Ukraine tried to create their own wunderwaffe thinking that this was the key to destroying the Russian army along with all the other tactics and weapons they got for NATO. Which ended up not working since NATO didn’t expect the way this war is being fought in the same way as in Iraq. So now Ukraine lost all this modern weaponry to some drone with a grenade attached to it.

The Russian army has uncovered one of their death machines that was abandoned in nature since 2016.

RT

A heavy armored fighting vehicle that was supposed to be a revolutionary innovation of the Ukrainian military has been found by Russian troops broken down and buried, according to a video made public on Friday.

Engineers sympathetic to the neo-Nazi Azov regiment created the ‘Azovets’ (Azovite) in 2015 by converting a Soviet-era T-64 tank.

Instead of a main gun in a single turret, the Azovets was fitted with two autonomous turrets, each armed with twin 23mm guns and a machine gun, as well as anti-tank guided missile launchers.

Advertised as a breakthrough in urban armored design, the $5 million vehicle did not make it into serial production. It vanished from the factory in October 2016 and was never seen on the battlefield.

This was the super vehicle that Ukrainians really believed would change everything. They would no longer be humiliated and destroy the Russians once and for all with this thing.

This vehicle suffered the exact same problems Germans had when making their super heavy tanks. From the weight being way to heavy and not having a basic design that every other country follows when designing their own fighting vehicles.

According to Russian soldiers who spoke to Sputnik, that was in part because the vehicle was unfit for combat duty. Far too heavy for its engine, at 41 tons, the Azovets was encased in 500 bricks of reactive armor. Moreover, it had no thermal sights and its armament was underwhelming.

The two turrets were independently operated and had no command override. The crew did not have conventional sights, relying instead on cameras. The designers used commercially produced Chinese doorbell cameras for the vehicle, triggering a corruption probe once the Ukrainian authorities found out.

In October 2016, unidentified men broke into the manufacturing facility and stole the only prototype of the Azovets. It was eventually discovered under a pile of dirt at the Azov regiment’s base in Urzuf, a town between Mariupol and Berdyansk. 

One of the reasons the Azovets was never deployed appears to be that its engine and gearbox had been wrecked during the heist. Instead, the neo-Nazi unit simply buried it. Local residents came forth with its location after Russian troops arrived.

I can’t wait until the war is over and Russia just parades this and the other shit Azov invented to “turn the tide.”

They can’t even win with state of the arc NATO technology.

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