russia would have to first value its soldiers enough to add fancy armor though…
@@FloorBed They'd also have to source the materials to construct that high tech armor. good luck under sanction from a majority of the world
on point!
Abrams with ERA looks awesome.
hahah gotta love the eagle screech
Red tailed hawk
Awesome tank crew. Good to see those tanks in action.
Are they on action?
Why don’t you send you son to be apart of the crew since you are so happy about seeing it in “action”
@@GalAxy-u9s you russian troll ?
@@AndrewC137 you russian trolling again ?
Did you miss the part where it is getting a new engine because they sent Abrams that are 40 years old and the slow maintenance times, quote “are killing our people”, they have to wait for parts from the US and the engines’ age is ruining all the engine seals? They even came without ERAs so they attached their own.
Unfortunately, the RuZZians figured out a weakness, which is why the added armor was needed. The blast doors on the ammo storage (top of the turret) helps save the crew in a "normal" combat environment, but in Ukraine, drones are EVERYWHERE. And they figured out if you hit the blast doors with an FPV, you can easily disable the tank by setting off the ammo. The crew lives, but the tank is useless. This is how RuZZia got some "trophies" that they displayed in moscow. The added armor around the turret, and the improvised "cages" help protect it from FPV. Hard lessons learned by Ukraine, grateful to them all.
Funny how at the etart of the war everyone was laughing at "cope cages"
Turns ouf the "Ruzzians" had a good idea
@@PrayedForYou Funny that FPV drones weren't in wide use at the very start and the cages were meant to protect from Javelin and NLAW and were completely useless for that.
“ruZZians”, Ukroid, you provoked this conflict. Also its that they neglect the equipment by using rubber tracks in mud. Their own fault. Plus the Abrams is too heavy and armour can save it from a lancet.
@@mclukas44lol25you’re a terrible human being.
@@mclukas44lol25 Dusk, vata.
She may not have the chobham armor, but abrams is better than no abrams. Kick ass, Slava Ukraini
They have Chobham, on the frontal hull plate both upper and lower, gun breach, turret sides and i would assume turret frontal plates in place of the depleted uranium armor, the U.S replaces the uranium armor with chobham for export sales
@@leandro9311 No depleted Uranium in anything outside the US Army, USMC, or National Guard.
@@HanSolo__ Thats what i said
@@leandro9311 Oh, sorry. I did not get it from your comment.
They have chobham, not the DU grapes
it’s embarrassing to give tanks in this condition, without protection and why just 31,US has thousands of them in storage?
USA don't want to anger Putin even more....
They need air cover to be effective. Of course we have to supply that as well……..
The main reason is to convince Germany to approve providing the more available and plentiful Leopard 2 to Ukraine. It is easier for Ukraine to obtain Leopard 2s from throughout Europe than to have Abrams sent across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States. The Leopard 2s currently make up the bulk of Ukraine's Western model tanks. Nevertheless, both the Abrams and Leopard have and will continue to provide good service for Ukraine's soldiers.
@@korypalmer4079 the main danger to tank is drone , I think NATO should research on electronic warfare to jam those suicide drone
The US hasn't deployed a armour solution to FPV drones for their own forces. There's wisdom in that to an extent, they're not currently fighting in a war and the drone situation is highly amorphic. In this footage you see about the most sophisticated armour addons for the platform in the world today, simply because they are in response to the most contemporary conflict. Australian Abrams, for example, are exactly the same base armour iirc (Thus why the Ukes want them when Australia replaces them). All the same, it's a worry there are outstanding logistical problems when there really shouldn't be. One of the arguments for supplying the tanks was that if Australia was capable of running them without an industrial infrastructure to supply parts, then why couldn't Ukraine? If the 47th are struggling, it's no good. So much admiration for that brigade. Three completely different type of tank in two years.
Toughest men in the world, no competition. Taking non familiar tech, running it and even tweaking it under battlefield conditions is something NATO has no experience with.
They had to add Soviet protection because their masters sent them the tanks after one year of preparation without reactive armour...
