The Ukrainian Armed Forces are experiencing big problems with Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.

January 29 2024 13

The Ukrainian army is experiencing a number of serious problems with the Western military technique. This especially applies to Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. According to Foreign Affairs magazine, out of hundreds of German tanks, 26 were knocked out during the fighting. Others are difficult to use due to problems with repairs and the supply of spare parts.

An additional complication is that the effectiveness of the use of Leopards lies in the coordination between infantry units, artillery and engineering troops. The availability of supporting infrastructure is also very important. The situation on the battlefield shows that such interaction is very difficult to implement.

As a result, Western technology did not play a leading role in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ summer counteroffensive, which overall ended in failure.

The American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles also did not prove to be very effective. Ukrainian military personnel are critical of the ability of these combat vehicles to withstand harsh weather conditions. In addition, the quality of many Bradleys supplied to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces leaves much to be desired. Their production was discontinued back in 1995, and the infantry fighting vehicles were in the warehouses of the American army for a long time.

Thus, out of more than 200 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles delivered to Ukraine, over the next five months, 80 vehicles were destroyed in battle. These infantry fighting vehicles suffered especially heavy losses in the area of the village of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region.

Additionally, Bradleys are notorious for having fairly limited armor protection. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also experience constant difficulties with ammunition for such equipment.

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Kiril

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29 January 2024 19: 30

Well, go back and demand something worthwhile
Disinfo

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29 January 2024 22: 47

Over design junk when not supported by a huge logistics system.
Fizik13

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30 January 2024 00: 36

It's the same as driving a BUGATTI or Lamborghini over bumps for at least 15 minutes, and then standing and scratching.... the back of your head, and not what you thought and saying - Well, Bobby, are you dead?
Flight

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30 January 2024 03: 34

An additional complication is that the effectiveness of the use of Leopards lies in the coordination between infantry units, artillery and engineering troops. The availability of supporting infrastructure is also very important. The situation on the battlefield shows that such interaction is very difficult to implement.

There is no bad technology, there are stupid commanders.
Nemchura, in WWII, used every kind of technology, and successfully.

The American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles also did not prove to be very effective. Ukrainian military personnel are critical of the ability of these combat vehicles to withstand harsh weather conditions.

However, two Bradleys destroyed the T-90.
lord-palladore-11045

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30 January 2024 07: 45

An additional complication is that the effectiveness of the use of Leopards lies in the coordination between infantry units, artillery and engineering troops. The availability of supporting infrastructure is also very important. The situation on the battlefield shows that such interaction is very difficult to implement.

that’s the point - military equipment should be widely universal, so that in the heat of battle you don’t have to look for solutions to intermediate problems; strict specialization is not beneficial in a combat situation!
twice-born

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30 January 2024 11: 06

Yes, according to our media, the fascists, no matter what, have problems with everything! And with shells, and with equipment, and with aviation, and with missiles, and with roads, and with trenches, and with soldiers, and with supplies and with pay! Only such problem guys stand and stand for some reason, and do not run across the Polish border. Only they have no problems with drugs and barrage detachments. What is the secret of their persistence is not clear!
But the enemy behaves the way you allow him to. Maybe this is all because our people are initially not allowed to fight normally and defeat the fascists?
Either it was impossible to shoot at them, then it was impossible to blow up barracks and warehouses, then negotiations, then gestures of goodwill and regrouping, then they bombed for a year it’s not clear what, but like the energy system, and the bridges still stand from Donetsk to the fascists, even at the minimum safe 40 km. , have not been driven away in 2 years! But thousands of Russians are still dying, becoming crippled, and the fascists are not punished in any way for their atrocities against the people!
We are still waiting for them to be supplied with problematic Western aircraft and long-range missiles with 2 million drones, and officially send problematic Western troops? Then they will allow the Russians to fight as they should?
1. Nelton
  
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  30 January 2024 11: 38
  
  Quote: Twice-born
  Yes, according to our media, the fascists, no matter what, have problems with everything!
  ...Only such troubled guys just stand and stand and don’t run across the Polish border
  
  Exactly. Every street and house is given with great difficulty, and occupied does not mean retained.
  
