Saturday, February 27, 2016
America And Russia's War By Proxy In Syria Laid Bare
Daily Mail: America and Russia's war by proxy in Syria laid bare: The moment a $60k US-made missile hits a $4.5m Russian T-90 battle tank
* The CIA has been supplying vetted rebel groups with American weapons
* Mountain Hawks Brigade, fighting near Aleppo, have filmed themselves firing a TOW anti-tank missile system
* Target was a $4.5million T-90 tank, though it is not clear if it was being operated by Russian troops or Assad's forces
* Video shows missile hitting the tank, before crew are forced to flee moments later, suggesting it was badly damaged by the impact
* Video highlights dangerous proxy-war being waged between the U.S. and Russia in Syria, where a ceasefire is supposed to begin Saturday
Incredible footage has emerged showing the moment a Russian T-90 battle tank was hit by a $60,000 American-made TOW missile in Syria.
Uploaded by a Syrian rebel group called Mountain Hawks Brigade, fighting near the besieged city of Aleppo in the country's northeast, the film shows fighters coming under fire from the T-90.
As shots from the T-90's top-mounted machine gun crack and whistle overhead, the rebels can be seen adjusting and firing the missile which hits the tank head-on, just to the right of the main gun.
While the $60,000 projectile does not destroy the tank, crew can be seen fleeing the vehicle after it hits, suggesting it was badly damaged in the explosion.
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WNU Editor: The T-90 tank is built to survive such hits .... it looks like something malfunctioned.
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A tanks frontal armor is supposed to be its most protected side... Malfunction or not it being taken out was definitly caused by the TOW...
I saw the gunner jump out but not the other... I'd be curious to see the rest of the footage, did the tank cook off? was it abandoned?
Good question Anon. But aside from this video no one has added to the story.
http://southfront.org/t-90-proves-its-survivability-in-syria/
"Colonel General Anatoliy Sitnov, Deputy Minister of Defense for Armaments, also says that the T-90s reactive armor allowed the crew to survive. “The crew survived. It means that the reactive armor worked. Had the armor been penetrated, nobody would have survived inside,” Sitnov told Vzglyad."
Mega-Thanks Jay. You just saved me from spending time in researching this story.
I suppose if the tank rolled back out of there on it's own power that's not something that the FSA would have wanted anyone to see. Also, if the thing cooked off and or was captured I'm sure there would be plenty of footage of such actions plastered all over the internet...oh to see the rest of that footage.
Cheap missiles vs. expensive metal levels the playing field, one might say. Ships, vehicles, aircraft -- it's a whole new war world, with partisans taking on military forces and winning.
The tank survived and was more than likely recovered. I concur with Jay/the General. The damage was not catastrophic. It would have been with a 54/55M, 62, or 72A; there was no cook off or "flying frying pan". I could see that the Shtora was active. They'll find out what went "wrong" and fix it.
I wonder why we don't see videos of T-90s taking out head choppers....
http://defense-update.com/products/s/shtora-1.htm
The mantra of cheap missiles taking out expensive tanks sounds cute but as a Canadian vet told me "We had Gustavs and TOWs, but a tank is a tank is a tank."
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