@@GalAxy-u9swtf are you talking about? They came with reactive armor, did you not get anything from the video? The us has never fought a war where 500$ drones are being used in mass, no one has. It's not the us's responsibility to fund this war
So that's false. Battlefield modifications were common in Iraq until they accelerated the TUSK programs.
Thank you very much for this interesting report.
they needed 300 abrams not 30. We have plenty in storage. I thought we refurbished these before we sent them. Why are the engines not rebuilt? not thrilled with my gov response.
Ukraine needs more tanks, sure, but it's nowhere close to their primary need. The priorities should be: artillery ammo and spare barrels; air defense munitions and systems (especially long range ones like Patriot); and armored transport, especially IFVs. With the way tanks are being used in this war (largely fire support, very little maneuver) they are not as important as other vehicles like IFVs. I would say if the US could spare more armor, we should send more Bradleys rather than more Abrams. The problem is the Bradley's replacement has not yet been selected yet, and is nowhere near production, so the US needs to keep a sizeable reserve to be upgraded for the future.
Don’t wanna burst your bubble but there’s no way we would give them 300 mbts lmao, maybe 300 Bradley’s and ifvs. Plus they need artillery and AA way more than they need tanks. There will always be oversight in preparation for war no one is immune to it.
Let's just send everything to Ukraine and then pray that China doesn't do something stupid. The truth is we can only send so much without compromising our own safety.
dude,in this ukrainian battlefield tanks are siting ducks,drones just melt them....btw ukrainians do not air forces like atack hilos and theyr tanks are useless. Russians advatages with aviations,arty and drones make ukrainians tanks and BTR-s useless. And idk why continue this war....maybe western countrys wanna wipe out ukrainian state?
@@cloudstrife5209 That's really not the case here. These tanks were not in active service. They were sitting in a storage depot waiting for a "just in case" scenario. This is that scenario. The war in Ukraine is fought on the ground. A war with China will have nothing to do with tanks, or artillery. It will be primarily a naval and air engagement, and it will actually be over pretty quick.
Either China will be able to establish a foothold on Taiwan early on and block the US navy and airforce from reinforcing Taiwan, or it's landing forces will be destroyed. If it's the latter China will lose the ability to complete their primary goal of taking Taiwan by force. It won't take long to figure out what the outcome of that conflict will be. A month, maybe two at most.
Two different theaters of war, two very different requirements. Old tech vs cutting edge tech. Helping Ukraine is helping us, because it's destroying Russia's ability to wage war, and assuring that if we do have a conflict with China that Russia won't factor into it.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙💛
Kokaini
Very cool guys. Awesome vid, answered some of the questions I had about the makeshift armor, pretty well executed if you ask me. Seems designed to primarily defend against shaped charge rounds and artillery, of which there is…a lot on the battlefield. Very interesting.
Bradleys are much more useful and easier to maintain. Let’s forget about sending anymore M1s and instead send more of the thousands of M2s sitting in storage and slated to be retired. Any conflict with the PRC will not include the use of IFVs or MBTs .
That's some pretty wishful thinking. And the prc isn't the only possible threat
The Bradley is in demand with the US until replacements are available
this may well be an accurate assessment. just look at what ukraine is doing with FPV drones, marine drones and other high-tech solutions. now imagine what the US could do with it's resources if it really needed to. unless there is an effective counter to drones IFVs and MBTs are going to be useless. Remember - future drones don't even need radio connection. Their onboard AI can guide them to their targets so they can't be jammed. Ukraine is already field-testing this.
@@anssiluomaranta34 oh I'm sure the powers across the world have been working on a solution that isn't just carpet bombing the f out of everything as a means to combat drones. They'll still have weaknesses. I half believe there's a chance the world goes backwards in battles due to the effectiveness of drones, and by that I mean usingemp's.knocking out all electronics would cause mass chaos in this day and age, not being able to call artillery no drones, ect.. they'll figure something out to get them out of the sky even if they're AI controlled.(I wonder how many of their own people ai drones will kill lmfao). I thought about it and had the same thought about tanks and being a dying breed but having a tank that's armored and you can roll up to a house and level it is just too important(?), they'll figure out how to take out drones before getting rid of mbt's and ifv's.. in some cases it's too dangerous to move troops without armor, and if you can't insert troops then the battle would never change.
