07 March 2024

Compilation of 🇺🇦 Ukrainian ‘tractors’ (Western MBTs) destroyed by Russians

After fact-checking an AP FACT-CHECK, I can reliably conclude that the allegedly indestructible main battle tanks such as M1 Abrams, Challenger 2 and Leopard from NATO did indeed burn, just like how Russian president Vladimir Putin said they would!

Still image from video

Video compilation of Western tanks by Russians

This video also includes the destruction of two to three US-made Patriot SAM launchers and one HIMARS SSM battery.

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Video transcript (Updated)

Destruction of M1 Abrams (USA) tractors

  • 26 February 2024: An American M1 Abrams tank burns in the Ukrainian battlefield, exactly as the Russians promised.
  • After the first Western MBTs were destroyed, Associated Press (AP) could not believe the video footage released by Russian military. AP insisted that what was hit was a Ukrainian tractor!
  • 3 March 2024: A second M1 Abrams tractor got destroyed near Avdeevka.
  • A mine-clearing ABV (Assault Breacher Vehicle, based on the M1 platform) was also destroyed by the Russians.
  • All advanced technologies and the depleted uranium (DU) armor had been removed from the tractors.
  • However, the special Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) put in place of the DU armour failed to protect the tractors.
  • A Russian (Donbass) official said the M1 Abrams tank was an ‘empty tin can with a cannon’.
  • When a new Western MBT is inducted into the battlefield in Ukriane, US military publicity teams reveal their location as they play-act imaginary encounters with Russian troops and upload the video footage to Social Media. Russians then quickly the find the tractors and destroy them using cheap drones, anti-tank missiles and tank rounds.
  • 6 March 2024: Another M1 Abrams tank was defeated by a couple of rounds from a refurbished T-72 tank of Soviet vintage.
  • Western commentators used to mock Russia for deploying such old tanks against modern Western main battle tractors (MBTs).
  • Tank crews on both sides leave the turret door open. They are also addicted to their smartphones, which incessantly broadcast their location. This is why it is now easy to destroy tanks in the battlefield.
  • The thermal video footage of the T-72 hit on the M1 Abrams was confirmed in the morning.
  • 11 March 2024: A fourth M1 Abrams tractor was stopped by a mine.
  • This fourth tractor was then left smouldering by Russian artillery fire.
  • 28 March 2024: The fifth M1 Abrams tractor, while on an outing near the village of Berdychi, was bumped off by a cheap drone.
  • 30 March 2024: Evasive trajectory maneuvers undertaken by a Russian drone before it hit an M1 Abrams tank.
  • 7 May 2024: A seventh M1 Abrams tractor was struck by a cheap drone. Note the open turret hatch. Three other M1 Abrams tractors are reportedly off the battlefield for repairs due to such attacks. Thus, almost ⅓ of the 31 tanks have been taken out of service.
Destruction of Challenger2 (UK) tractors
  • 6 September 2023: A Challenger 2 tractor was destroyed by the Russians.
  • British press used to claim this tractor was undefeatable but it was destroyed by a Kornet man-portable anti-tank missile.
  • 9 September 2023: A second ‘undefeatable’ Challenger 2 tractor had burned.
  • @Uk_Tractor2's stuck-in-the-mud challenge: All Western MBTs are so overweight (above 60 tonnes) they get stuck in the mud easily, as seen in this publicity stunt.
  • The Russians know this ground well (from the times of Hitler and Napoleon). That is why they wisely withdrew to the other side of the Dneiper river before the winter.
Destruction of Leopard (Germany) tractors (too many to count)
  • The efficient Germans, under the benevolent tutelage of the Americans, could never get the minimum required number of Leopard tractors in working condition. How could Ukrainian maintenance crews do better?
  • In Russian tanks, the ammunition is stored internally so the tanks have a lower profile and can be easily hidden.
  • Western MBTs are monster tanks, move slowly and consume a lot of fuel. They are easily spotted on flat ground, as in Ukraine.
  • In this quixotic battle, multiple Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Leopard tractors were obliterated.
  • Western MBTs break down easily and cannot be repaired on the field. They are heavily dependent on logistics that the Ukrainians do not have. M1 Abrams prefers jet fuel for its turbine engine and cannot handle dust.
  • On the advice of Western military ‘experts’, Ukrainian tank crews tried to plow through Russian minefields without infantry or air support.
  • Western countries are callously getting rid of their old weapons so they can order new ones now using money to be paid back by Ukraine in future.
  • A Russian soldier poses in front of a seemingly intact Leopard tractor that its Ukrainian crew had abandoned in the battlefield.
Bonus destruction of HIMARS SSM (USA)
  • These battlefield losses are not a problem for Western arms manufacturers. They are usually rewarded with new R&D and production contracts.
  • Our nations cannot be at peace because the globalist kleptocracy prefers endless wars.
Bonus destruction of Patriot SAM (USA)
  • The Russians thought this was a convoy of S300 complex. Later analysis of the explosions suggested it was a German-supplied US-made Patriot battery including three launchers and presumably Western troops who operated it.
Bonus defusion of SCALP (UK) washing machine
  • A Russian disarms an UFO that was forced down by EW countermeasures. The US media used to claim that Iranian drones were powered by lawnmower motors so this is obviously a British-made StormShadow washing-machine.
Damaged M1 Abrams tractor hauled to Moscow

A ‘game-changer’ M1 Abrams tractor gets towed without its wheels and tracks towards Moscow for a weapons exhibition. This is the ultimate humiliation for Western arms manufacturers.

Ballyhooed Western military hardware stand in ignominy at Moscow Patriot Park

In Moscow, captured weapons from several NATO countries are on display for the public. Prominent Western MBTs, described by embedded journalists as indestructible and game-changers, sit mutely in the park.

Video references

My compilation includes segments from:

AP fact-check

Western activist hacks who masquerade as journalists drank so much of their government's kool-aid that they could not believe their eyes when Russia posted videos of a destroyed Western main battle tank.

Screenshot of AP news report

Russia claims it blew up advanced Ukrainian tank, but video shows its helicopter attacked a tractor

Russia claimed it had "annihilated" eight tanks that NATO countries provided to Ukraine. But a visual analysis by The Associated Press shows a grainy black-and-white video Russia released to prove it had blown up the German-made Leopard tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor.

Notes and Updates
  • This blog post and the video will be updated as and when new tractors are destroyed.
  • I found a latter-day ZeroHedge article that uses language similar to mine.
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