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Ukraine pulls US Abrams tanks from battlefield amid Russian drone threat

kyivindependent.com AP: Ukraine pulls US Abrams tanks from battlefield amid Russian drone threat

According to senior U.S. military officials, Russian surveillance drones and hunter-killer drones have changed the situation on the ground substantially, increasing the vehicles' risk of detection.

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Tanks are going the way of the battleship
- They been that way since probably vietnam, but the MIC exists to transfer public funds to private executives, not to build effective armed forces.
- This is quite the turning point.
War becoming cheaper to wage as these machines become obsolete is good news for the Proletariat.
- Conversely - those FPVs and quads with thermals that drop grenades are a pretty bad news for the proletariat
  
  Soon it'll be drone vs drone, with the operators working at home chasing each other with FPV goggles.
Seriously, just a quiet quad copter with a fairly sensitive microphone can hear these things from miles away.

Turbine engines in tracked vehicles have a very distinctive sound.

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