I do give it to Russia for coming up with drone jammers and even "jamming guns" its really something no one expected and was so random but to ukraines credit, most countries have reapr's or other types of drones in the air to watch what's going on. Having a 1000$ drone that's compact and fairly fast is huge for a conventional war, it's natural that someone was sitting there watching the screen and thought "if only I could fly this thing into them". But like I said every country is working on a means to effectively protect against dronesz there will always be a weakness to exploit.
Lol shooting lasers at them... or have a mini gun that's essentially drone air defense
NATO and America need to stop messing around and give Ukraine the equipment needed to gain air superiority
You can't just give the equipment. People need to be trained first and that take a while. Blame the EU for it
@@dalveal01Most if not all the EU is in NATO.
The Czech Republic is a small country, but we gave what we had...
It’s has give over 1 trillion in aid!!! Where did all that go huh?
Why?
Given how well the M2A2/A3 Bradleys are doing, wouldn't it be more combat effective to trade the M1A1 Abrams for M2A2/A3 Bradleys? For the cost, you can get multiple Bradleys.
I thought people had belabored that over last year or so. The Abrams has some steep maintenance needs with the turbine engine and unique transmission (among other things), and the Bradley uses a turbo-Diesel engine like most other AFVs in the world.
Massive respect for these guys not only keeping these things running but also upgrading them with region specific mods!
That tank is going to be a trophy oneday
Thats going against decommunization
Symbolic aid at best. they need like 500 tanks and air support for them to make difference.
They are too heavy for that theater, anyway.
They got 500+ tanks from all over the europe and ruskies reckt them all
Damn and the wars pushing 3 years with russian oil refineries and airfields bruning on russian soil 500+ all dead your numbers are funny@@stolek6908
Yet 3 years of war from a 3day operation 😂@stolek6908
They received only 16% of what they requested…. Which is less than 100 tanks total . There’s only that much you can do
@@tinymoegaming russia never said it would be 3 days, the US said it would be 3 days.
3:56 that technician know about tanks and know about cars love to see wearing a t shirt Toyota 💪🏼.
Slava Ukraine!
Heroes to Slava
this sound like hail hitler
30 old tanks without proper defence after 2 and a half year of war, what a great gift from our American friends.
At the same time Poland gave to Ukraine about 400 tanks!
I’ve heard from first hand accounts, that only 5 Abrams are operational at most because of the losses in combat and the scavenging of parts off of some to make the others operational. How things have changed where a $500 drone can easily take out a multi million dollar machine in the blink of an eye.
Re assembling a tank to suit it to best for your fightinf style plus terrain is just common sense
There were so few M1A1 Abrams tanks there were sent to Ukraine. Only 31.. The US should send more rather than having these tanks in storage..
Nope
Wow they did more improvements in Abrams then we do getting new tanks this improsive
Are there any still left working? I know they were not the best package from the US but you would think their MBT would last a wee bit longer.
I saw this in Moscow!! It was in much worse shape than it is here lol
And yet, the turret was still attached, and there were no skeletons inside.
@@danielcamacho1913”b-b-but the turret is still attached even though the tank is scorched to a crisp!”
@@Anonymous-is6xu no skeletons inside was probably the more important point in his statement
Some errors made in this video to point out:
- Kontakt 1 ERA was developed, and mass produced by the Soviet Union not Ukraine
- Kontakt 1 isn't immune from AGMs, UVs, and Lancets and it can't withstand/block anything, all it takes is for the munition used to have/use a Tandem Shaped Warhead and Kontakt 1 would provide next to no protection against it.
Ukraine was in the Soviet Union dum dum
@@vfgfdfdf NII Stali (Russian: НИИ стали), is a Russian research institute (NII) located in the capital city of Moscow dum dum.
@@usuariopimba707 Be that as it may, the previous commenter mentioned the Soviet Union as though it did not include Ukraine. Which is false.
