So about 20 left and we still didn't see any T-tank vs Abrams fight yet. Damn drones ruined armoured warfare.

A whole new front has opened in the comments: the 68th and 69th NAFO Cope Brigade vs the 2nd and 3th Russ Bots Battalion.

It's a real war, tanks get blown up and sometimes captured. The Crews are terrified of burning to death so often the crew will jump out even if the tank is still in fighting shape.

People saying about Russians wanting to capture unharmed Abrams tank to examine it... fully forgetting that even Egypt, current BRICKs member and close Russian ally, have over 1300 Abrams tanks that been fully inspected from top to bottom by Russian military specialists years ago. They even had time to test all current shells for penetration at various angles. P.S. at 2nd Iraq war there was a Russian specialist team who secretly tested Kornet ATGM at Abrams in real combat. C'mon, guys! Where is the analytics? Russians know more about Abrams then its operator crew. Pretty sure there is a full documentation available

FPV drones have really changed the game when it comes to armored combat. Not saying they are now obsolete but they are definitely not as good as they used to be 20-30 years ago.

Tanks in the 1930s: well, we just need protection on the front against other tanks, the sides will only be shoot with rifles. Tanks in the 1950s: well, we only need protection on the side against light RPG and bazookas and recoilless rifles... Tanks in the 1990s: well, we only need protection on the front, the side, and the skirts, and active defense because RPGs, IEDs, ATMGs, etc etc... Tanks in the 2020s: well, it's either a perfect sphere of armor or nothing I guess.

Turns out it doesn't matter what tank you use since all can be disabled by mine and then destroyed by an FPV.

Don't bring an Abrams to a shovel fight

you dont send 31 tanks to a war to help out, you send hem to see how they stand up top modern warfare

LazerPig must be furiously painting his nails somewhere!

Never thought I'd see the day that an Abrams would be sporting Kontakt-1

It’s lacking putinium armor

What crazy is that some expert and analyst immediatly claim that tank is now obsolete or not that useful when they saw Abrams destroy that so quickly and they panic so hard. idk what did they expect in conventional war for tank

They ain't got the Russian bias armor

Everyone is an idiot for using a bloody horrible war for bragging rights in a comments section.

Same thing that happens with any other tank in this war. Seen by recon drone and promptly destroyed with fpv drone, atgm or mine. Recon drones that allows you to see the every movement of the enemy has never happened before in a war. It’s no wonder tanks are being destroyed so frequently in this war.

It is how it is

Great video 🙂

New video in quite some time

Maintenance company I +5% to division capture rate

Abrams: Has blow up panels to protect the crew from a ammunition explosion Russian: entire Turret blows off after a single hit in the ammunition rack. Russian people: NaTo TaNkS aRe A jOkE

Torsion bars are overstressed and collapsed when a tank burns out as well.

You hear stories about the Abrams tanking 100 RPG shots and not being destroyed, but some shitty little drone takes them out ...

Fpv drones with rpg warheads are crazy scary for tanks. They can hit you in the roof where you got no armor. This war turned into pure attrition war, and i dont fancy chances of smaller industrial power. (unless they get a ton of support every year ofc)

So what we see survivability of Leopard 2 is indeed the best among all tanks western or eastern alike. Good Armor in combination with the best chioces are made for ammo storage ! It was critisised over and over again for having still a big ammo storage in the hull. But as it turns out it is the better option. So Abrams has virtualy all ammo in his Turret behind a door. OK. But it has 42 rounds of ammo there. Leopard has 15. So even in case of ammo going of in the turret (considering bulkhead closed in both cases) on Leopard it is 15 rounds burning. Abrams cooking of is 42 rounds . So triple the amount of Leopard 2. Thats also tripple the energy stored there. And that fire WILL burn its way either in the turret through that bulkhead or the enginedeck below. Thats the tanks complete inventory of ammo placed just in the highest point of the tank. it was always a weakspot. In the Bundeswehr it was known that that ammostorage is going to get hit . Nobody thought about drones back then but artillery was a concern. So in Leopard the biggest amount of ammo is cosiderably protected by heavy frontal armor and heavy sideskirts. It was always the better choice. Fast foward to today and exactly this Spot in the hull makes it virtually unreachable by drones. it would need literaly a top attack heavy warhead dronebomb to the drivers hull to have achance to set it of. All other angles are not possible for a drone to set the ammo off. On Abrams they put the all the ammo on the highest point and one does not just put all his ammo on the highest point on a tank and expect it to last. The soviets had kind of the right idea with their ammo storage but execution is bad as ukraine conflikt proves day by day.

