Some Of Ukraine’s Heavy Brigades Don’t Have Real Tanks Yet. Here’s How They Might Fight.
Économie Some Of Ukraine‘s Heavy Brigades Don’t Have Real Tanks Yet. Heres How They Might Fight. Il y a 10 secondes Nouvelles Bitcoin Ethereum M-55S. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian army doesnt say no to armored vehicles. Whatever surplus tanks, fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and reconnaissance vehicles some ally offers, the army happily accepts. That has resulted in some weird imbalances as Kyiv reequips brigades for a possible counteroffensive this spring. The army hasnt received the right mix of vehicles to form balanced combined-arms formations. Balanced, that is, by the usual NATO standards. At the moment, the Ukrainians have a bunch of new infantry fighting vehicles as well as lightly-armored tanks that nonetheless have effective main guns. They yet have many of the new heavy tanks that NATO countries have pledged, but which still are winding their way into Ukraine. Luckily for the Ukrainian army, this isnt a new problem. Other armies have pondered it and come up with possible solutions the Ukrainians might internalize. The British Army, for instance, always is one bad budget cycle from having its last few tanks taken away on cost-saving grounds. Analysts have thought through a possible tank-less future and arrived at a simple solution. Replace tanks with missiles. Posssibly the first Ukrainian unit to