FLIR footage taken from the gun tape of a Russian Ka-52 conducting combat flight operations in the Zaporizhia region shows the destruction of two damaged and abandoned Ukrainian tanks that were disabled by previous artillery strikes.

From this footage alone, it's hard to exactly identify the armor. Both appear to be Ukrainian T-72s, but the footage at the beginning appears to show that both tanks have already had their turrets popped by an unrecorded explosion. It is entirely possible that the source posted the aftermath of the Vikhrs strike on the armor before the video from the Ka-52's attack run, but not enough context was released by the source.

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