The T-90M has better thermals than the Leopard 2A6, though.
The War in the Ukraine
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I wonder if the Leopard has good composite armor. Never heard anything special about it, unlike the much vaunted Challenger 2 Chobham or Abrams' DU plates. Would be interesting to read the findings in a few months on BMPD or Andrei_btvt's livejournal pages.
Careful about reading Noel Reports. He's very... Umm. Enthusiastic. I think OSINTDefender is actually one of the more reliable sources. He tends not to call things until they're more or less confirmed by multiple sources.
Anyway, I don't recall seeing this in the thread, but Russia recaptured Makarovka according to Rybar.
MCLC from an helicopter would be nice but hovering near the enemy is hugely suicide you still need airpower for them to do any works... Using road give so many choke points, it cannot be used for assault at all.
Not a lot of solutions to that problem... Carpet bombing with thermobaric MLRS could probably disable most of the mines but if the field is full of deep pit, it will not help the advancing column.
In the middle of a battle, I would not throw soldiers to retrieve trophies... would be better to toss a fab500 in the middle of disabled vehicules than losing life to get pile of scrap.
Ukraine offensive is in full swing, they certainly know more about Russian defensive system in the region and next waves are going to be harder to stop if they are learning. With the forces commited in the past week, it's hard now to try from scratch elsewhere but it's probably hard to throw brigades where other got hammered badly. Maintaining moral will be hard, they will need a good foothold to procede.
All of modern heavy composite armor setups live in more or less similar physics.
After that it's mostly PR.
Light composite setups are, on the other hand, more tricky - they're still not magical, but harder to produce at scale.
MI-28NM and KA-52 combat Footage with no date
you can see it firing LMUR missile
80th Tank Regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Division has been given T-80BV to replace T-72 losses and they have also Recieved some T-90M
you can see it firing LMUR missile
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Some mariupol footage at the end ? Are they landing there ? Maybe it's why they got some strike on Mariupol airport if they are using it for Attack Heliport.
I think there's a need for a specialized unmanned demining platform. Probably a low flying (1-3 meters or so above the ground) quadcopter that can scan the ground for mines and mark them for destruction via another platform, like a small caliber mortar a few kms back. A system like that should be fairly cheap.