Tinfoil hat time: this is a PR move to preemptively counter the news of said tanks getting rekt. Media will be all “Well akschually these aren’t real Abrams, the real Abrams woulda deflected them missiles and loiters and shells riiiight back!”
yea when the news about sending tanks over came out the first thing I thought was that Russia is probably gonna love spamming pictures of destroyed abrams/leopard tanks all over their media lol
I also remember The New Atlas essentially saying that this whole thing was a bluff and really only a means of trying to scare Russia into settling for less out of fear that NATO would be totally committed with masses of equipment(and even possibly manpower). This has… really corroborated that theory.
Tinfoil hat time: this is a PR move to preemptively counter the news of said tanks getting rekt. Media will be all “Well akschually these aren’t real Abrams, the real Abrams woulda deflected them missiles and loiters and shells riiiight back!”
yea when the news about sending tanks over came out the first thing I thought was that Russia is probably gonna love spamming pictures of destroyed abrams/leopard tanks all over their media lol
Hunting tigers, leopards, and other big cats has long been a Russian specialty.
I also remember The New Atlas essentially saying that this whole thing was a bluff and really only a means of trying to scare Russia into settling for less out of fear that NATO would be totally committed with masses of equipment(and even possibly manpower). This has… really corroborated that theory.