@@vfgfdfdf It doesn't matter, the factory is Russian not Ukrainian as it says in the video
@@usuariopimba707 For Christ sake, by saying "Ukrainian Kontakt ERA" he only meant that is was some that they possessed. I don't think he meant any copy-write infringement.......for crying out loud.
I want to call this tank - Slavrams
May you all come home safe
the quote brad pitt said having the best job in the world isn't just about tankers, it's veterans themselves having the best job in the world.
It's a older abumas like the man said it's about 40 years old that's what I figured the is would do they gave them the older tanks so It makes sense that they had to put on the relative armor and having engine problems
They be putting that shit on everything 💀💀💀
USA has 6000 Abrams in service and nearly 10.000 Tanks stored in desert. And they deliver 31.
That is false.
I know they should have sent 0 Abrams
If anything they should send more old M1A1s that we dont use, gets them into battle and gets the burden off our hands
@@duoblade332 Leo 2s are still a better choice for the Ukrainians.
@@obsidianjane4413 Germany already unloaded a heap of Leopard 1's and early Leopard 2's to Ukraine.
They are irresistible! We even saw some in Moscow...
Slava ukraini 🫡🇺🇦🏴
Something got lost in the translation
" This side toward vehicle "
Had that side away from the vehicle wtf?
I've said from the beginning that it will not matter what tanks are sent to Ukraine if they do not have aviation to support them.
Maybe they should have invested in their airforce in the 30 years they've been a sovereign country... instead they "elect" corrupt politicians that funnel money out of the country into their own pockets. I don't see why it's the US's responsibility to fund this war and hold their hands.
nice job from us to translate it to ukrainian.
Thank you for posting a much higher quality video than the usual stock footage Crap.
Note that the abrams is from decades ago against the new russian tank it still slaps
a dated 120mm gun is still a 120mm gun
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abrams been taking a beating in ukraine
Finally some food for thought, all those positive light videos of UKR but in reality many poor souls are getting smashed with aircraft and attack choppers. They are still missing many tools to fight this war properly I think.
They lie. These modifications have not been made in an improvised workshop at the front. The reactive armor units, the steel supports and the density of units... that has been done by a professional in a workshop
And the units were removed from the front... they disappeared from the front for weeks and months... and now they have returned reinforced and modified
What happened to the start streak mobile anti air defence? I thought they were also deployed
Lets hope they go longer than last time when they were pulled back for mods
The American main battle tanks seem to be quite useless on the battle field - better than nothing but just too maintenance heavy. But sending these tanks gave Germany and other countries more cover to send actually useful tanks.
Use the range advantage of the tank. Do not stay in one place for too long. These are assault weapons. Use them like Patton would use them. Never hold ground, Take it.
This tank is a 90’s era tank the M1A1. So you have to fight with it differently. I noticed some Ukrainian’s use it wrong. It’s an older tank with older technology. They should’ve sent the M1A2 tank. It has all the updated variants. But of course they won’t
Looks like war thunder would add that new Variant of m1 Abrams in their game 💀
Waiting abhrams vs T90m legendery battle
Horrific....but still, from an engineering point of view it would be a magnificent Battle Royale.
One of the M1A1s was destroyed by a T-72B3.
@@MarekKrassus53 How many T-72s were destroyed by the Abrams first? Don't bother.
@@rael5469 0???? They've never fought
@kabochakabocha3561 No they have in the Iraq war.
Ingratitude.
Look at those dents on the cheeks. They saw some heavy shit.
The Ukrainians could use a couple hundred more of them (currently rusting in storage..) preferably equipped with the latest gen. of active defensive protection.
Yes because we want US tech falling into Russian hands because they flew a 500$ drone into it. They're getting our old garbage for a reason. Lol us wouldn't even sale tiawan f35's for fear that the gen 5 tech would be leaked to China. The stuff is top secret and will be for another 20-30 years... giving our best equipment to a 3rd world country is asinine.
