Comments by "Retrosicotte" (@Retrosicotte) on "'Putin's vulture' helicopter increasing threat to Ukrainian tanks" video.

@nohandler1493 Not really, Russia is desperately running out of good armour, the difference is America is actually competant.
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The problem is attack helos outrange SHORAD. Most AA thats mobile tops out about 8-9km in range, but air launched ATGMs are 12+km. Thats why it's so difficult to counter them unless you get lucky. It's a hard problem, but thankfully Russia wasted 30% of their fleet early on so it's not a problem as big as it could have been.
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SVENUNGLAUBE I genuinely wonder sometimes about the thought process of people who type like this.
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@nohandler1493 Except there is plenty of proof. Oryx tracked visual losses so we know how much they've lost at a MINIMUM. And it is exceeding 65% of their pre-war tank fleet. Russia is desperately scrounging old obsolete tanks by now for example. The BMP-2 fleet is 30% gone. The Ka-52 fleet is 30% gone. The T-80 has actually lose more than it even started with, putting it squarely into relying on rusting refurbs. Lancet is pretty overhyped anyway, given most of its kills are on soft targets that any artillery can kill. Its rate of kill is substantially slower to achieve, and its worth against fortified targets is awful. (It hit a light Stormer CVRT directly and failed to kill it for example, its warhead is tiny.)
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Because Russia was attacking then. Ka-52s are much more vulnerable in the attack than they are on the defence. Which is why they got so badly hurt then.
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