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If you're going to attempt to write about a topic it's good to get the basics right. The crew of an Abrams don't all "sit in the turret." Even the diagram included in your article shows this clearly. Moreover, you omit most of the reasons Western armor has proven ineffective in Ukraine: stacked anti-tank mines, drones giving battlefield transparency so artillery can knock out armor, the difficulty of massing equipment without it being spotted and destroyed before it can be used for an assault, and the fussiness of the Abrams which is ill-suited to a situation in which there are no safe places in which to perform maintenance and repairs.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

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