  Quote: Twice-born
  initially they don’t allow us to fight normally
  
  What do you mean by “normal”?
  Everything that is convection has been used for a long time, including TOS.
  Recently, both sides and cassette players have begun to be used.
  
  There is no total removal of all civilian...
  But this is not a one-sided game; each side finds something to respond to any increase in the level of escalation.
  And the removal of, say, the DneproGES will in no way reduce the West’s ability to “supply problematic Western aircraft and long-range missiles with 2 million drones”, it will only add incentives.
  1. twice-born
    
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    30 January 2024 13: 35
    
    You're a fool, don't drive. I have already written what it means to fight normally. And this is not a “total removal of everything civilian”! So, as I already wrote, the civilian energy system was bombed for a year, have you forgotten?
    First, destroy the supply routes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (bridges across the Dnieper, then their pontoons, railway junctions, tunnels) and there will be a case, and our all-out real offensive. And then, don’t push the fascists out with heavy losses, but surround them, and then there will be victory! Moreover, without “removing everything civilian” and without our unnecessary losses.
    But there is no order for this. But ours can do this.
    1. Nelton
      
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      30 January 2024 14: 00
      
      Quote: Twice-born
      destroy the supply routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (bridges across the Dnieper, then their pontoons
      
      Should we destroy the dams (5) across the Dnieper?
      they are all passable for transport.
      Incl. railway ( 2 ).
      And their capacity is quite sufficient to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
      
      Quote: Twice-born
      surround them
      
      In the current tactical scenario, it is impossible to covertly concentrate large forces for a breakthrough, and when concentrated, they become very vulnerable.
      1. WFP
        
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        30 January 2024 22: 30
        
        Should we destroy the dams (5) across the Dnieper?
        they are all passable for transport.
        
        You might think that the crests would present them to us on a silver platter, safe and sound.
        As soon as our troops approach them, the dams will be destroyed. Just like Kakhovskaya.
        Don’t you see that Ukraine is using “scorched earth” tactics in relation to the abandoned territories?
        
        Nelton
        
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        30 January 2024 22: 44
        
        Quote: PMA
        As soon as our troops approach them, the dams will be destroyed.
        
        I don’t think that there will be a way out to the Dnieper directly in stubborn battles.
        There are too many similarities with the First World War. It’s the same there, the front held out until the last, and then collapse and collapse due to overstrain in the rear.
        First, the front collapsed in Russia, and a year later in Germany.
        So it is important that our rear remains confident, and not control over the forester’s hut.
      2. twice-born
        
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        31 January 2024 11: 52
        
        We still need to get to the dams! You can bomb all the entrances to them into a mess, along with the equipment, and then the repairmen. Why can’t bridges be demolished, of which there are many in addition to dams? The supply of APU will already be significantly reduced!
        And somehow the Ukrainians managed to concentrate their forces for attacks! Destroy and burn out American reconnaissance satellites and aircraft. Are you afraid of their answers, what? They are already waging war on us.
        
        Nelton
        
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        31 January 2024 12: 26
        
        Quote: Twice-born
        Ukrainians managed to concentrate forces for attacks!
        
        The US and allies have much more and better reconnaissance satellites.
        Ours have single devices, and it’s not a fact that their trajectories pass over the LBS.
        But what we have is enough to nullify the vaunted counter-offensive.
        
        Why can’t bridges be demolished, of which there are many in addition to dams? The supply of APU will already be significantly reduced!
        Are you afraid of their answers, what?
        
        Firstly, it is far from a fact that it is purely technically possible to demolish bridges and much more.
        Substations (they were initially very fragile) and port infrastructure were actively bombed - and everything was promptly restored and working.
        There were also arrivals over the bridges.
        But as in Serbia, bombing point-blank with heavy aerial bombs, and so on up to 5 times, will not provide air defense to the enemy.
        And missiles for strikes, capable of overcoming air defense and with a large charge, are not cheap.
        The Antonovsky Bridge - the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot almost point-blank, and even then they could not disable it, so the evacuation was carried out through it.
        
        Secondly, the attacks on the Russian Federation are by no means total.
        There are bridges across the Don in Rostov, there are intact power plants - both the ordinary ones in Crimea (those that were introduced with such pathos when solving the energy blockade) and the Kursk nuclear power plant.