Pretty bold to charge a t-90 with a bradley. It looked like they were moving laterally a lot to keep obscuring the hull behind cover and making tracking them difficult. I wonder if they were confident their optics were better or something so that they knew they could keep acquiring the target faster than the t-90 could . I also wonder if they knew the t-90 was in some way damaged and unable to fight back effectively.
Still, seems like a pretty quick way to die.
Watching the video, it really looks like the T-90 crew had zero clue what was going on. Wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even know how many vehicles they were being attacked by. Panic, poor training, and the potential for pvt conscriptovich to have sold critical things off for vodka will do a lot to turn a battle against you.
I think panic. They were taking very accurate fire, and I can only imagine it’s fucking loud when a bushmaster auto cannon is rapidly hitting your tank, even if not penetrating. If even few of the rounds were causing real damage, I could see that relentless barrage jarring almost any crew
Wouldn’t a barrage of non penetrating explosive shells still work well to destroy sensors, cameras and the like?
Absolutely.
i’m guessing that first 25mm shots landed on t-90m’s sensors, and bradleys possibly had radio contact with drone operator, or maybe even live video feed
Definitely moving into an era where armor is near useless if your enemy has effective antitank weapons and there isn’t extremely tight integration between unmanned surveillance vehicles and your armor. I suppose someone could have shot the UAV down here, but if the IFV doesn’t let the pressure up you can’t exactly sit there and gaze around in the sky looking for a tiny little robot while a 25mm autocannon on treads hunts you.
Not trying to extrapolate too much here, the tank was by itself and likely had a panicked, poorly trained crew but still just imagining the commander in the bradley being able to watch where the tank turret is pointed in real-time and peak only when it wasn’t looking the right direction definitely seems like an utterly decisive advantage (if they were able to do this), especially in an environment that isn’t a full scale battle with so much chaos that the UAV would be destroyed or the information useless. Heck in this situation if the tank started to raise its turret to hit the drone with its coaxial, and the drone is in close contact with the Bradley than that is just a perfect opportunity for the Bradley to attack right?
I know people say the death of the main battle tank is greatly exaggerated but I think the role of the tank will vastly shift towards emphasizing integration with UAVs like this over most other factors. I know missiles aren’t the same thing as cannons but I don’t understand why an APC with a complement of javelin type missiles couldn’t just sit behind cover and annihilate direct fire armor vehicles with a suite of drones providing targeting. It wouldn’t work at great ranges but for a situation like this a cannon kind of seems a pretty inefficient weapon.
