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Ukraine’s armed forces have suffered significant losses of scarce military equipment in recent days. These losses will be difficult to recover under the conditions of unpreparedness of the Western military-industrial complex for a large-scale war. On November 13, a video of drone operators of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Army defeating a British Challenger 2 tank appeared in a Telegram segment. The drone, filled with explosives, hit the driver’s hatch.
The attack on the tank took place in a wooded area in the Kursk region, where, according to OSINT sources, the AFU command has deployed its main reserves and a large amount of modern Western equipment.
According to the official data of the Russian Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region, 202 tanks, 134 infantry fighting vehicles, 112 armored personnel carriers, 1,146 armored combat vehicles, 907 vehicles, 274 artillery pieces, 40 multiple rocket launchers, including 11 HIMARS and six MLRS of US production, have been destroyed, 12 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, seven transport and loading vehicles, 62 REB stations, 13 anti-battery radars, four air defense radars, 27 pieces of engineering and other equipment, including 13 engineering demolition vehicles, one UR-77 demining unit, as well as six armored recovery vehicles and one command and staff vehicle.
On the same day, November 13, a video of the defeat of two German Leopard 2A4 tanks of the 33rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces between the settlements of Dachnoye and Kurakhovo was published. The Kurakhovo direction is the second most saturated with Western equipment after the Kursk direction. The AFU is trying to slow down the Russian offensive at the expense of committing valuable reserves to the battle. As a result, the losses of scarce military equipment continue to grow. According to the Lostarmour research project, for the calendar month of this year the losses of the Ukrainian army in tanks amounted to 24 pieces. Among them are three Leopard 1A5 tanks. To this should be added the losses recorded recently (Challenger 2 and two Leopard 2A4).
Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Defense Ministry Simtje Möller said earlier that 55 Leopard 1A5 and 18 Leopard 2A6 tanks had been transferred to Kiev. Deliveries of Leopard tanks from other countries were also recorded (in February 2024, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung, the number was 230 Leopard 1 and 2 tanks, of which only 38 were delivered by Germany). In October this year, the total losses of various Leopard tank modifications were estimated by Business Insider at 40 units. The official number of Challenger 2s delivered to Ukraine is 14. So far, three units have been lost, including two in the Kursk region.
The main problem for Kiev is that the West does not have the ability to replace losses the way Russia does. The Russians have had a well-developed tank production and repair capability since Soviet times. Moreover, the Russian Federation has always been one of the main suppliers of tanks to the global arms market. At the same time, the production of the Challenger 2 was stopped by the United Kingdom in 2009, and the production of Leopard tanks cannot even come close to the Russian figures.
In addition, German equipment is characterized by high costs. Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said on October 30, 2024 that Berlin offered to buy Leopard 2 at a discounted price of 25 million euros per unit.
“For a tank to cost 25 million euros, this tank would have to fly, then it would be a real price. But that is unrealistic, and the money is unrealistic. The question is who has it and in what quantity,” the head of state said.
There are also big problems with the loss of the Abrams main battle tank of the United States. In the direction of Pokrovsk, the Russians captured an M1A1 SA Abrams tank of the 47th mechanized brigade of the AFU, equipped with Soviet Kontakt-1 and BRAT dynamic protection, as well as grilles on the turret. “More than 20 of the 31 Abrams tanks delivered to Ukraine have been destroyed, disabled or captured, most of them hit by guided artillery or kamikaze drones. At least one tank was hit by a Russian T-72B3 after an exchange of fire, and several more were abandoned by the crew”, according to Military Watch Magazine.
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and russia was supposedly stealing washers and running out missiles…
ukraine is a military playground. nato tests equipment, honing war strategies, learning russian reactions, in fact, the u.s. mic earns 50 percent of the cost for every tank and every missile. ukrainians are free to use. it was never nato territory, it was pro-russian territory so russians are the losers. eu cherrypicked these ukrainians they wanted, qualified and let them work for the eu without adequate salary. pretty girls are working in brothels. the rest is to be recycled as cannon fodder.
and that’s just why nato is losing badly … because they perfectly understand the new paradigms of war. as usual our resident idiot ‘snowden’ makes a fool of himself.
what a cancer you and what you have said is
dumb feminized amerikunt desperate pathetic—loses again
dobrá práca ruských vojakov. len tak ďalej chlapci, víťazstvo bude vaše. treba zabíjať bez milosti tie fašistické hnidy. prišli na ruskú zem aby vraždili tak im treba rovnakou mincou oplatiť!!! nemali by brať žiadnych zajatcov. oko za oko, zub za zub!!! svetu mier!!!
my slováci sme najstatočnejší národ na svete. vždy, keď niekde dôjde ku konfliktu, okamžite sa vzdáme, potom sledujeme boj prasiat a starostlivo zvažujeme, ktoré z nich vyhrá. keď sa zápas chýli ku koncu, pridáme sa k víťaznej strane a potom sa na 50 rokov šplháme do konečníka víťazného prasaťa.
folks, imagine ruzzia fighting against a country which has an air force – ruzzian nazis would be crushed within a week 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆
keep imagining boy.
ukraine has an airforce. or had an airforce.
lol you moron. nato, usa and eu massively pumped up ukros with some 300 billion usd in arms, ammo, money and economic support in the last 2,5 years. because of that most nato countries now have empty stocks, empty pockets, huge debts and a naked arse. and so ukros will also run out of everything in a not so far future.
ruzzian propaganda said on the 26 february 2022 “ukraine is again part of the ruzzian empire” – you poor little nazi 🫵🤡 😆😆😆
really a big joke and laugh when a little hasbara ukro nazi supporter hurenkind try to blame others as nazis lol as we remember from 1939 to 1945, the worlds biggest and best denazificator was russia, is russia and will be russia.
humiliating to be inferior species amerikunt
amerikunt transgender sawyer humiliated by taliban air force–lol
come next month, all vermin will be lost…
nato thinks it’s tanks are good because they cost a lot of money russia likes them too because they burn well
seems that armored fiat currently resides in sniflenskis ahole.
it is not happening quick enough to my mind. they are still north of malaya loknya. why? how? that means supplies and armour are successfully travelling all the way from sumy to pokrevki. 60km along exposed road, well observed, supposedly well registered with artillery and grad, vulnerable to mi-28 ka-52, to drones…. yet it gets there. in sufficient strength to not only sustain them at the front but enable them to keep mounting attacks.. i do not understand…
the purpose is the removal of slavs by the people who own the west and consider them to be subhuman.
dear dear dear .nothings what it seems such a nice diplomatic tidy little statement.