Forget the Tank-Is-Dead Verdict: Ukraine Is Showing the World What Armor Must Become to Survive and Russia Doesn’t Like It
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As Zelensky begs for ‘more money, weapons,’ $10 Mn European tanks gather dust in Ukrainian forests?
Ukraine’s Western-supplied tanks are reportedly spending more time concealed or in reserve as Russian and Ukrainian drones reshape frontline warfare. Leopard tanks remain valuable, but crews now face tighter operating conditions, forcing Kyiv to adapt its armour units and retrain personnel for drone warfare.
Forget the Tank-Is-Dead Verdict: Ukraine Is Showing the World What Armor Must Become to Survive and Russia Doesn’t Like It
Ukraine spent years lobbying for Western tanks and ultimately succeeded in obtaining them, but with the proliferation of cheap attack drones, many of those tanks are now sitting largely unused behind the front lines. The dynamics of war have changed in just the last handful of years, largely driven by Ukraine’s burgeoning drone industry and asymmetric tactics that have allowed its military to face down a much greater power. M1E3 Abrams. National…
“The Western weapons that Ukraine once desperately wanted are now sitting idle, spinning cobwebs.” The New York Times reported on the 25th that most of the tanks Ukraine acquired with Western support during the early stages of the war between Russia and Ukraine have lost their usefulness and are abandoned in the woods. As the paradigm of the battlefield rapidly shifts to focus on advanced technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence (…
The Western tanks that Ukraine acquired from its partners as one of the key weapons in the fight against Russia are currently mostly idle, as cheaper drones have made using heavy armored vehicles in combat extremely risky.
Western tanks delivered to Kiev have virtually ceased to be used in combat because of their vulnerability to drones that have made them practically useless, report means. However, Ukraine continues to maintain them and train its soldiers to use them.
The Western tanks sent to Ukraine are largely held in reserve and hidden in the woods, after the drones have changed radically the way the battles take place on the front, reports The New York...
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