Russia continues to be a laughing stock as Ukraine Ends Artillery Shortage by Taking From Fleeing Russians
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Ukraine is no longer low on artillery ammo because Russia abandoned so much in recent retreats, report says
Ukraine is now well-supplied with artillery ammo taken from the Russian retreat, the WSJ reported.
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They just fled and left everything behind."
The US depleted its own reserves of some ammunition in supplying Ukraine, with levels of 155 mm ammunition becoming "uncomfortably low," as one unnamed defense official told the WSJ in late August.
As its soldiers recaptured huge swathes of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Russians dropped their guns and abandoned tanks.
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In the US Army, this is considered a very bad idea. We were trained to never use abandoned materiel or ammunition. Call it in, mark it, disable it if need be, and keep advancing, leaving it to support logistics guys to handle. Simple reason is that sabotaging stuff is really easy, and we don't want stuff killing us when we try to use it.
I know certain alphabet groups had a habit of doing exactly this. Saw a bunch of 40mm grenades once in the sandbox we were told to not use; evidently some glowies were going to plant them for ISIS to find and blow themselves up with.
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I wouldn't trust russian ammo even if it wasn't intentionally sabotaged.
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That's hilarious and genius
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