Loading ...German crewed Leopard taken out
Operation Barbarossa II doesn’t appear to be going well, if true.
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A Russian reconnaissance team has destroyed a German-supplied Leopard tank of the Ukrainian military with a crew comprised of Bunderswehr soldiers in the Zaporozhye direction, the team lead with the moniker Legend told Sputnik on Saturday.
“When we curbed another offensive and ATGM-ed [destroyed with an anti-tank guided missile] the Leopard, we moved out to the burned vehicle hoping to seize the ‘tongue.’ Then we saw that the crew’s driver-mechanic was severely injured and the others were dead. Once he awoke, the mechanic started yelling ‘nicht schießen’ [“do not shoot” in German],” the head of the reconnaissance team said.
“The mechanic repeatedly stated that he was not a mercenary but a Bundeswehr serviceman, and that he and the rest of the crew were members of the same unit of the German army,” the Russian fighter said, adding that while receiving medical aid, the German soldier named his brigade and its dislocation site.
h/t Tao
NATO country(s) sending front line soldiers to Ukraine? If true, this is bad news. Very bad news.
No surprise really. The expertise for manning these tanks does not exist among the Ukrainians. I can recall a similar event from many decades ago when American F15’s owned by Israel went up against MIG29 fighters over the skies of Lebanon. It was 1979 and I witnessed a portion of the action from a Kibitze in Northern Israel without being aware of the significance at the time. It was the first such encounter of the two planes in a real dogfight. The Russians lost badly as the Israelis shot two MIGs out of the skies. The pilots who had ejected were all Russians. We learned later there was not a Syrian among them flying those fighters.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/stunning-first-kill-with-f-15/