There isnt an invincible weapons system, western tanks get destroyed in ukraine because they have huge bounties on their heads, as soon as they are spotted elite drone teams are dispatched to take them out, remember that russia is paying good money to soldiers who destroy these tanks. The other thing to remember is that ukraine doesnt haver air superiority or air support for its armored units, soldiers in this war say that there are hundreds of drones buzzing around, even the best tanks are going to be destroyed if they face 3 or 4 drones. Finally, ukraine has lost western tanks yeah, but russia has lost a lot of t80 and t90 tanks that are usually sold by russia as better than leopard, strv, challenger or abrams.

didn't Ukrainians take them off the battlefield recently because they were too heavy and were getting stuck in the mud? or is it because they were losing them too fast?

/k/opers made a thread about how "only 4" tanks were lost and a few days later it got up to 7. In that same thread they made some silly comparison to how many Russian tanks were lost when they should really be asking why those nations could only collectively muster 31 tanks. Those 31 aren't gonna last forever

If there is enough info available, could you make a video covering the leopard 1s that were sent to Ukraine and the variants. I haven't been able to find much on them, only that they're in Ukraine.

i feel like western media forgot abrams/ leopards/ challengers are tanks too and they arent invincible

30 tanks was never going to make a difference. Seriously - it was a joke! 30? Seriously

Can I ask you whats the music you use in the closer of the videos ? Its fire.

Abrams are so tough. Real piece of art.

I'm not sure why anyone expected the same brigade that kept driving their Leopard 2s over minefields wouldn't get the Abrams sideshot by ATGMs.

There is several aspect to concider here: -The video of russian moving the second tank , the good one could be old, kept under wraps until needed or riskis low enough. - the first one was just an empty shell. Ending up in the expo. The good one was disassemble and study, thus the silence on it. So watever happened to it was left to russia and nato spies. BUT, my guess is that it WAS analize. Why? Because months later we got drones precision strike Abram rear an neutralize them with a mere SIGLE drone. The termo video is A clear examle, and the forest one confirms it by precision.

Red is probably right about the leo2 at 6.43 couse we can't see side armour, upper frontal plate is on a whole diffrent level than track covers, and the side of the turret is very flat plus there probalby is no turret basket like on most abrams (if im wrong correct me bc it's the only evidance that i could find in this image)

The most wild thing is the footage coming out of people climbing on and in the burned out tanks, even when on display. FYI, don’t ever do that, even these ones don’t have uranium on board, all tanks have plenty of heavy metals and chemicals you don’t want to breath

They got BUCK-BROKEN.

Hey Redeffect could you do a video on the T-55AGM tank / Tifon2a? I’ve been curious and looking at info about it but sources of info are few and pretty much say the same thing.

Reminds me of the time in Warthunder where you just get revenged by drones.

You’ve given us the best unbiased coverage and the juiciest details of this war. You’re the best RedEffect! It’s been awhile since your last upload but it has been worth the wait!

Remember that british challenger survived hundreds of rpg and got 1 hit by kornet

Are these export Abrams with the reduced armor or domestic Abrams with the good armor? I'm guessing the former, but I don't know.

6:50, it's a Leopard 2A4, the turret cheeks are only angled along one axis and the sides of the turret have no angle to them, there is also no storage on the sides of the turret and only storage on the rear of the turret which is something more common with Leopard 2A4's.

I don't know why, but the Abrams looks like it stunk or the MBT-70 lol

Quickly. Catch that interior vid to see if it has a spallliner or not to end the damn debate in WT. XD

they were collecting 1 piece of each vehicle for park before may 9th. everything else is for testing but i suppose they are not in hurry for that.

Hey Just discovered your channel a hour ago,as i can see its pretty cool and into tanks,and as a tank lover,i subcribed. Says on your channel that location is croatia,i speak croatian...so thats cool

A comparative analysis of the Bradley and the Terminator would be interesting, I haven't seen an appearance of the Russian vehicle for a long time, while the Bradley seems to be still effective against tanks.

So lemme get this straight, the tanks were disabled, crews ran off, and THEN destroyed by missiles from drones when it's empty? Why? Why not recover the tank when it's less damaged

@RedEffect do you know which abram is one the red place?

Honestly that Abrams in the treeline, looks more like the bustle storage on the back of the turret is burning and not the blow out panels. same with the thermal camera tank......the crew stores their bedding and other crap on the rack in the rear of the turret and well, id guess thats easily burned up....

the US lost several M1 Abrams (sometimes with casualties) during the Iraq War to IEDs, RPGs and EFPs, so it's not wholly surprising to see some losses in Ukraine as well against more advanced weapons, although an insurgency in Iraq and a conventional war between two (near-)peers in Ukraine are two very different things.

