Wrong, a Ukrainian farmer would call them "FUCKING hefty brute road blasters."neoplacebo wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 9:15 pmWell, I did admit to never having been in an army. I could have typed Strykers or Bradleys but just decided to call the Russian transports hefty brute road blasters. Besides, I figure that's what a Ukrainian farmer would call them.Vrede too wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 9:09 pmNot disagreeing with you, but some perhaps most of the destroyed armor was APCs.neoplacebo wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 9:00 pmHard to say. But it's no secret that warring armies tend to exaggerate their victories and minimize their defeats or mistakes. I just find it hard to believe that a thousand Russian soldiers died at this pontoon bridge. You can figure maybe a dozen or twenty at most in one of those hefty brute road blasters, only three or four in a tank. Even if Ukraine blasted hell out of the area around the place I doubt a thousand Russians would have died. I think the best thing would be to send Peter Navarro there on a fact finding mission.
"hefty brute road blasters"?
I should have known that a commander of hefty brute SEA LANE blasters would use that name for APCs.
Neither of these links answer our questions, but they offer more info:
This video shows Russian force destruction well away from the bridge:
Russian ‘tank graveyard’ after 52 vehicles blown up in one battle as Putin forced into retreat
It was supposedly all done by Ukrainian artillery.
This article states that it was two pontoon bridges:
https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-milita ... 00570.html
It sounds like a sizeable Russian force was allowed to cross one or both bridges before the bridge/s were destroyed and the invaders were trapped.
Different locale and date:
Russian tank explodes hurling turret 250ft into the air after Ukrainian missile strike
Wow, can you imagine capturing that on your dash cam?