By Victor Duda
Members of the M1A1 ABRAMS crew from the 47th separate mechanized brigade told reporters that there is insufficient on the modern battlefield. They called the fighting "the War of the drones. " For additional protection of the machine already receive "visors" and dynamic protection of the type "contact-1", but this is not enough. "What we have is more designed for direct tank battles. Very often we have to work as artillery, because we need to disassemble a landing or building.
We had a case when 17 shots in the house and it stands," Joker said " . In addition, Abrams becomes a priority goal for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but the car is much better than the Soviet tank. However, there are problems with technical malfunctions of American tanks. The one who showed journalists had problems with electronics through condensation from rain or fog. There are also problems with the reliability of a gas turbine engine.
The author of the report Nick Paton Walsh called Abrams a car, which is used in NATO only for preference in the air and artillery. The Alliance does not use Abrams the way it has to do the "Joker". Mark Gertling has denied most of Ukrainian tankers' complaints. He denied the presenter's statement that Abrams were created only to the conditions of the desert. Machines were created for NATO.
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