The powerful Russian T-90M tank had no chance in this duel. “I played computer games” [WIDEO]

Internet users rub their eyes in amazement, but the recording is not a fake. The American Bradley vehicle with a Ukrainian crew really eliminated the Russian T-90M tank from the fight, which the Russians themselves say is better than the famous Abrams.

Did computer games save their lives?

The recording shows the Ukrainians from the Bradley bombarding the Russian tank with an avalanche of bullets from a 25 mm Bushmaster automatic cannon. Meanwhile, it turned out that the crew did not have much experience, because it was the second joint mission of Serhij – a driving instructor in civilian life, and Oleksandr – a mechanic in civilian life – says They are both national heroes today. “At first we fired anti-tank ammunition, but then we encountered problems, but because I played computer games (probably War Thunder – ed.), I remembered everything. How to strike and where. I could stop him at all costs. I started shooting at his optics so that he could not escape, Serhiy said in a conversation with Ukrainian journalists.

In games such as War Thunder, in order to destroy a tank or other enemy vehicle, you need to be extremely precise, what counts in this case are the weak points of individual tank models. Serhiy knew that with a 25 mm gun he had no chance against such a “beast” as the T-90M, but he remembered from a computer game that firing at the enemy’s weak points, such as the optics or the junction between the turret and the armor, could save him and his companion. And as you can see, it worked. “The recording of the duel shows that this approach allowed the T-90M turret to be damaged so that it began to rotate uncontrollably,” explains geekweek.interia.pl.

Computer games help the military? “This is not surprising”

“The fight between the M2 Bradley and the T-90 and the subsequent statement by the Ukrainian gunner about using experience from the game may seem quite sensational. But in the world of professional use of war games, it is nothing extraordinary and does not raise any surprise,” writes Dr. Paweł Makowiec, assistant professor at the X platform Department of Territorial Defense of the Land Forces Academy. General Tadeusz Kościuszko in Wrocław.

The expert adds that the use of commercial war games has been “practiced in the armed forces for a long time on various scales and in various ways.” “It is a well-known fact that this type of solution was used during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, a famous example of which was the Gulf Strike,” he explains. According to him, it was similar in 1999, when the “Allied Force” game was used in the case of Kosovo.