Found great Russian analytics on how to deal with Bradley. Turns out Bradleys are weak.
“Hitting any part of Bradley with a bomb from a plane will guarantee a total destruction of a vehicle”.
KevinC
22434
Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like the Challengers are for political purposes (open the door for tank transfers), not heavy combat use. Of course, it’s even better if they can be put to good use for both.
Isn’t this basically true for any armored vehicle? Of course, you have to be willing to fly aircraft into harm’s way to act on this information.
KevinC
22436
The Russians cracked the code! We’re doomed!
Stand aside, tank busting is what the A-10 was built for!
ducks
schurem
22439
Entirely dependent on the size of the bomb, the accuracy of its placement and the morale of its crew. Precision guidance ensuring a direct hit will pretty much make the latter factor irrelevant. But a 2000 pounder going off in the close vicinity is quite the significant emotional event.
6000 tiny little bombs per minute!
Sure, but aircraft can take out armored vehicles doesn’t seem like the kind of thing nobody ever thought of before.
Keep using it in fairly undemanding infantry support roles which is it’s strongest suit anyway.
Right.
Restart the IL-2 assembly lines!
I wonder, though, rather than using Western tanks as infantry support–which the Russian designed stuff can do just as well–wouldn’t it be more productive to use the small numbers of these modern MBTs in dedicated anti-tank units? I would think working at night, at long range, taking advantage of the sensors and fire control superiority these vehicles bring to the table, you could wreak havoc on Russian armored formations which probably would not be able to fire back.
Of course, I have no idea if the Russians actually are deploying tanks in ways that would be vulnerable to such a hunter-killer approach. But to have NATO standard tanks and not use their biggest advantages would seem a waste.
Canuck
22446
This is it. 10 tanks aren’t going to make much of a difference even if they never had a breakdown. They could even ship 10 non-working tanks for all the difference it would make. The real important thing here is that this signifies a new stage in the conflict.
Thrag
22447
Russian missile strike hits apartment complex in Dnirpo.
They are still trying to pull people out of the rubble.
Calls to mind the (probably apocryphal) story of when the British asked the French at the beginning of WWI what the smallest number of men that would be useful to them was, they got the reply, “Just one… and we shall see to it that he is killed.”
Not apocryphal!
A question that Wilson asked of Foch during his second visit in January 1910, evoked an answer which expressed in one sentence the problem of the alliance with England, as the French saw it.
“What is the smallest British military force that would be of any practical assistance to you?” Wilson asked.
Like a rapier flash came Foch’s reply, “A single British soldier—and we will see to it that he is killed.”
Tuchman reports it.
Pretty sure that @alekseivolchok had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when posting this Russian revelation ;-)
That must be where I remember it from, I definitely read that book. For some reason, it really sounds to me like it has to be apocryphal.
