• @Hubi@feddit.de
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    147 months ago

    I don’t get why everyone is so excited about the T-55. I’m pretty sure they already fielded them last year and even turned them into VBIEDs.

    Wake me when they eventually pull the T-34s out of storage.

    • PugJesusOP
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      187 months ago

      By most accounts, the T-55s they pulled out were largely pulling duties in the rear to free up modern tanks. This is the first(?) time we’ve had solid confirmation that they’re putting them close to the front.

      Wake me when they eventually pull the T-34s out of storage.

      Fat chance - they had to borrow T-34s for their parades. They got rid of them long ago. No, it’s straight to the anti-elephant wagon after the T-55.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        107 months ago

        they had to borrow T-34s for their parades

        I think you mean they had to borrow T-34. Singular.

    • PugJesusOP
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      277 months ago

      Clearly you aren’t up-to-date with the latest in anti-elephant technology.

    • Justas🇱🇹
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      27 months ago

      I think they can use the polearm as a land oar to slowly steer it to some extent.

  • @HenryWong327@lemmy.ml
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    27 months ago

    What the hell is that contraption? There’s a guy holding a scythe along the ground, which can maybe hit people along 10% of the vehicle at most. There’s 2 fires just strapped to the front which… why? If you run someone over there isn’t much point trying to set them on fire as well. And then there’s the crane, which I just cannot comprehend what it could possibly be used for.

    • PugJesusOP
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      27 months ago

      Anti-elephant wagon. Think of it more like a semi-mobile wall than an offensive weapon.