![]() Milley said in mid-June that the international community had provided Ukraine with 97,000 various anti-tank weapons.Īccording to Milley, this is “more antitank systems than there are tanks in the world.” A destroyed Russian T-72B3 tank pictured in Mariupol on Ma(Maximilian Clarke) and employed by highly-mobile Ukrainian units to ambush Russian convoys, has dramatically challenged the tank’s decisive role, however. The ubiquity of relatively inexpensive and handy anti-tank weapons, such as the now-legendary NLAWs, provided to Ukraine by the U.K. Meanwhile, Russian forces still rely on tanks as a principal means of concentrated fire support, even during urban warfare. Due to a lack of field artillery, many Ukrainian crews practice indirect fire on targets out of the tank’s line of sight, howitzer-style. Main battle tanks continue to serve their typical role: supporting the infantry, spearheading assaults, and exploiting breakthroughs, with mechanized infantry following them.ĭriven by necessity, Ukraine’s military has expanded the role of tanks in combat. ![]() ![]() Russia’s war against Ukraine has demonstrated that all speculations on the end of the tank era have been somewhat premature.
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