No. As a US citizen these are my tanks and they’re staying in storage
@@xxdmoneyxx4968 Yes, As a US citizen these old war chariots should be given to Ukraine, we are literally never going to fucking use them, they're going to rust in storage and just be scrapped, these tanks are older Abrams and are outdated, and we should let them do what they were built for or go out with a bang, you do not seem to understand that these things are going to be scrapped no matter what so that they can be replaced with newer M1A2 variants, nor are they your tanks either, the government will never sell an Abrams to a civilian
@@Klimotineya no, not only did the citizens pay for the cost of the vehicle, but now we gotta pay for logistics in crossing the Atlantic! And then you wonder why everything is so much more expensive here, it’s because of unnecessary spending for things that don’t benefit our people.
@@Klimotine " we are literally never going to fucking use them" I can't tell if you really have no idea what you're saying or if you think you're actually right. Ah yes, with that logic we should give them ALL of our entire military equipment. Cause were NEVER gonna use it! Who would attack America!?
The Abrams will always be the Best Tank in my Eyes 🇺🇸🇺🇦
If you say so...
@@GalAxy-u9s I Do 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Why has Ukraine lost almost 35 % of Abrams in Ukraine ? These losses are much higher than expected
It’s an old tank in a new battlefield
They better add Leo’s with ERA in war thunder
Gajin when
There's a click bait Abrams already.
02:45 Literaly says "this side toward vehicle"
You guys sure thats right?
🤣
He pulled it off the tank to show the inside
Another game changer????
Only the media claims that who of which know little to nothing about tanks, these tanks are just as vulnorable as any other tank so calling them a "game changer" is taking it a bit far.
How long before war thunder makes this a premium
I'm not ripping on US tanks, but there is something oddly ironic about the fact that the Abrams is covered in the 'Cope Cage' armour package of chicken wire.
Amazing soldiers making due with what's given to them. They have none of the support layers both on and off the field of battle for such a complicated tank. You have to love these guys.
US has a completely different way of using the tanks and the Bradleys together, and with air power to protect them. The same will be true with the F16s, which is part of why they won't have the safety that US forces have.
Well,if western countrys send F16 in Ukraine they will be destroed imediatly so they will take off from Romania or Poland and you think russians will not hit these airfields? I dont think so!
Hmmm how often are they cleaning the VPacks ?
why kontakt-1? this not even kontakt-5 or relikt? we heard a lot of how good Ukrainian Nizh , but never heard nizh reviewed in the battle
Definitely some mixed feelings watching this, its great that were helping them become a strong, free country and you can see the effort that is put in to send the vehicles and establish maintenance infrastructure etc. but its sad and embarrassing to see that we sent lower quality models that have age based issues. The comments about the aircraft is also very telling and makes sense, the reason western tanks have been so successful is because they have always had complete air supremacy and combined arms attacks. The tanks by themselves only have limited use on a modern battlefield
Why tf would the us send them top of the line latest generation tanks? I'm so glad people like younare not running the military. "Yeah I think we should send the best of western tech to a 3rd world country that has massive issues with corruption and the equipment will fall into the enemy's hands so they can replicated it and figure out how to defeat it" there's a reason the west is sending them old junk, because why tf would you risk top secret stuff falling into enemy hands? Lmfao there's agreements that if ukrsine captures specific systems they have to automatically hand it over to the US.
Battles aren't won by handing over your best equipment for the enemy to study and learn to defeat.
Too little too late, 31 tanks and that's it!?!? America has a ton of tanks in storage. Now they're just a high logistic waste, deployed sparingly.
so what if 300 Abrams are sent? you need crews for them and repairmen to fix them. Getting ether of those will take another half a year and even then it'll only be a fraction of what's needed to field 300 Abrams
And refurbishing them or upgrading them for Ukraine takes time. Ukraine also has dozens of types of tanks in service at this point, they may not want a bunch of Abrams. The only reason they were even sent in the first place was to force Germany to stop denying Ukraine's request for Leopards. Not that Abrams aren't useful, but they don't make the most sense for Ukraine, it seems to me.
you can send all weapons in the world there but they do not man power so what is next.....direct conflict between nato and russia? Everyone know what will be the result.....bye bye humanity
This is exactly why the US was hesitant to deliver Abrams to Ukraine - the Leopard is much more suited to the situation.
