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The Russian military has destroyed one of the last German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks in service with Kiev forces with FPV suicide drone.
The tank, a Leopard 2A6 equipped with a cage armor, was struck by two FPV suicide drones guided via fiber-optic cables close to the settlement of Yablunivka in the direction of Sumy. Video footage showing the strikes was posted to social networks on June 28.
Over the last two years, Ukraine received some 60 Leopard 2s of A4, A6 and the Swedish Stridsvagn 122 version, which is similar to the A5, from its backers. More than 50 of these tanks have already been destroyed, damaged or captured by the Russian military.
Kiev forces also received more than a 100 Leopard 1A5s. Around a quarter of these older tanks have been lost already, despite not being used much due to their very bad operational condition.
When it was first supplied, the Leopard 2 was taught by the mainstream media in the West as game changers that would allow Kiev forces to dominate the battlefield.
This image was, however, shattered in the very first day of Ukrainian 2023 spring counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhia direction, which saw the destruction of multiple Leopard 2A4 and A6s. A year later, many of the remaining tanks were used in the attack on the Russian region of Kursk, which borders Sumy. Only a few survived.
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good night vienna.
easily replaced by the west who have unlimited finance and equipment to resist russia. eventually russia will runnout of money and weapons just like the world sanctioned and embargoed south africa in the 1980’s. they will eventually cause russia to retreat and come to the table on ukrainian terms and beg for peace.
yawn, this unsubstantiated argument is getting boring after all this time
i mean, the world didn’t sanction and embargo south africa in the 1980’s. the afrikaaners were still thick as thieves with the jewish supremacists in the organized crime enclave in palestine.
the boers tested nuclear bombs for the jooz in the indian ocean.
hehehe russia getting hammered in sumi. lots of russian equipment and drones getting destroyed even s400 getting destroyed with superior nato equipment and optics and targeting. one hit from a nato missile destroys completely russia equipment with a big bang but russian bad optics looks like powder puff bombs even vehicles are not completely destroyed with russian weapons. nato and ukrainian weapons are truly superior.
and that’s why the ukrainians have just about wrapped up the ato and the last of the moskals is headed east from donbas and crimea.
and japan won the war in the pacific after they dropped atom bombs on washington and jew york.
your the israhell ukies # 69 troll
i have the spec. on the leopard2 from a uk nato mbt military advert praising it and ending quote- “the german army plans to keep it in service until 2030 “end quote well this is 2025 and goes up in flames to a cheap russian suicide drone -well not at this rate !!
it looks they keep the remaining 75 leopard 1a5s available for the battle of kiev🤡
the battle of lwow.
nobody cares. ruzzia lost over 22000 armored vehicles, including 6000 tanks 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆
the smileys just point to the seriousness of the claim. the claim is probably from western intelligence services with a false nose.
this piece of garbage should just be dumped outside the german embassy in moscow as a permanent reminder of what the schnitzel eaters can expect from russia from now on.