• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The leak happened earlier this week during a forum discussion regarding the T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-90S Russian main battle tanks, all of which are currently in service and appear in War Thunder itself. The documents shared are user manuals meant for those operating said vehicles and have, like most other military documents, been declared classified or sensitive even though they contain relatively surface-level information.

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      4 months ago

      “all of which are currently in service” you mean like T54s? Saying that is absurd, even if you talk about Russia specifically. T34s are used elsewhere, let’s see when Russia starts fielding them.

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        yeah russia’s ability to send mid-20th century mbt’s to ukraine for scrapping by drone has been wild.

        my fav is the turtle cage, the gigantic boxes of welded metal where the turret can’t move and they don’t even provide the gun with ammo, just use it as some kind of giant shit troop transport.

        I know russia uses blocking units to keep their forces from retreating but they also must have some kind of prodding battalions just to get these poor shitbags to the front line in the first place, there’s no fucking way I’d hop on a chinese quad or ride some battery powered scooter into combat but we’re seeing it every fucking day.