Quote (Meanwhile @ Jan 26 2023 05:55pm)
Berlin and Washington gave their fire to the delivery of battle tanks. This new equipment marks a new stage in the armed conflict, and represents a challenge for the Ukrainian general staff and its Western allies.
45 tons for the T-72s, 60 for the German Leopard-2s and American Abrams, 70 for the British Challenger 2s. Course information will of course be classified.
Absolute secrecy for these precious convoys
"A road column is necessarily slower and more detectable. And there has not yet been a major concern for the rail supply of [multiple rocket launchers] HiMars, [guns] Caesar or anti-aircraft defense", estimates Thibault Fouillet , research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research. At this stage, only a few German howitzers were destroyed at the margins.
"The Russian strikes target intra-Ukrainian transport more, especially when it was necessary to move large pieces of artillery to the southern front", underlines Nicolas Gosset. Russian forces have lost their ability to hit moving targets, the expert adds. Above all, "Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses have been gradually reinforced since the beginning of September, with an increasingly robust ecosystem", especially as Patriot systems are expected.
/e source : francetvinfo.fr
They are going to have a very hard time refuelling, maintaining, changing tracks, and fighting the enemy successfully. It's too much tech anyway and too much speed, for newly trained Ukrainian crews. They will get obliterated. Completely untenable combat scenario...
What amazes me is that US regime never has enough money for its dire schools, roads, dams, bridges, healthcare, dental care... where some neighborhoods have standard of living of Somalia. But it always has infinite money for wars, coups, bombings, sanctions, invasions...
Good for Russia. They will have opportunity to see both Abrams and Leopard 2 tank during fight and make improvements in own tanks production. Russia doubled number if own tank factories last year. Military operation in Ukraine will last for a very long time and there will be plenty of time to test resuslts of Russian tank improvements.
Russia is just confident, stoic and also advancing on the front. The Uki's and the west are trying everything, but it just looks like they are helpless against Russia.
In wwii the Sherman tanks defeated the Panzers on the battlefield despite being slower, having less armor and out-gunned because the panzer was a high maintenance gas hog. Shermans often pummeled panzers with rounds until the crews surrendered. No damage was caused but the shock wave inside the panzer was unbearable