AFU always wanted Leopards more. For a lot good reasons. People forget that these M-1s were given to get the ball rolling on tanks for Ukraine. No one wanted to go first, so the US did.
@mcblaze1968 no they didn't the uk was the first to send mbts typical yanks no idea
@@mcblaze1968 Think you'll find the UK commited its challenger 2 MBTs first.
Germany refused to send leapards until USA sent Abrams though@@davidhopkins9021
No it isn't why. USA refused M1s because they're scared of "escalation" i.e. scared of Putin.
Those are older varients probably 20 years or more years not the ones our country would go to battle with
The US military sure got taken to the cleaners with the Abrams. A gas turbine ? Give me an air cooled diesel any day.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian forces were to be more patterned after Western armies... with a shift to high standards and a lean updated force, rather than the low standard 'large numbers' plan as in the Cold War (overrun the West with vast numbers). Large sums were spent on this' new model defense arrangement' with the 'draft' dropped in favor of attracting a higher caliber individual willing to serve for a life time in the Russian armed forces. What happened simply appears to be individuals lining their pockets for streamlining programs never undertaken... with few improvements in much of anything...plastic helmets, poorly maintained MBT's and out of date 'meals ready to eat'.
Why dont we talk about the dozen which were destroyed?
what? did you think your tanks were invincible? they lost, i think, 6 M1's. They added reactive armour, they've not lost anymore. Pretty much all the types of tank that have been sent out there have suffered losses. The German L2A4 took a battering, but the L2A6 has done better. The challnger 2 has lost 1 but no one knows for sure how. Lots of conflicting stories and massed artillery fire twisted it up so much we dont know if it hit a mine, a drone, lost a track to arty etc etc. Its war, losses with happen.
I just heard they're getting a bunch in f16 fighter jets
Abrams 🔥🔥🔥🔥
i hope their armor is better than in war thunder 💀💀
the reason why american-commanded american tanks are effective is because they have air superiority first in the battlefield...
Never would have I imagined that an Abrams will be equipped by Kontakt ERA.
Performances have been subpar and even bad at times because they're not being used how they're supposed to be. They're built for US doctrine.. and when Ukraine uses them in a complete different way, without any air support and the minimal ground support they send them into the thick of the frontlines you're going to get the results that they have had with some of them. Also aren't built to be a full offensive moving mbt in Eastern Europe..being too heavy for most bridges over there and all the mud the ground turns into half the year.
When you fight relatively modern army and not bearded dudes in sandals your stuff is going to get destroyed , Russia has already lost more than 30 T90Ms , its most modern and powerful tank. Drones+guided artillery combo are the biggest game changer today no modern tank is immune from them
That’s what happens when you fight relatively modern army and not bearded dudes in bath towels and sandals …. No modern tank is immune to Drones and guided arty missiles. Russia has already lost more than 30 T90Ms its most modern and powerful mbt and over 1000 T72s . It’s just the way things are today
@@Nikowalker007 Want to know a big difference?
Russia has designed the T-90M to be way cheaper, quicker and easier to produce (like anything soviet/russian) which results in 30 losses of T-90Ms not being as big of a deal as 30 losses of the M1A1, especially when it's from a foreign country.
Russia can afford T-90M losses, Ukraine CANNOT afford M1A1 losses, and they've already lost a big portion of what they received. Not to mention Russian tanks are now equipped to be somewhat less of a target for small FPV drones while the M1A1, the gigantic tank that it is, is a big target with a big weakspot on the back of the turret.
@@JustaGuy1250 True, M1A1's are definitely much harder to replace than T-90Ms, but the USA have quite a bunch in storage. More could be sent if politics allow it.
I'd say you're overestimating the size difference. T-90M is pretty much equally big as an Abrams is, except for being around 50 cm lower, which doesn't seem like such a gamechanger.
@@Nikowalker007 Mines. Don't forget the mines, bud.
