From "The Analyst":
BRADLEY v. T-90: TRAINING v. IGNORANCE
A recent engagement outside Avdivka had what started as two Bradley’s - which are not by any means tanks, start to engage at ranges of around 200-300m, a Russian T-90 variant, one of the new ones with optical sites and reasonably good levels of equipment.
The first Bradley opened fire and clearly hit the turret with its 25mm armour piercing rounds, but was so low on ammunition it quickly withdrew.
The second Bradley, whose gunner was recently returned from training in Germany, and goes by the name of Serhay, realised they could rapid fire at the T-90 at this range and aimed at the optical and other sensors on the turret, quickly taking them out leaving the tank blind. Shocking detonations around the outside of the turret quickly follow.
Not letting up, the Bradley pushed on, relentlessly pummelling the T-90 with armour piercing shells, some of which clearly got through and caused a malfunction in the T-90’s turret that made it spin around continuously.
As discussed the other day, one of the big flaws in the T-90 is it’s appalling reverse speed of just 4kmph, and it couldn’t reverse out of its situation, the crew appears to panic as they are pretty much blind. Serhay realised that he could keep on at the tank, detonating its reactive armour. The tank went out of control, hit a tree and the crew ran off before a drone dropped a grenade in the turret and destroyed it. The commander is said to have been captured.
Russian telegram channels are fuming over the humiliation, and the poor training tank crews are given because of the perception they’re disposable.
There’s no doubt that the Bradley’s Bushmaster gun is an awesome weapon. The T-90 is no slouch when it’s manoeuvring and has range over its opposition. It’s also not designed for close combat - yet is often placed in such environments. The Bradley is fast, its crews are better trained and its weapons are clearly exponentially superior compared to many in this class.
Training though, makes that extra difference. Perhaps too, the knowledge you are defending from an invader makes you even more determined to succeed.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!