Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Crazy Video From Syria Shows An Armored Personnel Carrier Brawling With A T-72 Tank


Warzone/The Drive: Crazy Video Out Of Syria Shows An Armored Personnel Carrier Brawling With A T-72 Tank

The armored personnel carrier eventually rams the tank and then appears to chase it away. It's almost like a scene out of National Geographic!

Video emerged this past weekend that shows Turkish-backed Syrian forces in a tracked armored personnel carrier jousting with and then ramming a T-72 tank belonging to forces aligned with Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad. This incident occurred in Syria's northwestern Idlib province and came just a day after an equally unusual road-rage incident between U.S. and Russian forces on the other side of the country.

The video clip of the two armored vehicles, shot from a drone flying above, first emerged on social media on Feb. 22, 2020, but the actual altercation reportedly took place two days earlier. Observers of the Syrian conflict subsequently determined that the two vehicles had squared off in a field to the west of the town of Nerab in Idlib province. The vehicle that anti-regime forces are driving in this particular incident appears to be a Turkish-made ACV-15, a derivative of the U.S. Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle (AIFV), a 1970s design based on the venerable M113 armored personnel carrier.

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WNU Editor: The tank made the decision to run.
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4 comments:

  1. Andrew JacksonFebruary 25, 2020 at 9:26 AM

    The counter attack is coming!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2020 at 10:42 AM

    Warzone analysis said it might have been a failed VBIED attack.

    It was still a plus for the jihadis. They showed their dedication and counted coup.

    Maybe it was a plus for the Syrians. They acted stupidly, survived and maybe got wiser.

    Tank stayed on the road, when other country was suitable. If you know where it is going to be, you could just double stack tank mines and flip it.

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  3. fazmanFebruary 25, 2020 at 2:18 PM

    Obviously that T72 had trouble with it's armament or was dry.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2020 at 4:03 PM

    Fazman,

    Looked like the AFV got in under its gun. You would think that it could have got off one shot. You may be right.

    But, if they were out of ammo for their main armament, why were they not heading back to lines for resupply?

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