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NLAW: The British missile taking down
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/18/2022 10:38:39 PM

You’ve probably heard that the column of Russian tanks heading for Kyiv was stalled for a while and then broke up. The main reason Russian tanks have had such a hard time in Ukraine is a small anti-tank missile called the NLAW which stands for Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon. The NLAW is actually a joint venture between Sweden and the UK. It was developed by Saab but is assembled in Norther Ireland for the British military. And fortunately, Britain was already sent thousands of them to Ukraine. In video after video taken in Ukraine, a puff of smoke and a brief flash of light signal that another clutch

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 3/18/2022 10:59:18 PM (No. 1103833)
Fighting from an armored vehicle is far more dangerous now than 20 or 75 years ago. Russians getting a hard lesson.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Kumoan 3/19/2022 3:13:50 AM (No. 1103891)
I hope they don't pull a Biden and leave hundreds for the Russians and other malcontents to use against us.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 3/19/2022 4:14:46 AM (No. 1103898)
Good on the Brits. These anti-tank missiles have put the Russians in the same position they found themselves in during their invasion of Afghanistan in the 80s when they lost big helicopters on a daily basis to Stingers. They deserve every bit of defeat and humiliation for targeting civilians.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: NullUnit60 3/19/2022 5:29:57 AM (No. 1103918)
Well, the T-72 is the Ford Pinto of tanks. Hit it in the right spot and it goes up like a road flare.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: F15 Gork 3/19/2022 7:31:27 AM (No. 1103981)
Not a good time to be a Rooskie tank driver....
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Reply 6 - Posted by: TCloud 3/19/2022 8:39:35 AM (No. 1104039)
Had better have a whole lot more of where those came from. Roosyia is prepared to take the losses and keep on comin. It is who they are! Poke da Bear you WILL get clawed and bitten! They already handed out captured ATGMs/Manpads/T-72 MBTs/ APCs to the Rebels in Ludansk and Donetsk fighting against Ukraine military over a week ago. MIG 31s launched Hypercruise missiles that hit and destroyed an ammo storage complex that contained AA munitions.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: rikkitikki 3/19/2022 9:22:55 AM (No. 1104088)
I'm no defense analyst, but seems to me that the days of armored vehicles (heavy, medium, or light), have just hit a dead end...kind of like when airplanes ended the era of humongous battleships. And we haven't even touched the subject of drones in their many varieties (Predators, Switchblades, etc). When a single infantry soldier can take out a single armored vehicle with a cheap, disposable weapon he carried into position...(NLAW, Javelin, etc.) it sure looks like it's the end of the road. Big question...is an NLAW effective against the superior armor of a more modern Abrams tank?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bighambone 3/19/2022 11:48:47 AM (No. 1104229)
Last summer the British military mothballed some of their main battle tanks and hinted that such tanks would not be nearly as effective weapons systems in future ground combat as they were in past conflicts. Now maybe we know why they made their decision to mothball some of their tanks?
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