• Mikufan@ani.social
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    5 months ago

    Well, it depends on the doctrine. When you use a T tank with western doctrine (survivability>number) you have to prop them up massively. And then they become even harder to service and use than any western tank.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I thought the doctrine was “crunch all you want, we’ll make more”

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          5 months ago

          That was always the case, the Russians behave like they grow soldiers like potatoes.

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            They used similar tactics to everyone in WWII. The human wave thing was partly derived from the accounts of ex-Nazis who were sore losers, AskHistorians had an answer about it. I don’t know about Afghanistan, but that was a different kind of war.

            Now, yeah. And it’s going about as well as you’d expect.