Ukraine has become the most mined country in the solar system!
💛🔱💙 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! ❤️☠️🖤
Slava sharovaram!!! Slava Usranii!!
GOD bless Ukraine
For all the folks whining about how the US only sent 31 tanks, that served one purpose: to get Germany to act. Everyone agrees that Leo 2 is a better fit for Ukraine.
So what was the Abrams built for?
@@GalAxy-u9s quit making more out of this than what it was always about. The whole point, and why we opted to send A1s vs making new A2s is we were trying to get Scholz to come off the Leo 2s. A1s got that job done more quickly all around. What the Ukrainians don't need is a ton of two or three different tank models, particularly given the limitations with drones everywhere. A battalion of Abrams' is a minor nuisance acceptable given the tradeoff of getting the Leo 2s they really need. US money ISO UA is best spent on artillery ammo, GMLRS and ATACMS, and BFVs
@@GalAxy-u9s You are exactly correct. Abrams was specifically built for EXACTLY this battle. To go up against Russian tanks in a "European" environment.
Furthermore, I am less interested in how many Abrams have been lost than in......did they earn their keep while they were fighting. That's all you can ask of any soldier. To make the enemy lose by costing them more than they cost us.
Gaijin when
The Ukrainians received old Abrams tanks, several years behind the current updates. Notice the Bradley which Ukraine has gotten a updated version and in return performance is better.
To be fair the Bradleys performance in Desert Storm was also much better than the Abrams.
The Bradley's are ODS brads, the M1's are actually newer
Warthunder when? im thinking 12.0 br
I mean, we got already be fixing these problems right? I kind of think that maybe this whole sending them stuff yeah it was a lot of money but in the end it’s gonna do more good than harmed us because we can fix our equipment.
How many have been destroyed in Ukraine already?
US needs to supply newer M1's its embarrassing
M1-KVT IRL
M1 KVT was real
Unpopular information: It would cost the US more to keep these tanks on their books and maintain them. Donating them is even cheaper than scrapping them.
It is far better to donate them and build brand new top modern ones for their own forces, then everyone wins! (not the russians though! not the russians..)
considering we have about 8,000 of these things on hand we could easily offload around 500+ without it being a strategic threat to US capabilities.
Lmao the funny thing is the Ukrainians are abandoning these things on the battlefield, faster then they receive them.
Sometimes I wonder if it would've been better to have Russian type armored vehicles upgraded in Western Europe, rather than sending these older US and German MBTs that the Ukrainians weren't as familiar with. There's a learning curve to operating a NATO tank, different doctrines in design vs Warsaw Pact vehicles. The days of big, heavy MBTs on the modern battlefield may be numbered now that drones and MANPADs have become so effective.......unless protective armor has a massive leap forward to what it is now.
the main advantage of the US armor is the crew is much more likely to survive, in in US cases a soldier can survive inside trapped inside the tank if the ammunition cooks off. experienced crews are worth more than a fresh crew, russia has lost a lot of men and amor to pure incompetence from hastily trained crews.
7:45 - the gap Max overcame in 2022 was 46 points buddy, not 69 or more.
Still loving your videos, but still going to continue to point out your errors, it’s nothing personal, it’s just important to get the facts and figures correct; it adds to your credibility. 👍
more aircrafts you need more Mpads
Guided bombs are dropped from outside of the range of MANPADS. Ukraine needs mid SAMs, something USA doesn’t really have. Patriots are long range and too expensive, Stingers are too short range. Only Europeans have mid range SAMs such as NASAMS and Iris-T.
Ukraine should just be happy that they got some modern tanks and IFVs than the cold war relics they were using!
As good as the M1 ABRAMS & LEOPARD 1..
People tend to forget..
They are still man made..
Not God made immortal tank..
Russians still manage to disable and destroyed many off them left and right on the battlefield..
The only different was..
the high rate of crew safety and survivability..these tanks proves harder to destroyed and performs much better than Russian made tanks..
The Abrams and leopard famous wet ammo storage and blow out panels saves lot off them crews..😊
FORTA UCRAINA
Paiaso