Posted on May 21, 2023
Russia is so low on armor it's putting artillery and naval guns on old vehicles
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"Battlefield adjustments are as old as war itself, of course, and armoring Humvees will not prevent American troops riding in them from becoming casualties. But no one argues they are better off unarmored.
Troops on the ground know this better than anyone. In World War II, U.S. tank crews reacted to an earlier such error — German shells were passing right through the armor on their Sherman, Grant and Stuart tanks — by applying “iron Band-Aids,” spare strips of tank track welded to the hulls of their tanks.
Supply problems also play their part."
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https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4731185
Troops on the ground know this better than anyone. In World War II, U.S. tank crews reacted to an earlier such error — German shells were passing right through the armor on their Sherman, Grant and Stuart tanks — by applying “iron Band-Aids,” spare strips of tank track welded to the hulls of their tanks.
Supply problems also play their part."
Welcome to war.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4731185
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