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July 05, 2005
The Russian Army Rates Our Armour...
This is an interesting analysis of the performace of the U.S. Armor (M-1 Abrams, M-2 Bradly and the Stryker). It appears in something called Moscow Defence Brief.
- Nevertheless, the Abrams tank proved itself to be a formidable fighting machine with no serious competitor on the battlefield, while losses resulting from combat or technical causes remained within reasonable limits...
The Bradley Fighting Machine on the whole performed rather well, though the destruction of several vehicles by anti-tank RPG suggests that in spite of the significant resources devoted to the development of additional anti-hollow charge defences, U.S. engineers have not yet solved the problem of 360-degree protection even from older generations of light anti-tank weapons. The installation of slat armor on the Stryker APC marks a real breakthrough in this regard. This extremely simple design reduced the effectiveness of the older types of light anti-tank weapons by some 200% or more.
It is a highly detailed analysis which talks about a number of tank losses which were not talked about during the war.
Here is a commentary by a group which has long opposed the Stryker but now admits that it seems to be much more effective than they thought...
Posted by rakhier at July 5, 2005 03:05 PM