What's the heating value of Western Added Value? Is it comparable to the turret-launching potential of the rusviet putiniun?

Will you do an analysis of all 138 T-90's up on Oryx so far?

Piranha FPV drone now in the history books as the "Abrams killer"

"Nah Uh, these tanks don't count"

There may already be a solution for the drone threat with the Iron Fist countermeasure.

Thanks, RedEffect.

There is nothing wrong with Abrams. Modern ATGMs will disable any western tank with 1 hit. Mines will disable the tracks of any tank that goes over them. The difference between Western and Soviet/Russian tanks is that an ATGM will disable the Western tank and the crew will at least have a chance to escape but in a soviet/Russian the chance of a catastrophic explosion because the ammunition inside the tank is hit with the ATGM means the crew has no chance to survive. Every single tank made as of now has no drone top attack protection since this is a brand new type of warfare. All tanks are made to defeat front direct hits from another tanks to various degrees. Brand new tanks will be have to made that take account of drone top attacks.

For Ukraine 200 T-series tank is better than 20 Abrams

Thank you very much for this excellent analysis

what's the song of your outro?

muh freebrams is now a jailedbrams

nice vid

Anybody notice how thin the number 1 and 2 skirts are??? It's not a deal breaker but one must wonder what else was removed/ replaced? The gunners station on the inside looks modified as well.

It surprises me that people would think that the blow-out panels would stop the tank from burning at all. There are some _very_ famous pictures of burned out M1s, at least one of those was destroyed because external cargo stowage caught fire.

Didn't live up to the hype they made it

These Abrams are being used as 'FireBrigade'.. running up n down the lines, lobbing shell.like an self propelled howitzer.. danggg..

I think the one with all the stuff that's still functional were towed back to the lab where they could examine the equipment so it couldn't be put it on display yet.

I'm more curious about what weapons those F.P.V. drones were using, and, what the best countermeasures for them would be.

Crew survivability is key. No tank is immune to mobility kills.

i don't expect the western nations to call these things "Game Changers" after what happened to it in ukraine

Damn bro 200k subs? Congrats

As someone said somewhere else, anyone can know everything about Abrams through war-thunder already.

I don't think there is a whole bunch they can learn from a 40 year old tank.

Upto this point no single Russian tank has been destroyed by any NATO tank lmao. Bradley disabling t-90 don't count as a kill

Where challenger 2 videos at?

crazy how we started from how scary tanks was in WW1 ( watch the tank scene from all quiet on the eastern front movie) to now this where drones can just clap almost any tank now

I went there yesterday got some pictures

Are there any mistakes in their usage? Maybe a look from this side would be interesting.

Where do you get those videos you use?

Abrams going through that Hector experience in Troy (post-duel).

Game changer guys

The crew may have gotten out of the Abrams but has it ever been confirmed that they survived and escaped?🤔

which abrams it is at 5:10 ?

Congratulations in advance for 200k❤

Game changer weapons

Russia doesn't show all their cards.

Can anyone explain to me why these tanks are all by themselves when they get taken out? Shouldn't there be supporting vehicles and infantry to help prevent a lot of this from happening, or am i mistaken? Where are the mine plows and such as welll?

Next applique armor that comes out has to effectively protect the tracks

5:08 i'd reckon they either got attacked while transporting it or kept it for testing and so on choosing to show of the destroyed abrams instead. Also showing a charred Abrams would be better propaganda Imho, as some peple tout them as these miracle machines.

Rededffeecccttttt yeeraaahhhhhhh

How did the drone blow off the wheels tracks?

When you pay golden eagle to buy premium abrams and end up in high rank br game

at least, the british doesn;t allowed to use Ch2 in combat after 1st lost..

Has there been an Abrams lost to another tank? Most of the destroyed Abrams I've seen were taken out by mines.

do they have any jammers ????

Note, if the tank has been on fire it may be the crew did it. We were given a white phosphorus grenade to destroy the tank in '91. Destroying a tank to prevent the enemy using it is part of your SO.

Whats happening is that a lot of people are getting very humiliated. Its not that people who actually understand battlefield dynamics didnt expect to see them getting banged with mines, drones and ATGM, just... like... everything... else. Its that everyone was so smug and arrogant about how a dozen M1s were going to roll up the steps of the Kremlin and into Putin's office. See, getting knocked on your ass isnt whats embarrassing. Its all the heavy words you have to eat, before you get up.