https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46633
Iconic Russian massive, WW2-style tank assaults are history. Analysts say Russia is losing tanks far faster than it can build more and that replacement stocks are bare.
The Russian army isn’t making big armored attacks any more and evidence is strong it’s because the Kremlin is losing tanks far faster than it can replace them.
The official Kremlin line contradicts that. The state-run news platform Pravda, for instance, in a November article profiling national tank production, asserted Russia’s armed forces are well-supplied with tanks and more steel behemoths are rolling off production lines every day.
But battlefield accounts from frontline Ukrainian soldiers and combat units tell of a different opponent – a Russian army chronically short of armored vehicles and either running out of tanks, or unwilling to commit the tanks that it has to battle.
The last substantial Russian tank attack with close to 40 armored vehicles took place in early April 2024 in the eastern Avdiivka sector. Elements of Ukraine’s 30th and 47th Mechanized Brigades waited for a tank-tipped column to drive into a minefield and then cut it to pieces with artillery and First Person View (FPV) drones.
Iconic Russian massive, WW2-style tank assaults are history. Analysts say Russia is losing tanks far faster than it can build more and that replacement stocks are bare.
The Russian army isn’t making big armored attacks any more and evidence is strong it’s because the Kremlin is losing tanks far faster than it can replace them.
The official Kremlin line contradicts that. The state-run news platform Pravda, for instance, in a November article profiling national tank production, asserted Russia’s armed forces are well-supplied with tanks and more steel behemoths are rolling off production lines every day.
But battlefield accounts from frontline Ukrainian soldiers and combat units tell of a different opponent – a Russian army chronically short of armored vehicles and either running out of tanks, or unwilling to commit the tanks that it has to battle.
The last substantial Russian tank attack with close to 40 armored vehicles took place in early April 2024 in the eastern Avdiivka sector. Elements of Ukraine’s 30th and 47th Mechanized Brigades waited for a tank-tipped column to drive into a minefield and then cut it to pieces with artillery and First Person View (FPV) drones.