Post by bisal42 on Feb 17, 2024 5:37:20 GMT
The tank is not dead, despite what Elon Musk has said (not that any war scholar should care). So far, no alternative category of weapon systems can provide similar levels of mobility, firepower and protection – the historic triad of warfare. This despite the colossal costs and logistical nightmares of tank warfare. In Ukraine, tanks and other armored vehicles have been critical in all four phases of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war of aggression. They are likely to remain so in the coming stages. But this war will have to end eventually. Will western tanks contribute to speeding up the end? In February 2022, Russian armored formations broke through Ukrainian defenses in a number of areas, due in part to their sheer mass and sustained firepower.
By April – the end Spain Phone Number List of the first phase of this war – Ukraine had liberated four northern provinces (Zhytomyr, Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy), as well as parts of occupied Kharkiv. The "coalition of NLAWs and spears" that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed during his emotional speech in Westminster Hall was partly responsible. Read also: Secret meetings with Rama, McGonigal is sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison Kim Jong Un's provocations raise suspicions that he is plotting war The tanks were critical to Ukraine's defense-in-depth strategy. The 1st Tank Brigade (known as the Severia Brigade in Ukraine) heroically resisted the Russian armored units while being outnumbered 10 to one.
The Severia Brigade not only repulsed the attempted invasion of the city of Chernihiv, but also undermined the Russian advance towards Kiev from the north-east vector. Ukrainian resistance in the northeast rendered Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army bordering on combat ineffectiveness and degraded the threats posed by Russia's Western Military District to smaller NATO countries in Eastern Europe. The damage to Putin's forces in the battles of Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv provinces was caused – in part – by the Ukrainian-improved Soviet-era T-64B and T-64BM Bulat battle tanks, which, while effective, are still inferior. to western tanks. Sudden counterattacks The second phase of the war in the summer of 2022 was dominated by artillery duels in the Donbas and relatively limited maneuvers and armored warfare.
By April – the end Spain Phone Number List of the first phase of this war – Ukraine had liberated four northern provinces (Zhytomyr, Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy), as well as parts of occupied Kharkiv. The "coalition of NLAWs and spears" that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed during his emotional speech in Westminster Hall was partly responsible. Read also: Secret meetings with Rama, McGonigal is sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison Kim Jong Un's provocations raise suspicions that he is plotting war The tanks were critical to Ukraine's defense-in-depth strategy. The 1st Tank Brigade (known as the Severia Brigade in Ukraine) heroically resisted the Russian armored units while being outnumbered 10 to one.
The Severia Brigade not only repulsed the attempted invasion of the city of Chernihiv, but also undermined the Russian advance towards Kiev from the north-east vector. Ukrainian resistance in the northeast rendered Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army bordering on combat ineffectiveness and degraded the threats posed by Russia's Western Military District to smaller NATO countries in Eastern Europe. The damage to Putin's forces in the battles of Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv provinces was caused – in part – by the Ukrainian-improved Soviet-era T-64B and T-64BM Bulat battle tanks, which, while effective, are still inferior. to western tanks. Sudden counterattacks The second phase of the war in the summer of 2022 was dominated by artillery duels in the Donbas and relatively limited maneuvers and armored warfare.