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 WATCH Ukrainian Challenger 2 tank hit by Russian drone (VIDEO)
The British-supplied armor was reportedly operating in Russia’s Kursk Region when it was targeted by a fiber optics UAV
A British-supplied Challenger 2 main battle tank operated by Ukraine’s army has been hit by a Russian fiber optics-guided drone, a new video that has surfaced online purports to show. The unverified footage was reportedly taken in Kursk Region.
Footage shows a lone Challenger 2 driving in an open field along a road while observed by the FPV drone. The tank lacks any anti-drone defenses apart from multiple electronic jammers on its turrets; effective against radio-controlled drones but useless against cable-guided UAVs.
The drone dives into the rear of the tank’s turret, where its ammo stock is kept. The extent of damage sustained by the tank was not immediately clear, however.
Fiber optic-guided drones have seen increasing use over the past few months. The UAVs, which are immune to jamming but are somewhat less agile and bulkier than their radio-controlled counterparts, were first deployed en masse onto the battlefield by the Russian military last August amid efforts to contain the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk Region.
Since then, the use of cable-guided drones has spread, with their use reported by both sides in multiple cases along the conflict frontline.
The UK has supplied a total of 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Kiev, according to official data. The tanks however have rarely seen action, and the Ukrainian military appeared to primarily use them to film propaganda rather than for actual warfare.
The situation changed with the invasion of Kursk, into which the Ukrainian military poured most of its available reserves, including the Challenger 2 tanks. Up to a half of the UK-supplied tanks have been reportedly destroyed in combat, with some of the kills corroborated online. |
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wow Leeds for Palestinians.
Well done Tonybliar
UK: Activists held a rally throughout the streets of Leeds in the UK in support of the Palestinian people
Who let them all in? |
Really - cricket has lift off?
Yorkshire have become the first team to agree to sell their entire stake in a Hundred team.
The Sun Group, owners of Indian Premier League side Sunrisers Hyderabad, have paid just over £100m for a 100% stake in Northern Superchargers, who are based at Yorkshire's home Headingley.
Superchargers are the sixth team to secure the investment, with the Sun Group the first to take full ownership of a franchise.
Cant think of a worst investment -cricket here aint out but smash and grab
Worst = LLOY |
Maybe the voice coach is teaching him how to sing.
Britain's got talent here we come. |
Keir need only raise an eyebrow and the police will retreat quicker than a Victoria Starmer semi-on. Proper policing doesn't exist anymore. |
Starmer reported to the police over the voice coaching visit during the restrictive period of movement during covid! Perhaps this time they won't buckle and find him guilty of a criminal offence! |
arja, not being a Bernie Sanders devotee myself, I don't know what the word according to him is! He is however the high priest of workerism and has the whole mindless democratic party following staunchly! He points out all the failings of American society without offering any viable leadership! All American billionaires were once-upon-a-time, just geeks in garages, twiddling with mum's worn-out white goods, trying to make 'em work better by redesigning, or simply making them redundant with outlandish ideas to eliminate the blood, sweat and tear chores of everyday living! Had Rev Sanders been their mentor, they'd still be rounding up the wagons, loading muskets and curing pelts to sell to the Indians! |
Clacton will be top priority. |
The sooner we get Trump on a state visit the better, ideas for Blackpool, Rhyl & Grimsby pls Donald. |
USAID evolves into criminal network operating in over 100 countries — Duma speaker
As Vyacheslav Volodin argued, the agency has played a role in preparing coups worldwide, and its so-called "democracy promotion" programs have harmed Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, and a number of other countries
MOSCOW, February 5. /TASS/. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has turned into a criminal network operating in more than 100 countries and managing an annual budget of $50 billion to $60 billion, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.
"In line with its charter, USAID should support the economy, healthcare, and education as well as offer humanitarian responses. In fact, the agency has become a criminal network that operates in more than 100 countries and controls an annual budget of $50 billion to $60 billion," the senior Russian legislator wrote on his Telegram channel.
"Today, the USAID headquarters in Washington has shut down, and USAID is about to be dismantled. Now it is important that those guilty of its crimes be punished and that there is no recurrence of this," he emphasized.
Among other things, the agency has played a role in preparing coups worldwide, and its so-called "democracy promotion" programs have harmed Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, and a number of other countries, Volodin argued. In the past decade, USAID has spent more than $2 billion on former Soviet republics, of which "52% was allocated to Ukraine," he revealed.
Also, USAID took part in funding research on biological weapons. A Duma-led parliamentary probe into the Pentagon’s projects to set up and run biolabs in Ukraine three years ago revealed that "the United States and personally [former US President Joe] Biden and his son [Hunter] are behind projects to develop and distribute weapons of mass destruction globally," Volodin recalled. According to him, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and Biden have turned Ukrainian citizens into test subjects. |
i took out a subscription to MF. saw they had tipped jupiter at 150p. cancelled the subscription and got my money back |
arja do us all a favour and go swim with the sharks |
gotnorloex,
name something Sanders said which is not true or does not make sense ! I bet you can not or do you think the USA billionaires get poorer each year ? So very sad :) |
but you are the prince of clowns Min Pong :) |
Only just realised carful ?? we have been banging on about deluded fixated nutters for years!!! |
youve only just found out careful
clown |
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