On the other hand, it should also be a serious wakeup call for Russian AD forces. If Russia can take out these AD systems with ease, so can the future enemy unless you have multiple Pantsir, Tor and S400/S500 complexes all working together in relatively close proximity. Then you still have to hope the radar can pick up the target.
Russia has been dealing with such drones since fighting in Syria and to date in Ukraine.
Orcs have super sophisticated Switchblade drones and are getting more drones of different types too, but Russian AD is pretty good... not perfect, but certainly better than any western country has.
the next time America attacks/Invades another country with or without the support of NATZO, Russia should arm there opposition with Russian weapons to give America and NATZO countries a taste of there own medicine
The amusing thing is of course that when the terrorists get Russian weapons they will find them rather more useful than the nazis are finding western weapons generally...
The west might have to dial back its invasions strategies....
Imagine the reaction of the west to Russia giving some country 15,000 Iglas, or 15,000 Kornet ATGMs....
I believe thats why the US "powers that be" let Trump beat Clinton.
I don't think they have that much power... they clearly cheated in the second term but they were expecting to beat Trump first time round.
America is a police state with the FBI and NSA and CIA etc etc all their other three letter mafia groups seem to be pro Democrat...
And Biden "beat" Trump to cause mayhem in the Pukraine.
Biden beat Trump because they knew he couldn't win fair and square so this time around they actually cheated... and I suspect the Israelis didn't help them because Trump is Israels best friend so I suspect the Chinese helped to fund Biden as being the least anti Chinese of the options available.
A normal US election... everyone feels betrayed by the guy who gets in...
But anyway, time Russia started closing US bases around the World. THAT would wake the pricks in Washington up.
Criminal gangs in Europe are buying up military surplus from Ukraine... I rather suspect when NLAWS and Javelins and Stingers get used in Europe someone will suddenly wake up to the effects of throwing weapons at criminals...
I wonder if this is referring to the Ukrainian Strela vehicle that went berserk in Kiev in the early days, and that was widely reported by media as some loose Russian ditto in spite of it being a short-range SAM vehicle in central Kiev, many miles from the closest the Russians ever moved, and with Ukrainian camo and markings etc. Totally bizarre.
If this dude went to war due to a media fake, and died for it, that is just...
That article sounds like a recruitment drive... for Germany circa 1945... be a hero...
He even admits that when he said he had no experience they put him on the front line... he was a meat shield...
I guess that means israel is the country with the 2nd most reliable air defenses if that bothers Russia. But again thats the opinion from bloomberg not quoting any Russian officials so it can be BS.
When the US said Russia was getting Iranian drones an Israeli government member said Ukraine should get Israeli weapons if Russia gets Iranian drones, and the Ukrainians started asking for Israeli air defence systems, but the Israeli minister in charge of what goes where said they would not be supplying Kiev with anything other than helmets and flak vests and food and clothing.
I believe Russia had a chat to them about their access to Syrian airspace and they decided they had it good and didn't want to risk that changing.
For reference the Metis missile had a 2.5 kg warhead with a HEAT round with 460mm armor penetration.
Though Metis-M1 has a 6kg warhead with 950mm penetration...
There is no reason other than a lack of training and instructions about doing so. It's not hard to disable a tank when you have access to the ammo or fuel compartment. A long cloth soaked in a little diesel at a minimum together with a lighter. Or even better a small timed explosive charge can be supplied to crews who could plant it next to the propellant on their way out
Blowing up everything everytime it stops or runs out of ammo is going to be a bit expensive in material.
I would suspect a few vehicles wont be destroyed because they might think the rear area guys following them might be able to salvage it back before the orcs get hold of it.
The T-90M is not nearly as capable a tank as the Object 477A so its capture is not that big of a loss.
Even with its secrets exposed it is still a useful and powerful tank.
Just because the enemy get hold of something doesn't make it worthless... HATO countries have S-300 in service... they still fear it.... and rightly so.
Britain got Tunguskas at the end of the Cold War, and the US got parts of an SA-12 (S-300V) system which probably helped them develop the PAC-3... as inferior as that system is...