Thread by @noclador

Marder, Bradley, AMX-10RCR - a short thread:

Germany is gonna give Ukraine Marder 1A3, which are 1990s tech, as stingy Merkel upgraded way too few Marder to 1A5 or 1A5A1 standard.

And something I dislike about the Marder is that the vehicle commander has to

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get out of the turret to fire the Milan anti-tank Guided missile...

But the Marder 1A3 is a very useful system, because it has better optics and comms than most infantry fighting vehicles Ukraine has now and so the Marders are gonna kill lots and lots of russian infantry.

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The Ukrainians will most likely get M2A2 ODS Bradleys, which aren't the most modern variants, but even the M2A2 ODS is already a league above the Marder, thanks to better optics, bigger caliber gun, and much more powerful TOW anti-tank guided missiles.

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The Bradleys will destroy all russian armor they encounter.

France will likely deliver uparmored AMX-10RCR, which are excellent fire support/ambush/reconnaissance vehicles and ideal to take out the small concrete "bunkers" russia has been placing all over the front.

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Bradley, Marder, AMX-10RC were designed during the Cold War to destroy soviet armor... already back then they were better than anything the soviets had. Since then all three became even deadlier... while russian armor is still the same crap it was in the 1970s.

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I think the news that putin will do another mobilization is what broke the dam. Next we will see Italy send Centauro, Sweden send CV-90, the UK send Challenger 2... and then Leopards and Abrams.

It took almost a year, but finally Ukraine gets most of the tools needed to win.
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