{"id":142542,"date":"2023-06-11T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142542"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:36:38","slug":"russians-use-14m-chopper-to-kill-an-ag-sprayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142542","title":{"rendered":"Russians use $14M chopper – to kill an ag sprayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Russians announced a coup in their counter-offensive against Ukraine, claiming that one of their KA-52 attack choppers killed an Ukrainian Leopard tank with a direct hit from a missile. Only one small problem:<\/p>\n

The Russian Embassy in Washington announced Monday on Twitter its forces had \u201cannihilated\u201d eight German-made Leopard tanks, among the most advanced and powerful weapons NATO countries have provided to Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AP via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

Only one small detail prevents this from being a real headliner: analysis of the imagery provided shows that the target they blew up had four large wheels and sat high off the ground.<\/p>\n

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High off the ground…nope. Large wheels…. nope to that too.<\/p>\n

Some speculate they actually meant Ivan destroyed a French-made\u00a0 AMX-10.<\/p>\n

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Well, at least it has wheels… six of them. Nope again.<\/p>\n

Valentin Ch\u00e2telet, a research associate at The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, also said the objects in the video were clearly not Leopard tanks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are pointing their thermal camera at three vehicles that appear to be harvesters,\u201d said Ch\u00e2telet, who is based in Brussels. \u201cAnd the first target they\u2019re hitting is most likely a sprayer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AP via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember having to dodge the leakage from German “honey wagons” when bicycling Bavarian back roads. Guess we could dismiss this claim as just another “shitty” job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Russians announced a coup in their counter-offensive against Ukraine, claiming that one of their KA-52 attack choppers killed an Ukrainian Leopard tank with a direct hit from a missile. Only one small problem: The Russian Embassy in Washington announced Monday on Twitter its forces had \u201cannihilated\u201d eight German-made Leopard tanks, among the most advanced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-B54","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}