Projectile event in Ukraine on Mon 29th July 2024

Russian artillery obliterates another Abrams tank in the special operation zone   

Russian artillerymen of the Tsentr Battlegroup destroyed another US-made Abrams battle tank near Avdeyevka, the Russian defense ministry said. 

The vehicle was obliterated by a Krasnopol projectile, a laser-guided high-precision artillery shell fired from a Msta-S howitzer.

A crew of drone operators launched an Orlan-30 UAV to help with targeting.   “We've been hunting it for a while, and finally we found it. We found it because it was not fit for our roads, it got stuck in the mud - just sank,” the commander of an artillery unit under the call sign Vosmoy (lit. Eighth) said.  

He added that the Ukrainian crew was completely decimated.  

“They did not have time to react, they’ve been skidding left and right, [the Abrams tank] did not make it because these machines are not fit for these roads,” he concluded.