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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by smcl on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:27AM (#35421710)
I mean yeah they tend to actually have reactive armor and don't tend to be quite as vulnerable to the "turret tossing" as those operated by the Russians. But this isn't about western vs soviet tanks. The point was the "many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks" appear to be quite vulnerable to very inexpensive and widely available equipment that Ukraine have become adept at using.
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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by m2fkxy on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:38AM (#35421800)
It also doesn't help that those tanks are employed in a completely inane way by the Russian side.
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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by codedokode on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:20AM (#35422286)
> they tend to actually have reactive armor

Soviet tanks also have reactive armour. You can easily see those boxes on a photo of a tank. Or did you mean some other kind of armour?

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Re:Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop ... by smcl on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:24AM (#35422332)
Some soviet tanks are supposed to have reactive armour. The same way the Russian troops were supposed to be issued with body armor and the tank columns invading Kiev from the north were supposed to have fuel.

I don’t think anyone’s particularly hopeful about any breakthrough from either side, and the Russians do not seem to be the comically inept force they’re sometimes portrayed as. But it’s no secret that they’re poorly resourced and were ill-prepared for the conflict Putin started.

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