Thread by @TrentTelenko

This is a question worth addressing vis-a'-vis Russian Armor & convoy tactics in Ukraine.

This will be a compare & contrast thread 🧵which is more @The_Tech_Son & @Chieftain_armor lane than mine, but I'll try & muddle through by giving visual examples
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https://twitter.com/MackOQuinn1/status/1514958657221533700

,@The_Tech_Son gives a video example of a Ukrainian ambush of a Russian Armored column here as an example of "Russian Tankers doing it wrong."
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https://twitter.com/The_Tech_Son/status/1513754354355953670

And he follows it up here with a photograph of a Russian Armored column pulled over and makes a comment on what he isn't seeing
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https://twitter.com/The_Tech_Son/status/1513754360404185090

These sorts of threads by experts -- and tankies are experts -- lose the general audience for the use of terms of art people lack a framework to understand.

Now a set of Vietnam era visual aids to compare & explain counter ambush drills, the Herringbone formation & Russian
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...failure in Ukraine.

In the time from WW2 & the Vietnam war Western armored formations created a series of standard formations to keep good security in columns & drills in response to ambushes.
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This @The_Tech_Son example is very telling regards Russian Army lack of training.

We haven't seen Herringbone, Coil or basic convoy protection formations executed by Russian Armored forces in any condition or combat operation in Ukraine.

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https://twitter.com/The_Tech_Son/status/1513754367421202433

The reason I'm somewhat familiar with these terms is my Dad, Col. George Telenko AUSA (Ret.), West Point Class 1962, was a armor branch captain in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1970 Vietnam/Cambodia.

Studying Vietnam was a way for me to know my Dad better.

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