• TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Ukrainian crews say the fundamental problem is that the Abrams were built for advances aided by air power and artillery, which Ukraine lacks.

    It seems to me like this might be the absolute biggest problem.

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        base your entire military doctrine around air superiority

        fight the other former superpower that also knows this and therefore has world leading air defence

        ???
        all my tanks broke

        There’s gotta be like 100 US STRATCOM guys shitting, pissing, screaming about this exact scenario to no avail as they keep sending more equipment that gets owned by a by some late 70s soviet stockpile shit with an accountable value of “Wait, why do we still have this?”

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      All of Americas combat doctrine assumes you’re doing strafing runs on rural farmers and have total air superiority.

      We have no idea how to fight an actual peer.