Russia’s FPV-Stopping Arena System For Tanks Gets Combat Debut
The system reportedly shot down seven FPV drones in succession, but analysts say it still cannot make Russian tanks invulnerable.
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Russia also deployed T-72B3A tanks during its summer attempt to break through to Dobropillya. It equipped them with the improved Arena M active protection system. It is supposed to be able to destroy incoming vehicles, including drones, with kinetic weapons. However, it is not perfect protection. The Ukrainians destroyed one, but they only used more drones. The Russians did not take Dobropillya.
Russia’s tank shield shot down seven drones—Ukraine destroyed the tank anyway
Russia wants its tanks moving again after two years of Ukrainian drones freezing its armored assaults, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported. Its main bet is a tank-mounted system that fires interceptors at incoming drones. The system worked on at least one tank, but Russia lost it anyway. Since 2022, cheap Ukrainian FPV drones have turned the open approach to any position into ground where armor rarely survives, forcing Russia into …
Ukrainian media are keeping spirits up with reports of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory. On their own soil, in the Donbas, the situation is far less rosy.
At the turn of July and August 2026, the Russians first used T-72B3A tanks equipped with Arena-M active protection systems in combat. Initial reports regarding their effectiveness against FPV drones were contradictory, but today we know a little more about them.
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