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The Russian military has destroyed an American-made M1A1 SA Abrams main battle tank of Kiev forces in the Donetsk direction using a Lancet loitering munition.
The tank was targeted close to the Novoselovka Pervaya, which is located to the northwest of the city of Avdeevka. Video footage of the Lancet strike surfaced online on July 26. The footage shows the loitering munition impacting the tank from the top. After the hit, thick white smoke erupts which indicates that the ammunition stored in the rear of the tank’s turret caught fire.
This was the second Abrams to be hit by a Lancet. The loitering munition was developed by the ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s defense giant Kalashnikov Concern.
The company produces two versions of the Lancet, the Izdeliye-52 with an endurance of 30 minutes and a one-kilogram warhead and the larger Izdeliye-51 that has an endurance of 40 minutes and is armed with a warhead weighing three kilograms.
The loitering munition flies towards the designated area with a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. After arriving in the area, the operator utilizes an onboard electro-optical system via a two-way data-link to detect, track and lock on the target. A laser-ranging system then controls the detonation of the warhead.
Ukraine received 31 Abrams from the United States over the past year. Russian media sources claim that more than a third of the tanks have already been destroyed or damaged. All the losses were near Avdeevka.
The total cost of the Abrams can be over $10 million per a single tank when including training and sustainment. Meanwhile, a single Lancet loitering munition costs just around $20,000.
Ukraine withdrew all Abrams tanks from the front earlier this year as the result of the excessive use of drones by the Russian military, which made it too difficult for the tanks to operate without detection or coming under attack, according to The Associated Press. However, the rapid advance of the Russian military near Avdeevka forced Kiev forces to redeploy the tanks.
A recent report by CNN acknowledged that the tank performed poorly in Ukraine and revealed that Kiev forces have been struggling just to keep their remaining Abrams operational.
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“-i think we should stop this war… russia is an invincible military machine. napoleon, hitler all defeated. zelenski has no chance. we will stop this war… i told him..” d. trump on fox 25.07.24 watch on yt, share
lol 😂 then why couldn’t they take kyiv at the beginning of the war? 🔥🤣🤦
because they did not really want
in war, you only lie. why should the russians tell you or us the truth on the internet? all governments use propaganda. the russians do it too. the fact that the russian army has not yet overrun the whole country shows that they are not capable of doing so. if they were capable of doing so, they would have done it.
sorry, you aren’t focused on the big picture.
russian doesn’t like to abuse monkey’s and homosexual
united paedophiles of joe biden raping children couldn’t overrun taliban in 20 years!!!
they’re waiting until there are only 5 ukrainians left alive. it’s the same plan that america has. it’s one of those unique moments in history where two adversaries have the same exact plan: ‘to the last ukrainian.’
the usa also thought carefully about attacking ukraine. they have staggered air defenses and lots of tanks and armored vehicles. add to that the geography and other factors. the us lured the russians into a kind of trap and the russians walked into it knowingly. either the russians would have allowed ukraine to become stronger or they would attack. they decided to attack.
sorry, you are upside down about real traps on this world.
i see you really believe that western msms spoon fed nonsense.
rather to overrun the whole country and then to bleed out by insurgency and hundred thousands of casualties would have been a trap (also the huge costs of such occupation and the international protests). that’s not a goal, i think russia wants nato out of the country and security guaranties for the future. it looks good at the moment.
they attacked on the eve of ukraine’s launch of operation storm 2.0, its shelling preparations and troop concentrations being amply documented by the osce.
speaking of traps, try to learn a little before opening yours.
old saying dat americans go to war to learn geography. but they still screw up. why we let dem run europe i not sure. maybe so dey learn europe geography?
moron amerikunt stupid
wake up: for the same reason that one does not spend a euro to make a pfennig…b
they didnt want too. there was never a big enough force to take it. but they lost 4 oblasts, lol sucked in
the golden weapon of western propaganda again. it’s sad how people are not awakened.. kiev was never a real military target. kiev was a diversion during which russia protected the territories of the donetsk and luhansk people’s republics. this can be read from the papers recorded before the operation.
because they didn’t want to, moron. try engaging in serious analysis and not ukrop folklore.
wake up yourself, doodlejack.
it was a pinning operation, while they created a north south corridor that fell like dominoes.
you’re not too smart, chumbumble.
it is absolutely unrealistic to believe that the ukrainians can win. the usa only wants to involve the russian army in a long war of attrition. they have achieved their goal. no country has ever profited from a long war. that has not changed in all this time. only short and decisive wars bring profit.
sorry, attrition costs are almost all of the usa since 2022.
the eu, to be more exact.
if you change your narrative a little bit and begin with the conflict in 2008 on the nato summit in bucharest or 2014 maidan in kiev , then you are right : it is just another failed us-war , where they lose more and more , the longer they fight.
look at it this way. nato’s goal, which the russians fully understood, was to control not just half but the entire black sea. they started piecemeal, in 2008, talking puppet saakashvili into attacking s. ossetia but nato really wanted abkhazia along with all the georgian coastline. that failed. then they moved on to crimea and that failed too. the rules of karma say nato should after so many failures now commit hari kiri. we’re waiting.
you very smart man, not like dumbass jackoff bojo.
trump, the white obama, occupied syrian oil fields and gave tax cuts to his rich friends. trump, the billionaire with contacts to the rothschilds, will not help you. he will only lie to you.
go work to one of the brics nations, they are more and more each year, you can choose as you like.
wait…. wait up already…the real war is against natostan and the anglozionazi empire of filth and those goblins are still under the delusion that they are winning…so no onward with z and then more z until the evil that is the eussr is crispy
not much use the abrams, sitting ducks. drones changed the manner of war!
yup, sure did
in my amerikunt cesspool we humiliated by taliban
another new york gay tank named after a monkey destroyed
russia is on point with all the outstanding military and other tech they developed over the years and is still developing knowing this time was coming and to be prepared , go z!
my lgbt army only successful in lgbt brothel
couldn’t we watch it burn for awhile. i love watching them burn
crazy i remember thr abrams tanks were seen as like invincible growing up, now all you need is a lancet to kill one lol
i grew up reading superman comics and truth, justice and the american way.
now i laugh myself silly over falling for all that crap.
now i read mike pompeo comic books and we lie, we cheat, we steal. the american way.
then i watch on tv how he and niki hackysack try to crawl up trump’s arse and tickle his balls together, seeing which one gets there first.
american is a nutsy cuckoo place, along with that island of union jackoffs.
the russians always play dirty, waiting a few minutes after spotting an abrams for it to to get stuck in the mud and become a sitting duck before finishing it off.