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Actually no, it is very hard to return fire unless they are complete idiots or you have top of the line troops vs. idiots. Best way is to take cover / retreat out of kill zone and then re-engage. Which is what probably did happen seconds later, i.e. once tanks fired on the AT team and dismounts figured out where enemy is, they could counter fire. Most of the time in ambush (unless its brain dead Taliban or similar) you don't know where exactly the enemy is, so you better off moving back & out of kill zone. You don't engage what you cannot see.
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Even with more NLAWs they were close and Russian tanks immediately mopped the flow with them. Anything else was taken out by dismounted infantry.
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@1974greymalkin lol, they are no KIA, they just jumped out of the tank ;) Max wounded. good training, stay down.
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Notice rear tanks engage and destroy Ukrainian light infantry. Both sides suffer losses, but Ukrainian side suffers 3x as much, at least.
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Nah, even if tank fire did not take them out mobile infantry did.
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@HomieusErectus what do you suggest they do? APC could be next. They dismount and drop. Later with support fire they mop up Ukrainian unit. Ukrainians paid a lot of blood for that tank.
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@houstontexas9463 Nah, at that range I highly doubt to many went out alive. It was probably national guard / local militia. Tanks opened return fire with main guns and coaxial MGs. At that range they easily blocked escape route. Even if some managed to survive that Russians could simply drive around the other side ;) Main thing they did is a) destroy a tank b) slow Russian advance At a cost of a small armed unit. In case you don't see it, just imagine a square with roads all around. one side of the square is the road. All Russians need to do is drive around the back of the square to block any escape. If it was so easy to ambush troops and "run away" in this fashion US would have lost war in Iraq long time ago.
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