These weapons looked mighty and invincible because they kept using them on Ahmed the farmer.

They can’t use nato tactics without air dominance.

Never bring a tank to a shovel fight.

'Game changer' left the game 😂😂😂😂😂

Them tanks are good on paper when there is no airpower that has destroyed everything first

So the term "cope cage" is official now. Wow lol

You can't use combined arms warfare without overwhelming air dominace

New age of warfare 40 years ago we didn’t have drones we do now

Another news report where Russia is losing yet gained about 10 km in the last two weeks. What is this news report talking about 3000 tanks and Ukraine lost five tanks this is some serious cop.

Too late ... Several have been captured one confirmed on its way to Moscow

Except the Ukrainians can't use true NATO combined arms tactics, they don't have control of the air. It was unrealistic of NATO to expect Ukraine to use NATO tactics with out the required air support. Its wise to withdraw the Abrams, there is no point in taking unnecessary loses.

Those tanks only help against third world countries. Not Russia

R.I.P tanks, era of drones has come.

This always happens. Once upon a time, the battleship was queen of the sea then air power rendered it obsolete. Tank armour was improved and tandem warheads were developed. One innovation leads to another. This is nothing new. Tanks will be fitted with anti-drone defences and then everyone will say drones are obsolete. Tanks were a solution to trench warfare and so it continues. The only thing you can guarantee is change.

What a surprise. Nothing is invulnerable.

Lol. $10 Million tank destroyed by $5K drone.

I love how the term 'cope cage' has now become official parlance

It's just in: tanks not invulnerable

But they media told us that Russian Army was fighting with shovels and sticks

I’m not a Russia supporter but where is the proof they lost 3k tanks

I dont think there is any mass produced tank thats not vulnerable to drone attacks

NATO needs to start changing its whole doctrine and focus on the drone threat. Drones have made such a change to modern warfare as the machine gun did in WW1.

Ever since the Abrams was designed there have been doubts about the gas turbine hot exhaust being easily detectable. In the past their foes did not have the technology to exploit the weakness, now they do!

In modern warfare, tanks can only be used with air cover. It simply won't do without it :)

The Abrams joins the Challenger in the rear.

Wtf guys here talking about control of the air? You dont just control the air if your enemy is a legit power. Do you think the allies control the air in world war 2? In the first major clashes? It was only controled when germany was about to lose.

Nlaws and javelins are far and few between,the real threat is from fpv drones which strangely enough russia was aware would be a problem from day 1 of the invasion which is why they pre-installed them.

The shovels are sharp. Even Abrahams are scared of them

No need to watch the video, we've already seen the Russian FOV videos of them offing the Abrams among other western tanks.

The Abrams' non-admission to the front line is a violation of human rights. Russian soldiers have already issued a mortgage for these tanks. I demand that the tanks be returned to their place and that the violation of international law be stopped!

Us told them their Abrams were indestructible as the the 'game changers'

Not just the abrams but all kinds of Tanks are vulnerable to drone attacks.

Air dominance then ground dominance, first rule of war.

Well, learn and adapt.

Supposedly "all of Russias pre-war inventory of tanks has been destroyed". And yet, they still keep coming with unrelenting ferocity. Perhaps this claim isn't entirely true, eh?

The Abram can’t add additional cope cage because it’s already overweight on the Slavic Mud field and is getting bogged down

The problem is with Western tanks none of them have been really truly tested in the theatre of war until now. And now we are seeing their startling vulnerabilities.

OH 💩 Col. McGregor predicted this would happen.

The political system in UK is rotten 😂😂😂

The main issue preventing NATO tactics is the minefield. One can't fight ground manoeuvre warfare unless they have punched through or cleared the minefield. The way NATO does that is by ensuring the enemies ability to Observer, Orient, Decide and Act has been destroyed or diminished enough so that ground forces can clear sections of the minefield undisturbed.

Both parties have the same issue. In ww1 it was the machine gun, in this war the drones. Whoever solves that issue will gain the initiative.

Abrams never in it's 40 year life faced a worthy opponent, feasting on poor farmers and tribesmen. Now, it meets a peer foe and it fails miserably within weeks of its combat debut

its not that they won't use combined arms tactics, they don't have the aircraft to do it

1year ago Russia lost 5800 Tanks now Russia lost 3000 Tanks 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Russia retreating forward Ukraine advancing Backwards 😂😂😂

I was thinking abrams is indestructible 🤷‍♂️. Looks like the same with Leopard 2 or Challenger 2.

