Emma15678:
Thanks for the thread. The one wey dey make laugh worry me na Oklahoma missile strike. So US get pro-russia too.

rottennaija:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmdW9ELbNKY

German Leopard 2 tanks: People are excited about a potential delivery to Ukraine and already announced them as the next invincible game-changer.

So let’s look at the past and project into the future.

Video: ISIS destroyed Leopard 2’s

1/ -> thread with news articles

“ISIS claimed it destroyed 10 of the Leopard 2 tanks, dubbed invincible in some quarters, and while the terror group's estimates are regularly exaggerated, analysis of fighting around al-Bab in Syria puts the figure at 'at least eight'.”

So if ISIS is able to blow them up …

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“Germany’s Leopard 2 main battle tank has a reputation as one of the finest in the world […] However, that reputation for nigh-invincibility has faced setbacks on Syrian battlefields, and placed Berlin in a uniquely awkward national-level dispute with Turkey.”

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Challenger 2:
“The MoD had claimed that an attack last month that breached a tank's armour was the first of its kind in Iraq. But a Challenger 2 was pierced by a powerful rocket-propelled grenade last year during an attack that blew off part of a soldier's foot”

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rottennaija:


Abrams:
“It was believed to be the first M1 Abrams main battle tank destroyed since the end of major combat May 1. During the active combat phase, several of the 68-ton vehicles — the mainstay of the U.S. Army's armored forces — were disabled in combat.”

-> Not invincible

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