• carrylex@lemmy.world
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    To quote from Wikipedia:

    As of 2013 there are 100 T-55s in reserve and less than 500 in storage, however those in storage may have been scrapped already.

    Conclusion: They don’t have shit

  • gex@lemmy.world
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    “You see, only 40,000 javelins have been built. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men until they ran out of ammo.”

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    This myth that mass-produced cheap and simple weapons always beats technological superiority needs to die.

    I’m pretty sure the Soviets had more helicopters than the Mujaheddin had Stinger Missiles. So they can’t loose right?

    • deft@lemmy.wtf
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      Will wins wars.

      The need to fight is stronger than the want to fight.

  • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.works
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    But nearly all of the 40k javelins that are left still work, unlike those thousands of T55s that’ve been picked over for parts/salvage/theft over the past couple decades while slowly rusting away in damp Russian tank depots.