Palate Cleanser – A Couple of Russian Tanks Being Done in by NLAW(UK) Or Javelin (US) Anti-tank Weapons

For around $40,000, a Saab built NLAW does a pretty good job on a convoy of unsuspecting Russian armored tanks:

#UPDATE: Ukrainian ambush on Russian armored convoy, NLAW destroyed a Russian T-72 tank. #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar

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— Conflicts Worldwide (@ConflictsWW) March 11, 2022

And then one of a US Javelin taking out another one.  When the smoke starts to clear, you can just watch that long, multi-ton barrel just flop onto the ground:

#Ukraine A javelin missile shot at a Russian tank, destroyed it.pic.twitter.com/Myc3TItB8G

— Anne Lionhart (@lionhea02905378) March 5, 2022

Cost of a Javelin is quite a bit more but with a lot more capabilities built-in:

In 2002, a single Javelin command launch unit cost $126,000, and each missile cost around $78,000 (equivalent to $111,000 in 2019). This is reinforced by the US Army’s Fiscal Year 2018 unit cost for the Javelin weapon system, which put the unit cost at $206,705.

The cost of a rather basic T-27 Russian tank is around $2,000,000 per vehicle.

So, how is that working for Russia?  That’s a war of attrition that most insurgencies would like to have over and over and over again.