"Welcome to the captured American military equipment museum. To your left is the Coffin on Wheels, and behind it is the Bloated Budget APC That Only Carries Four Six Soldiers. If you continue into the next room, we have the Plane That Doesn't Fly in the Rain..."
I was at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing recently and they had a Taiwanese U2 that the PLA shot down as the centerpiece exhibit of one of the floors.
Say what you will about American gear, but it makes great war trophies.
But have you considered these are GLORIOUS ÜBERME- I mean epic democracy defending trucks, in the grubby hands of yucky asiatic hor- I mean totalitarians?! Checkmate, commie!
Or maybe they have, and that is why they're getting rotated to the rear - the drones are just an excuse. Getting rotated because of a verified and proven (with video proof) threat of a new(ish) weapon system is still not as embarrassing as getting rotated out because the tank is just shit and broke down. At least in my mind, seeing the wank around nazi tanks may prove me wrong
Imagine spending 40+ years hunting Western spies and running counters against the world's most developed and psychotic empire. The man's been training his whole life for this and he's been selecting and training his entire power structure using the same background
They had open air museums of captured equipment with little stands with descriptions in Donbas mere days after taking a town back like a month into the war. I remember there was a video showing it off and everything. This is not shocking