How American Tanks are being Destroyed in Ukraine

This is the M1 A2 Abrams, the US Army's main battle tank and one of the most advanced armored vehicles in the world. It's armed with a cannon over 5 m long that can punch through nearly a meter of steel from 2 km away. Depleted uranium plates protect its turret and hull. The latest upgrades added an additional anti-mine under plate, reactive armor tiles over the flanks, and a trophy active protection system on top. But this raises the Abrams fully loaded combat weight to 78 tons. That's as much as a Boeing 737 on takeoff or 20 Ford F-450s stacked on top of each other. Yet here it is racing down dirt roads at highway speeds, jumping and firing midair, waiting through meter deep mud and drifting like it's a Toyota AE86. But out of the 31 Abram tanks delivered to Ukraine, 27 have been lost. And except for a single case of a direct hit from a Russian T72B3, every other loss has been from drone attacks, anti-tank missiles, artillery, and anti-tank mines. We examine why and how the M1 Abrams became outdated. From failed NATO development projects to inefficient military doctrine in this 20 minute long documentary on the Real Engineering YouTube