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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Looking at this cynically, the more arms sales/supplies can flow fluidly into Ukraine, the less interest American leaders tied to the arms industry have in any quick resolution to the conflict. No doubt Ukraine legitimately needs the weapons, but it's a situation ripe for putting personal gain from corporate arms dealing ahead of peace.
When the current secretary of defense stepped into his role straight off the board of Raytheon, he committed to recuse himself from anything having to do with Raytheon. I wonder how that's going with all the javelins and other arms being sent to Ukraine.
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This is mostly controlled by Biden and he's has a pretty anti-war stance. I can't see him wanting to keep sending supplies to Ukraine longer term if the conflict ends in half a year or something. American companies would benefit and see a cut of the re-arming Ukrainian military contracts post war. The whole war is an ad campaign for Raytheon after all.
There's a huge risk of arms proliferation that I'm sure is being considered inside the Pentagon that'd likely cut off arms to Ukraine post conflict. We've already seen 10ish Javelins captured by Russian forces after all and far right groups like the Azov battalion would likely not give up their arms easily.
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Holy #### that tank is obliterated.
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Russian tanks (except the T-14) are death traps because of their design. Rounds for the main gun are stored directly in the crew compartment right under the autoloader in the turret. So if the tank is hit in the side near the tracks where there isn't ERA or the top turret hit triggers an ammo rack explosion the tank will just blow itself up from the inside out. Western tanks on the other hand have ammo in their own compartment with blow-out panels that are designed to vent the explosion away from the crew. There might be more than one vehicle in that mess tho.