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Board Politics & Society
Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
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be.open
on 18/05/2022, 13:52:42 UTC
Javelin is heavy, expensive and not very effective, there are problems with target acquisition. NLAW is very unreliable and frankly weak against a tank with modern dynamic armor. In general, the initial bet on hand-held anti-tank systems did not work, the main tank losses were from artillery.

LOL sure, nothing to worry about, and surely Russians didn't try to put makeshift "anti-Javelin" contraptions on their tanks, and the turrets just randomly fly off for no reason at all, because Javelins, NLAWs, and other anti-tank weapons didn't work:
I'm not saying that there are no losses at all, I'm saying that if they immediately relied not on hand-held anti-tank weapons, but on self-propelled artillery, Russia would have more problems. The vaunted American M777 howitzers also turned out to be zilch, they were delivered without a digital fire control unit.

The collective-farm welded structure in the first photo is a Ukrainian craft, if you draw the letter V on a wrecked Ukrainian tank, it does not become Russian. Grin