You can’t fight a combined arms war when you haven’t been supplied with the necessary equipment, like aircraft!!

First of all any tank can be knocked out secondly tanks are an offensive weapon that. The war now is at a stale mate so any tank hanging around the front is going to get picked off eventually.

What about the rarely spotted Challenger 2?

The tank was state of the art in 1945. It’s really been a relic ever since. If you can’t achieve air superiority and in short bursts air dominance (there is a difference), then you can’t win a protracted war.

No tank is invincible

The footage of their Defence Minister in the tank factory just shows how woefully under-armoured we are. Whilst Challenger 2 is excellent, and Ch3 will be even better, 148 units is simply NOWHERE near enough. Even though we're NATO. we must field a credible force to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. 148 CH3's (and all our combined arms assets is simply not enough).

The US is a paper tiger.

Abrams have never had to fight in a real war.

Any tank is vulnerable to drone attacks when you have no coordinated air superiority or anti drone measures in place. It aint an Abrams thing, its a tank vs drone thing.

What!? According the msm Ukraine are winning 10:1

In the Vietnam War the North Vietnamese Army never committed their T-55 and PT-76 tanks to the frontline because they knew it was suicide and had no chance vs an American M48A3 tank and Air power! Only on the final days of the war when the US was pulling out of South Vietnam then the tanks came rolling in.

US Industrial complex will be ruined if losses mount.

Even in the rear, Abrams still got spotted and destroyed with one drone.

Remember Vietnam? America…..All the gear and no idea….

Misleading those are not new tanks…. Those are reconditioned T80’s from reserve stocks.

Wonder weapon runs away from the fight....I wonder what those countries buying this very expensive piece of 💩 think now

All tanks are vulnerable to drone strikes, doesnt matter where they are made.

NOOOOO, this will affect the sales of abrams

Turtle tanks are a real game changer compared to M1

Desperate 2nd half of video to pretend Ukraine is not losing big time. Do they think we don't know a lot better?

Abrams isnt as effective as ATACMS

First, Ukraine denies withdrawing any armor. Second, all tanks are vulnerable to drones. It’s a shift in warfare that welding sheetmetal over the tanks won’t stop

Air power was only a massive advantage in ww2 when aircraft and even land systems were built in a few hours or a day. Today aircraft take hundreds and thousands of hours to build and an aircraft carrier takes 5 years to fabricate and construct.

SO THE GAME CHANGER WAS UTTERLY USELESS and a glass cannon.

OOOOOH THE NAFO COPE!

I think the Abrams tank would do well in the Museums, look majestic sitting inside..

There goes the record of destroyed by enemy units.

Very clumsy and impartial reporting. Ukraine has no possibility of using "combined arms warfare" and has NOT had that option at all. This means, among other things, you have to have an airforce, or at least not be facing 10+ to 1 odds. The other thing you are missing is that the world and warfare is now firmly into the drone age. Until rapid firing radar directed laser weapons are fielded in large numbers, combined with other arms (see how that works?), all vehicles are just going to get pulverized on both sides. If any nation were in Ukraines spot right now, the story would be the same, drones killing expensive tanks.

American soldiers and weapons are bad ass, Until they face Caucasians 😂

based solely on losses basically every piece of equipment can be considered obsolete.

Tanks are not designed to take ATGM hits on the sides, top or rear. That is what some of these drones are. ATGMs that can fly around and strike vulnerable areas.

If everyone is using "cope cages" despite everyone saying "cope cages" don't work then they do work.

How on Earth do you expect Ukraine to use combined arms tactics when they don't have any NATO-standard aircraft?! If they had F-16s for the counter-offensive last year, they would at the very least have liberated Tokmak, and at most would have cut the land bridge to Crimea. But our leaders dithered. And now all humanity will pay dearly for the long war to follow.

This is the strip downed version without any of the latest tech. Also, no tank is invincible. Without good training and air support, they're vulnerable.

It’s like fighting an army of orcs and your knights gets slaughtered

Atleast withdrawal of American Abrams is a news unlike the withdrawal of British tincans called challengers😅😅

Every country that ordered them should reject the deal lol

They never beat the Russian like that way if they need to regain back their territories..🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

This has already been denied. They aren't removing the tanks from the fronts.

the amount of braindead nato bots in these comments 💀

$10M tank, 50 cent drone-- BOOOM!

"Never bring your Abrams to a shovel fight." Tsung xu.

