Russian Army Captured Another Ukrainian Abrams Tank (Video)

Russian Army Captured Another Ukrainian Abrams Tank (Video)

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The Russian military has captured an American-made M1A1 SA Abrams main battle tank of Kiev forces in the Donetsk direction.

The tank was damaged and abandoned near the settlement of Ivanovka, right to the south of the settlement of Pokrovsk, before being captured by Russian troops.

Despite being damaged, the tank, which was upgraded in Ukraine with a cage armor and explosive reactive armor blocks, appeared to be in a salvageable condition.

Ukraine received 31 Abrams from the United States over the past year. The total cost of the Abrams can vary, and can be over $10 million per a single tank when including training and sustainment. Around two thirds of the tanks have reportedly been destroyed, damaged or captured.

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 from Avdeevka towards Pokrovsk forced Kiev forces to redeploy the tanks.

A report released by CNN earlier this year 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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Emanuel Gomes Bueno - Brasil

merda de abrams, não serve para nada. a maior potência do planeta usava tanques lixo para lutar🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Jay

só servem para alvo…😂🤣😅

Spock

useless hunk of junk belongs in a museum.

anon

no, they should just dump it outside the amerikunt embassy.

Ukronazis puppets

good idea will be more humiliating 😂👍

Vanya

why is there an american embassy in russia? what is there to talk about?

aamater

kedy bude ďalšia výstava zbraní, porazených fašistov v moskve? ľudia si zaslúžia vidieť proti čomu stáli a bojovali ich synovia a dcéry.

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Martillo

the $lumville garbage can with the jew name. onward ever faster to the total destruction of the anglozionazi abomi nation in khazar occupied palestine.

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Jay

giant piece of excrement…😅🤣😂

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jens holm

my amerikunt master very generous

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Storn shadow

after f16, now storm shadow loading..zelenski : we want discussions with allies on these sorts of things rather than wanting to push on and do it. zelensky finished the weapons and now wants to use france made storm shadows

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Ukronazis puppets

damn thing looks like a dumpster truck from mad max movie lol 😂

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Anonymous

very expensive to repair not much resale

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Fractured Ukrainian Fairytales

1 hr in the field and 48 hrs maintenance.

schultz

it’s not a ukrainian tank, it is an american tank gifted to ukraine.

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Fractured Ukrainian Fairytales

in other words, just another american money pit.

Kibosh

the russians are mobilizing thousands of rad hardened t64 tanks from the coldwar days, they can take an emp licken and keep on ticken. move 5 brigades to belarus, to charge in and secure a land route to kaliningrad, and 25 brigades to flatten ukraine after multiple emp attacks on nato facilities and airfields. there will be very few working ‘fpv drones’ to worry about after that. russia has the tankers for the gear, nato doesn’t. strategic game changer coming real, soon…

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Vanya

they would need 25-30 brigades before they could even think of going on an offensive like that.

Mcbroke

drones have made tanks so vulnerable

Vanya

everything with the silly people is all about $$$. the (((americans))) don’t care about $$$ they create it out of thin air.

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