Ukraine’s ‘Monkey Model’ Abrams ‘Has a Lot of Weak Points’

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Monday that a second Ukrainian M1 Abrams had been destroyed in fighting with Russian forces, with footage circulating online showing an M1 smoldering near an M1150 assault breacher outside the Donetsk suburb of Avdeyevka.

The first Abrams was confirmed destroyed on February 26, also in the vicinity of Avdeyevka – which Ukrainian forces had built up into a major fortress against Donbass militias and the regular Russian army over the course of almost a decade, and which Russian forces finally managed to smash through after months of brutal fighting last month.

Both of the Abrams destroyed to date were eliminated by Russian FPV drones – the first by a UAV known as Piranha, the second by a drone called the Upyr (lit. ‘Vampire’ or ‘Ghoul’).