I think the best to use tanks is with the help of air support

Putin troll comments flooding in

Challenger now Abraham wonder weapons 😀😀

So the legendary m1 Abrams is vulnerable to "meat wave-attacks"?

Abrams, invincible.. only in videogames..or against flip flop desert rebels..

Have you seen how Ukraine is using Western armor? This has literally nothing to do with the tanks themselves. When Western countries agreed to send tanks to Ukraine, I GUARANTEE YOU they sent them believing that Ukraine was going to mass ALL OF THEM (Abrams, Challengers, Leopards AND their IFVs like Bradleys, Marders, CV90s, etc) in one spot...likely in the south of the country...and use them all together as a sledgehammer to smash through Russian defenses in one massive offensive push. Instead, Ukraine spread all of them out randomly along a 1,000 km+ front line and is using them exactly like they use their junk Soviet equipment. The footage is available online for anyone to see. You NEVER see multiple Western tanks or IFVs fighting together in a combined force. Instead, you see footage of ONE tank or ONE Bradley out in the middle of a field all by itself shooting at a random target and then retreating. Western countries have never, and would never, use ANY armor like that. Ukraine is just wasting this equipment. They are making good use of Western artillery, HIMARS, Patriots, etc...but they are straight-up wasting Western armor. ESPECIALLY the tanks. Sometime around January of 2023, two Green Berets who went to Ukraine voluntarily to train Ukrainian troops after Russia invaded came back home to the US and wrote an article about the biggest problems the Ukrainians were facing. This was BEFORE Western armor was sent to Ukraine. In their article, they perfectly predicted how Western armored vehicles were going to be wasted by the Ukrainians. They said that NATO countries were doing a fantastic job training Ukrainian troops. The problem? NATO countries WERE NOT TRAINING UKRAINIAN COMMANDERS! So we were training Ukrainian troops in Western military tactics on Western military equipment, then we were shipping these troops and this equipment back to Ukraine where the Ukrainian COMMANDERS were just throwing Ukrainian troops into unorganized mass attacks on Russian positions EXACTLY LIKE the Russians have been doing from day one. Just sending a small group of Ukrainian troops in Western armor straight into a mined Russian area with no air cover, no artillery cover, no backup, no plan, no nothing. Remember early on when the Russians posted video footage of like six or seven Bradleys and three or four Leopard tanks all massed in a pile and abandoned? The Ukrainians did LITERALLY EXACTLY what I just mentioned. Their commander just Leroy Jenkins'd these Western IFVs and tanks straight into a Russian minefield with no plan other than "attack this tree line". As soon as they hit mines and disabled their IFVs, they had no choice but to abandon everything and run away or else they were going to get smoked by Russian artillery. The Ukrainians inside those Bradleys and Leopards survived, and they eventually recovered those abandoned tanks and IFVs, but those pieces of equipment were completely wasted. They did NOTHING. They drove straight into a minefield, got disabled and damaged and then got shipped back to Poland to be repaired. These Green Berets predicted EXACTLY what was going to happen with all of this Western armor, but nobody listened. And apparently nobody bothered to train Ukrainian commanders in Western tactics. People got up-in-arms when Zelensky fired Valerii Zaluzhnyi as the C-i-C of the Ukrainian armed forces back in February because Zaluzhnyi was so well-liked by his troops. But I will bet you anything that firing him was 100% the correct move and it was 100% because he and his commanders were just wasting these Western-trained troops and this Western armor in Soviet-style failed attacks without EVER changing tactics. So the reality is that Ukraine should've kept ALL of these Western tanks parked in a Soviet-era nuclear bunker somewhere safe from day one. They never should've used them to begin with because they were always just going to waste them. This has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the tanks themselves. Not Abrams or Leopards or Challengers. Those tanks are GENERATIONS BETTER than ANY tank Russia has. But if you are just going to use them as big armored targets, and the only good they do is keeping the Ukrainians inside of them alive when they are hit by Russian drones or mines or artillery, then what is even the point of having them?

Who could of guessed? Thought they where invincible? Nafo adornists told me it would turn the tide!

That’s a change from Afghan farmers. many weapons were left in Afganistan, he should have also left the Abrahams which would have been used to plow the fields.

Any piece of military hardware is only as good as the soldiers using it, as well as the larger picture of support and sustainment. The abrams is a cog in the US military machine, on its own it is just a tank.

Oh dear it’s almost like all western media was laughing at Russia at the start of the war saying there was no way Ukraine could lose essentially

Time to bring back fortresses and bulwarks.

wut??? a jet engine easy to see in infrared??? I would have never guessed...