I would suggest you do not get your military information from Forbes as they have NO IDEA of what they are talking about.
These guns are babies next to the Maxim machine guns that Ukraine made use of!
And how fitting to have an anti tank gun as old as the T55 tanks that have been seen scooting around the russian side.
Seen this month in the arsenal of the front-line 67th Mechanized Brigade: a unit engineered from a D-44 anti-tank gun affixed to a vintage MT-LB armored tractor.^1
>The 67th lately has been fighting a defensive action west of Kreminna in northeastern Ukraine, staving off an attempt by the Russian army to spoil Ukraine’s two-month-old counteroffensive.
>[To] block the Russians’ countercounteroffensive, the Ukrainians have [also] deployed some of the newest and best-equipped brigades to the Kreminna sector: the 21st Mechanized Brigade with its Swedish-made combat vehicles; the 44th Mechanized Brigade with ex-Polish vehicles, mostly.
The 85-millimeter D-44s date back to a Soviet Union initiative in 1944, to develop an anti-tank-gun capable of piercing German tanks.^1
^1 David Axe (2023, August 5). *Ukraine’s latest tank-destroyer is a 79-year-old gun bolted to a 50-year-old tractor*. Forbes.
I want one.
the gun can pierce through about 12 inches of armor. It’s probably pretty effective against anything the moscowites have.
If Ukraine had 1,000 more of these and 100 million rounds it would be a game changer.
I think Russia does which is why you could begin see more of these in the battlefield.
There’s so much we have learned from this war. Such as artillery being the king of kings in war.
I’d rather have thousands of this in my own imaginary army than 100 Phw 2000’s. 10 km is good enough when you have volume.
Bob semple is coming!
So age wise, that’s like DeSantis giving Trump a piggyback ride.
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I would suggest you do not get your military information from Forbes as they have NO IDEA of what they are talking about.
These guns are babies next to the Maxim machine guns that Ukraine made use of!
And how fitting to have an anti tank gun as old as the T55 tanks that have been seen scooting around the russian side.
Seen this month in the arsenal of the front-line 67th Mechanized Brigade: a unit engineered from a D-44 anti-tank gun affixed to a vintage MT-LB armored tractor.^1
>The 67th lately has been fighting a defensive action west of Kreminna in northeastern Ukraine, staving off an attempt by the Russian army to spoil Ukraine’s two-month-old counteroffensive.
>[To] block the Russians’ countercounteroffensive, the Ukrainians have [also] deployed some of the newest and best-equipped brigades to the Kreminna sector: the 21st Mechanized Brigade with its Swedish-made combat vehicles; the 44th Mechanized Brigade with ex-Polish vehicles, mostly.
The 85-millimeter D-44s date back to a Soviet Union initiative in 1944, to develop an anti-tank-gun capable of piercing German tanks.^1
^1 David Axe (2023, August 5). *Ukraine’s latest tank-destroyer is a 79-year-old gun bolted to a 50-year-old tractor*. Forbes.
I want one.
the gun can pierce through about 12 inches of armor. It’s probably pretty effective against anything the moscowites have.
If Ukraine had 1,000 more of these and 100 million rounds it would be a game changer.
I think Russia does which is why you could begin see more of these in the battlefield.
There’s so much we have learned from this war. Such as artillery being the king of kings in war.
I’d rather have thousands of this in my own imaginary army than 100 Phw 2000’s. 10 km is good enough when you have volume.
Bob semple is coming!
So age wise, that’s like DeSantis giving Trump a piggyback ride.